Decorated Eggs Russian

Russian easter eggs are connected to lots of religious symbolism.

Decorated eggs russian. Some of them painted porcelain eggs for the russian royal family and some decorated papier mache eggs produced in their village. The floral wooden eggs are the most common tradition in russia. Please click on our links to the right to see more choices.

This is one of the reasons that many of the eggs are decorated with flowers that have bloomed. Traditionally the price paid for egg painting was very high for it was considered a kind of easter present to the artist. So decorated pisanki eggs were sold everywhere.

Similarly russia also has a very rich history of decorating easter eggs and painting them different colors. The imperial coronation egg. This egg was formerly known as the spinach jade egg and is made of nephrite gold diamonds and white red green and opaque violet enamel.

The first natural dye was prepared from onion peel by boiling it in water. It rests on a bouquet of twisted gold leaves from which grows five flowers and five buds of pansies enameled in various nuances of violet and set with diamonds. Later easter eggs decoration patterns began to use other colors yellow green blue and black.

Egg decoration took the form of one color krashanky to more complex ukrainian pysanky designed with use of beeswax. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of peter carl fabergé between 1885 and 1917 the most famous being the fifty two imperial eggs forty six of which survive made for the russian tsars alexander iii and nicholas ii as easter gifts for their wives and mothers. The small intricately decorated objets d art which russia s royal house of.

The eggs produced and painted for the royal family were distributed between the crowned. In eastern europe custom of dying easter eggs red representing the blood of christ has been observed throughout centuries. Painting ideas for russian easter eggs decoration natural dyes for orthodox easter eggs decoration.