Easter Eggs Trivia Quiz

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Alexander III was the Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, known for his reactionary policies that reversed some of his father Alexander II's reforms.

Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928) was a Danish princess who became the Empress of Russia as the wife of Emperor Alexander III. After her husband's death, she was the mother of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II. She survived the Russian Revolution, escaping to Europe where she lived the rest of her life in exile before her death in Denmark.

In the Russian Orthodox tradition, exchanging decorated eggs is a long-standing Easter custom symbolizing new life and Christ's resurrection. People exchange elaborately painted eggs, often inscribed with "Christ has risen", as a gesture of friendship and love.

The Russian crown, officially the Great Imperial Crown, is a large, ornate headpiece made in 1762 for Catherine the Great. It consists of two silver hemispheres, a diamond-studded arch, and is covered in 4,936 diamonds, 75 pearls, and topped with a large, red spinel at the apex where a cross sits. Weighing nearly 2 kg, it was the official symbol of Russian imperial power from its creation until the monarchy's abolition in 1917, and is now housed in the Moscow Kremlin's Diamond Fund.

Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia, reigning from 1894 until his abdication in 1917 during the February Revolution. A stubborn supporter of autocracy, his reign was marked by military defeats in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, and growing public discontent, culminating in the Russian Revolution. He and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg in July 1918.

Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Empress of Russia, was the wife of Tsar Nicholas II and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her life is defined by her passionate devotion to her family, particularly her son Alexei's haemophilia, which led her to seek out and become deeply influenced by the mystic Grigori Rasputin.

The Imperial Constellation Egg was the last Imperial Fabergé egg commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II for his wife Alexandra Feodorovna in 1917, but it was never completed due to the Russian Revolution. The unfinished egg consists of two halves of blue glass, a clockwork mechanism, and is decorated with diamonds, intended to represent the night sky.

The names of the eggs mostly reflected Russian history and had names such as "Peter the Great", "Memory of Azov", Order of St. George", "Alexander Palace", "Mosaic", or "Coronation". For example, the "Peter the Great" egg was created in 1903 on the 200th anniversary of the building of St. Peterburg. It was made using gold, in various colours, platinum, and rubies. It featured four paintings showing scenes from the Palace. The surprise inside was a miniature Peter the Great's monument on the Neva.