Also no fucking wonder they had a revolution immediately after all these things were made, it seems like the Romanovs were spending the entire country’s gdp on these god damn decorations. The whole exhibit felt like
Food for peasants $200
Working conditions $150
Military $800
Fancy Egg™ $1.2 billion
Utilities $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family dying (they’re being killed by revolutionaries)
Reading about these fucking eggs and I didn't realize that like 90% of them were exclusively made for the imperial families, these fucking things literally weren't even for regular obscenely rich aristocrats but just one family, absolutely obscene.
Edit: Also they were making SEVERAL of these a year during fucking WW1, including one to commemorate that the hemophilic tsar child that was in mortal peril every time he tripped and fell, was given the highest military decoration of the Russian empire, alongside his moron dad.
Disgusting bullshit.