Decorated Eggs Russian
The floral wooden eggs are the most common tradition in russia.
Decorated eggs russian. The eggs produced and painted for the royal family were distributed between the crowned. Lots of these eggs are handcrafted pieces that are exquisite in detail. For over a century the name faberge has evoked wealth opulence and the world s most extravagant easter eggs.
In eastern europe custom of dying easter eggs red representing the blood of christ has been observed throughout centuries. The first natural dye was prepared from onion peel by boiling it in water. A fabergé egg is a jewelled egg created by the house of fabergé in saint petersburg russian empire.
So decorated pisanki eggs were sold everywhere. Some were even painted by icon painters that s how important the tradition was for the russian people. Initially the orthodox easter eggs were red orange and light brown.
Easter eggs were placed in the so called red corner the most important and honorable part of the house where the home iconostasis was. Rodina russian folk art has selected some of the most beautiful examples of handcrafted easter eggs either on wood or blown glass for egg collectors and your easter gift giving. It represents new life and the renewing of the spirit.
Egg decoration took the form of one color krashanky to more complex ukrainian pysanky designed with use of beeswax. The art of decorating the pysanka eggs is associated with the beginning of spring the joyful holiday of easter and the soul searching season of fasting and preparation for the holy day of easter. Later easter eggs decoration patterns began to use other colors yellow green blue and black.
Some of them painted porcelain eggs for the russian royal family and some decorated papier mache eggs produced in their village. In russian culture eggs are an important symbol of easter symbolizing new life and revival. Similarly russia also has a very rich history of decorating easter eggs and painting them different colors.
