Background
Fabergé, a Baltic German, was born in the city of Pernau (now Pärnu) in Livonia (present-day Estonia). His father, the artisan Pierre Favry (later Fabrier) moved to the Baltic province of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire.
Fabergé, a Baltic German, was born in the city of Pernau (now Pärnu) in Livonia (present-day Estonia). His father, the artisan Pierre Favry (later Fabrier) moved to the Baltic province of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire.
Pierre had moved there by 1800 from the German city of Schwedt am Oder. Peter Carl Fabergé was initially educated in Street St. Petersburg. Peter Carl continued his education in Dresden.
A second son, Agathon, was born to the couple two years later.
In 1864 Peter Carl Fabergé embarked upon a Grand Tour of Europe. He received tuition from respected goldsmiths in Germany, France and England, attended a course at Schloss’s Commercial College in Paris and viewed the objects in the galleries of Europe’s leading museums.
Foreign the following 10 years, his father’s trusted workmaster Hiskias Pendin acted as his mentor and tutor. Gustav Fabergé monument was opened in Pärnu on January 3, 2015 in the year of the bicentenary of his birth.
Composition authors Alexander Tenzo and Vladislav Yakovsky.
Sculptor Eugeny Burkov. The statue was mounted with support of the City Government of Pärnu and Pärnu Fabergé Society represented by Tiina Ojaste and Toomas Kuter.