In 1934, a New York collector bought a Fabergé figure tied to Russia’s imperial court; nearly 80 years later it resurfaced in a family attic and sold at auction for a record $5.2 million
A tiny figurine connected to Russia’s last imperial family spent nearly eight decades hidden from public view before emerging from a New York attic and selling for $5.2 million at auction. The hardstone figure, created by the Fabergé workshop in 1912, depicts Nikolai N. Pustynnikov, a personal Cossack bodyguard to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of…