The celebrated Fabergé workshops created exquisite jewelled Easter eggs for the Russian Imperial Court.

Although the House of Fabergé is famed for its Imperial Easter eggs, it made many more objects ranging from silver tableware to fine jewelry.

The most famous eggs produced by the House were the larger ones made for Alexander III and Nicholas II of Russia ; these are often referred to as the ' Imperial ' Fabergé eggs.

* 1885 Hen-The First Hen Egg or Jeweled Hen Egg is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, the first in a series of fifty-four jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

* 1886 Hen with Sapphire Pendant-The Hen with Sapphire Pendant Egg or Egg with Hen in Basket is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one in a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

* 1887 Blue Serpent Clock-The Blue Serpent Clock Egg is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

This is the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs to feature a clock, and is a design that Fabergé copied for his Duchess of Marlborough Egg in 1902.

* 1888 Cherub with Chariot-The Cherub with Chariot Egg or Angel with Egg in Chariot is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

This is one of the lost Imperial eggs, so few details are known about it.

* 1889 Nécessaire-The Nécessaire Egg is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

The egg is one of the lost Imperial eggs.

* 1890 Danish Palaces-The Danish Palaces Egg is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family.

Of the 50 known Imperial eggs, 42 have survived.

Of the eight lost Imperial eggs, photographs exist of only two, the 1903 Royal Danish, and the 1909 Alexander III Commemorative eggs.

Between 1930 and 1933, 14 Imperial eggs left Russia.

Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service primarily operating the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service flying the Nakajima Ki-27 and the Nakajima Ki-43, initially enjoyed great success, as these fighters generally had better range, maneuverability, speed and climb rates than their Allied counterparts.

There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.

It managed much of the kabuki in Tokyo and, among other properties, the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater and the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo ; Toho and Shochiku enjoyed a duopoly over theaters in Tokyo for many years.

The recent counts had governed with a light hand, and the nobilities and cities ( three of which, Marseille, Arles, and Avignon were Imperial cities technically separate from the county ) had enjoyed great liberties.

The Imperial family was one that thoroughly enjoyed music.

In the late period of the Roman Empire, after the adoption of the oriental royal court model by the Emperors Diocletian and Constantine, Emperors were surrounded by eunuchs for such functions as bathing, hair cutting, dressing, and bureaucratic functions, in effect acting as a shield between the Emperor and his administrators from physical contact, enjoyed great influence in the Imperial Court ( see Eusebius and Eutropius ).

Within the transalpine part of the Holy Roman Empire the Free Imperial Cities enjoyed a considerable autonomy, buttressed legally by the Lübeck law which was emulated by many other cities.

Some princely families in Imperial Russia also enjoyed this style.

In the Holy Roman Empire, a Free Imperial City ( Freie Reichsstadt ) was a self-ruling city that enjoyed Imperial immediacy, and as such, was subordinate only to the emperor, as opposed to a territorial city or town ( Landstadt ) which was subordinate to a territorial lord-such as a lay prince ( duke, margrave, count, etc.

Of the approximately 4000 urban settlements of the Empire-with over nine-tenth having fewer than 1000 inhabitants around 1600-fewer than 200 enjoyed the status of Free Imperial City during the late Middle Ages, in some cases only for a few decades.

Unlike the Free Imperial Cities, the second category of towns and cities-the territorial cities-were subject to a lay or ecclesiastical lord, and while many of them enjoyed self-rule to varying degrees, this was a precarious privilege which might be curtailed or abolished according to the will of the lord.

They also enjoyed a swing through the Far East, being cordially received at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo by the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

As a member of this organization, Chōmei enjoyed benefits that would otherwise not have been given to him, including visits to the Imperial Garden to view the cherry blossoms in bloom.

Aspurgus adopted the Imperial Roman names " Tiberius Julius " when he received Roman citizenship and enjoyed the patronage of the first two Roman Emperors, Augustus and Tiberius.

These parties had enjoyed an uneasy relationship with the Imperial government since Bismarck's era in the 1870s and 1880s.

The brothers enjoyed a lengthy, close friendship with John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who was primarily responsible for their establishment in the Imperial Service of Austria.

Rulers of Imperial States enjoyed precedence over other subjects in the Empire.

Imperial States enjoyed several rights and privileges.

Under the Russian rule, the left-bank Ukraine initially enjoyed a degree of autonomy within the Tsardom ( from 1721, Imperial Russia ) as the Cossack Hetmanate, which was slowly withdrawn throughout the eighteenth century when the Zaporizhian Host was destroyed.

The Prince-Bishop of Liège, member of the Imperial estates, enjoyed Imperial immediacy and therefore could negotiate and sign international treaties on his own, as long as they were not directed against the Emperor and the Empire.

The Tigrean nobility retained influence at the Imperial court of Menelik and his successors, although not at the level they enjoyed under Yohannes IV.

With these records and the Empire's universal right of appeal, Imperial authorities probably had a great deal of power to enforce behavior standards for their judges.

Between 1855 and 1867, an outpouring of great Verdi operas followed, among them such repertory staples as Un ballo in maschera ( 1859 ), La forza del destino ( commissioned by the Imperial Theatre of Saint Petersburg for 1861 but not performed until 1862 ), and a revised version of Macbeth ( 1865 ).

Both the Imperial and U. S. definitions of the nautical mile were based on the Clarke ( 1866 ) Spheroid: they were different approximations to the length of one minute of arc along a great circle of a sphere having the same surface area as the Clarke Spheroid.

The Imperial Guard withdraws, defeated, amid great consternation.

* Imperial forces assault the Taiping capital of Nanking in the last great battle of the civil war.

Bonaparte remarked that care should be taken to preserve personal freedoms, especially when the case was before the Imperial Court: " these courts would have a great strength, they should be prohibited from abusing this situation against weak citizen without connections.

Maria Theresa, as a woman, was perceived as weak, and other rulers ( such as Charles Albert of Bavaria ) put forward their own competing claims to the crown as male heirs with a clear genealogical basis to inherit the elected dignities of the great Imperial title.

At the peace conference between Imperial Japan and Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang, the ambassadors at the negotiation desk of Qing Dynasty, originally did not plan to split Taiwan away from the Mainland because they also realised Taiwan ’ s great location for trading with the West.

In the film's climactic battle, the Rebellion destroys the second Death Star and a great portion of the Imperial Navy's highest-ranking officers.

Despite his humble origins, he showed great ability in running the affairs of state, leading a revival of Imperial power and to a renaissance of Byzantine art.

One of the first acts of Leo VI as ruling emperor was to rebury, with great ceremony, the remains of Michael III in the Imperial mausoleum within the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

With Imperial forces threatening to totally dominate the Empire and with Spanish troops firmly settled on the western bank of the Rhine, great Habsburg armies had almost completely surrounded France's frontiers.

The Emperor was buried with great fast in the Imperial Crypt, resting place of the majority of Habsburgs.

He began a series of experiments over the next years with great success, which he demonstrated at the Imperial Court in Vienna.

During the latter part of the First World War the legend of Australians being great soldiers was entrenched as the Australian Imperial Force was used as the shock troops of the British Empire forces.

By 1916, after the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were forced to concede that the Imperial German Navy's surface fleet could not challenge the strength of the Royal Navy on the high seas, so great faith was placed in the U-Boat to strangle British supply lines in the Atlantic.

The town was given the name of Caesaromagus ( the market place of Caesar ), although the reason for it being given the great honour of bearing the Imperial prefix is now unclear – possibly as a failed ' planned town ' provincial capital to replace Londinium or Camulodunum.

Among the Zinzendorf ancestors was the Emperor Maximillian I. Zinzendorf's great grandfather was made an Imperial Count.

It is classed as one of the world's great urban parks, along with Bois de Boulogne in Paris, the Imperial Gardens in Tokyo and Central Park in New York City.

He showed great valor in the battlefields and was regarded as one of the most valiant and respectable Chinese generals by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

After the grand opening on 25 June 1526 with processions of princes and envoys to the cathedral and the ceremonious high mass, and after two months of much deliberation, the Diet decided upon matters which happened to be of great importance for Speyer: the Imperial Regiment and the Imperial Chamber Court ( Reichskammergericht ), next to the Emperor the highest ranking representatives of state power, were both moved to Speyer the following year.