Faberge and the Russian Revolution

An exhibition of objects d’art by Carl Faberge to mark the hundredth anniversary of the 1917 revolution.

Bentley and Skinner’s exhibition ‘’Fabergé and the Russian Revolution’’, an exhibition of objets d’art by Carl Faberge to mark the hundredth anniversary of the 1917 revolution, demonstrates the contrast between the worlds of the Russian Imperial Court and the revolutionary proletariat. The exhibition includes Bentley and Skinner’s collection of Faberge which was created over decades and initiated by John Sheldon, the great uncle of the company’s current Managing Director, Mark Evans. John Sheldon’s Russian father, Leon Schlounde who was to establish gold refineries in South Africa before moving to London, had been a friend of Vladimir Lenin and fled from Moscow to Paris to escape the Tsarist secret police. Who could have guessed that a young Russian communist was behind the establishment of Bentley and Skinner, jewellers By Royal Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who are presenting this exhibition?