Agathon Fabergé
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Agathon Fabergé - jeweler, art collector, son of the famous jewelry master Peter Karl Gustavovich Fabergé, creator of Fabergé eggs. World's famous philatelist. He was the brother of Aleksandrine Caroline Koschke, Wilhelmine Charlotte Nicolay, Carl Fabergé and Agatha Emilie Fabergé. He joined his father's house of Fabergé in 1892.
From 1887 to 1892, he studied at the German Petri-Schule in St. Petersburg and at the commercial branch of the Wiedemann gymnasium. In May 1895, he entered into his father’s business at Fabergé. 1900s - 1910s, he led the affairs of the company with his father and brother Evgeny Karlovich. In 1897 he married the daughter of the Riga merchant Lydia Treiberg.
Since 1898 –an expert at the Diamond Room of the Winter Palace, an appraiser of the Loan Fund, an appraiser of His Imperial Majesty.
Following the results of the exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was awarded a gold medal. Agathon did't have enough money and was unjustly accused by his father of stealing, after which their relationship ended and Agathon left Russia.
In 1907, he received a gift from his father dacha in Levashovo (now in ruins). Initially, it was an unremarkable house until the time when the architect Karl Schmidt began to work on a two-story cottage project. The building of the summer dacha became the decoration of the district. Three glass ceilings, a winter garden where peaches and flowers were grown, a marble staircase, Dutch tiled stoves, hall rooms, made in the styles of different historical periods. In addition to this, there was water heating, a private power station.
In 1916, his father was unjustly accusing Agathon of large embezzlement of the company’s money, after which their relationship ended (only after several years, the former employee of the company Otto Bauer admitted that he was the one who took large amount of money). Agathon opened an antique store with his friend and partner in art business A.K. Rudanovsky.
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Agathon Fabergé had good relations with K.K.Schmidt famous Russian collector and philatelist.