Kollektsiia paskhal'nykh iaits iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii (Easter Eggs from the State Museum of the History of Religion)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2013. pb. In the Orthodox celebration of Easter painted eggs were presented as the giver spoke the Easter greeting, “Christ is risen.” Going back in Russia at least to the seventeenth century, when tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich presented his boyars and close associates with painted eggs..... More