gold

State Hermitage Museum

10 masterpieces of the Hermitage’s ‘Gold Room’ (PHOTOS)

Matryoshka

10 amazing jewelry items made in the Russian Style (PHOTOS)

National Numismatic Collection/National Museum of American History; Elif68 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

9 unusual coins from tsarist times (PHOTOS)

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Getty Images; State Historical Museum; Faberge Museum; Russian Museum)

How a serf became a goldsmith to the Romanov family