Agathon Carl Theodor Fabergé

[1] Agathon Karlovich was born in 1876; he was educated at the Petrischule in St. Petersburg and at the Commercial Department of Dr. Wiedemann's gymnasium.

Agafon Fabergé spoke five languages and was a company representative at the royal houses of England, Sweden, Norway, and Siam.

Following the birth of the couple's fourth son in 1907, his father presented Agafon a country estate (known as Dacha Fabergé [ru]) that included a two-store wooden main house, in Levashovo, near St. Petersburg.

Contemporaries called the estate the “Small Hermitage”, due to its decoration with antique furniture, carpets and tapestries, porcelain and bronze, prints, icons, miniatures and sculptures.

[citation needed] In the late 1920’s, the officials involved Faberge in an urgent secret work — evaluation of a large lot of diamonds.

Having learned that the Bolsheviks brought “buckets” of diamonds, they decided to bring down the price and refused to buy the stones.

A trade representative telegraphed Lenin that the experts deliberately overstated the price, and it was impossible to sell the stones.

After some time, the authorities learned about his connections with the staff of the Finnish diplomatic mission and decided to make him their agent.

Fersman helped him; he invited him to work in the commission to study production forces of Russia at the Academy of Sciences.