At the opposite side of the egg, a miniature portrait of the tsarevich Alexei is revealed from behind a silver St. George medal depicting Nicholas II, when a button is also depressed.

Made during World War I, the Order of St. George egg commemorates the Order of St. George that was awarded to Emperor Nicholas and his son, the Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaievich.

[1] The Dowager Empress took the Order of St. George egg with her when she traveled to Kiev in May 1916, thus avoiding the October Revolution.

The Russian Provisional Government forced her to travel to the Crimea from where she fled in 1919 on board HMS Marlborough.

The Order of St. George egg was inherited by Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia and after her death in 1960 was sold at Sotheby's for the equivalent of $30,910 to the Fabergé Company.