The Fabergé Imperial Eggs are renowned for their dazzling beauty, intricate craftsmanship, and extraordinary value.

Within the decade, the tsar would be dead and Imperial Russia on its way to becoming the Soviet Union. Left: Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (right, front) and two men in Cossak dress seated on the ground.

Much as they oppose Russia’s war, they fear that the law will erase Odesa’s character. “You can’t remove Babel,” said Antonina Poletti, 41, the editor of a local news outlet and a sixth ...