Editing Peter Carl Fabergé (section)

===End of the House of Fabergé===
[[File:Petersburg German architects (31).jpg|thumb|The main Fabergé store in [[Saint Petersburg]] was officially renamed Yakhont (Ruby) and still is known as the Fabergé store.]]
Following the outbreak of war in 1914, the firm submitted proposals for wartime production and received a response the following year, following which production began on military orders, which continued until the [[October Revolution]] in 1917.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}} In 1916, the House of Fabergé became a [[joint-stock company]] under the name C.&nbsp;Fabergé, with a fixed capital of three million rubles.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}}

As a result of the revolution, the business was run by a Committee of Employees, which managed the firm until 1918, when the workshops were closed by Fabergé,<ref name="Grove"/> who then left the country after officials of the new government asked him to close the business.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}} Fabergé reportedly asked for ten minutes to collect his belongings before leaving.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}} The great majority of jewels were destroyed following the revolution.<ref name="Habsburg"/>

Fabergé died at the Hotel Bellevue in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, on 24 September 1920.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}} He had escaped Russia in September 1918 under disguise as a courier with the British legation.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}} His family believed he died of a broken heart.<ref>The Genius of Carl Faberge, Episode Two, 25 August 2018 BBC World News</ref> His wife, Augusta, died in 1925. The two were reunited in 1929 when Eugène Fabergé took his father's remains from Lausanne and buried them in his mother's grave at the [[Cimetière du Grand Jas]] in [[Cannes]], France.{{sfn|Lowes|McCanless|2001|p=198}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. |date=19 August 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7 |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>