Feodor Rückert

Kovsh by Rückert, 1899–1908, from the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World

Feodor Ivanovich Rückert, Friedrich Moritz Rückert, silver- and goldsmith of German origin, Fabergé workmaster. Born in France in Alsace in 1840.

He worked with Carl Fabergé from 1887. His mark Ф.Р. (F.R. in Russian Cyrillic) can be found on cloisonné enamel objects made in Moscow, sold independently or by Fabergé. He died in Moscow in 1917.

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• H.C. Bainbridge, Peter Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court (1966)
• G.von Habsburg-Lothringen & A.von Solodkoff, Fabergé - Court Jeweler to the Tsars (1979) ISBN 0-914427-09-1
• М.М. Постникова-Лосева, Н.Г.П. Платонова, Б.Л. Ульяноа, ЗОЛОТОЕ И СЕРЕБРЯНОЕ ДЕЛО XV-XX вв. (2003)