Naum Nikolaevsky was arrested in Moscow in 1969. The stonecutter sold Fabergé to foreign diplomats - but the Fabergé was his own.

During the arrest, they seized a coachman, a troika, two hippos, a cat, and a golden samovar with black wooden handles.

Emigrated writer Yuri Brokhin dedicated a chapter to him in the book "Hustling on Gorky Street" (1975). The chapter was titled "Heir to Fabergé." The heir, after serving time, ended up in New York. In Brooklyn, he gathered a crew of Russian craftsmen and started everything anew - matchmakers, coachmen, merchants, Cossacks, the same "Russian types" that carved on Bolshaya Morskaya before the revolution. Stone, gold settings, stamps. In 1981, his brother-in-law Vasily Konovalenko, a first-rate stonecutter, came and worked alongside him.

Géza von Habsburg from Christie’s called them "Brooklyn forgers" and said their items surfaced everywhere - from eBay to auction houses. In February 1996, at the "Fabergé in America" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, he placed a display of thirty fakes next to four hundred originals and introduced the term fauxbergé - "falsebergé." The market, by his estimate, was flooded with tens of thousands of Brooklyn trinkets.

Once in Geneva, a man came to him with a cigarette case and a stone matchmaker. The cigarette case was authentic, said the expert, while the matchmaker was Nikolaevsky's work. The guest left without blinking. That was Nikolaevsky.

Leningrad was doing the same. Mikhail Monastyrsky, a restorer at the Hermitage, gathered an underground workshop of masters from "Russian Gems" and stamped the marks himself. His obsidian horse stood in the showcase of the Armory until 1988. Four convictions, twenty years of sentences - and a mandate from the LDPR in the State Duma. He died in France.