Today on May 30, 2012 Google is celebrating the birthday of Peter Carl Fabergé (30 May 1846 – September 24, 1920). Today it would have been his 166th Birthday. Who was Peter Carl Fabergé If you look at the Google Doodle it is easy to guess more or less what the doodle is about. The Google display Gold, Diamonds, Precious metals and gemstones decorated eggs. These eggs are commonly referred to as “Fabergé Eggs” or “Fabergé Easter Eggs”. “Image of the Peter Carl Fabergé’s 166th Birthday Google Doodle May 30, 2012″ Peter Carl Fabergé was born in Russia in Saint Petersburg, his father German and his mother from Danish descent. His family tree can also be traced back to France where his paternal ancestors were Huguenots, originally from La Bouteille, Picardy, who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, first to Germany near Berlin, then in 1800 to the Baltic province of Livonia, then part of Russia. It is believed that Peter Carl Fabergé studied at the Dre