Carrying a portrait of Ukrainian artist Alla Horska at her funeral, poet Vasyl Stus, who would himself perish in a Russian labor camp 15 years later, did not shy away from calling her death a murder.

A rare Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before the revolution is going up for auction. Christie’s says the Winter Egg is valued at more than 20 million pounds, or $26.4 ...