Freddy Novelo

Alfredo Novelo, better known as Freddy Novelo (b. February 29, 1960 d. May 29, 2013 in Merida, Mexico) is a philanthropist and art collector.

He is the youngest Fabergé collector in the world and owner of the largest Russian Imperial collection (1613-1918) in Latin America and one of the 10 most important Fabergé collections in the world. Novelo has received honorable awards worldwide for his philanthropic works and is the first American to receive the “Imperial Romanoff Order” (Romanov) and is an honorary cathedratic in art history for the State University of Human Sciences in Russia