• Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931. Autochrome of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, 1917. Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003.
  • With the Russians now possessing the Amber Room, it was installed in the Winter House in St Petersburg where it stayed for a further 30 years.
  • Königsberg was destroyed by allied bombers in 1944 and all documentation of the room stops here, the original Amber Room lost to history and never seen again.
  • In November 1941 the Amber Room was looted by the Nazi soldiers and taken to Konigsberg where it was until the spring of 1945.
  • The Nazis, therefore, reclaimed this treasure and sent the dismantled Amber Room to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia, 1088 km east of Moscow).
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  • Construction of the Amber Room began in 1701. It was originally installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the first King of Prussia.
  • The meandering history of the Amber Room took it from Berlin to Russia to Königsberg, and then its ultimate fate became a mystery that has never been solved.
  • The soldiers have left and the famous Amber Room has left with them. A detail from the 21st-century Amber Room reconstruction at Catherine Palace.
  • Its fate is one of the greatest mysteries of WWII. The Amber Room dated back to 1701 when German baroque sculptor Andreas Schlüter began work on it.