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- Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931. Autochrome of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, 1917. Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003.
- A symbol of both Russian and German greatness, the Amber Room was the pride and joy of the House of Romanov.
- 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.
- 1. The Amber Room originated in Prussia. Made of fossilised resin, amber has long been an expensive and sought-after substance.
- Because of its unique features and singular beauty, the original Amber Room was sometimes dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.
- 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.
- The Amber Room was intended in 1701 for the Charlottenburg Palace, in Berlin, Prussia, but was eventually installed at the Berlin City Palace.
- Due to amber being a very fragile material towards temperature and humidity changes, the Amber Room had to be restored several times in 1800s.
- 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.
- The fate of Russia's legendary Amber Room became a mystery after it fell into Nazi hands during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
