• 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.
  • Spherical panoramas of the Amber Room. ... Search historical Amber Room. The beginning of a large project.
  • 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.
  • The Nazis, therefore, reclaimed this treasure and sent the dismantled Amber Room to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia, 1088 km east of Moscow).
  • 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.
  • 1. The Amber Room originated in Prussia. Made of fossilised resin, amber has long been an expensive and sought-after substance.
  • The ultimate fate of the Amber Room, once called the Eighth Wonder of the World, is one of the great mysteries of the art world.
  • 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.