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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.
- 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.
- A symbol of both Russian and German greatness, the Amber Room was the pride and joy of the House of Romanov.
- 1. The Amber Room originated in Prussia. Made of fossilised resin, amber has long been an expensive and sought-after substance.
- 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.
- Construction of the Amber Room began in 1701. It was originally installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the first King of Prussia.
- Called, fittingly enough, the Amber Room, the chamber had been created in Prussia in the early 16th century and was later given to Russia’s Czar Peter the Great.
- After the death of the Queen the creation of the amber panels was stopped and the amber room in the Palace of Litzenburg was never established.
- Because of its unique features and singular beauty, the original Amber Room was sometimes dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.
- 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.
