• Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931. Autochrome of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, 1917. Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003.
  • The Amber Room would undergo several other renovations and additions throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, with modern historians estimating the room’s...
  • Creation of the Amber Room began in 1701 after being conceptualised and designed by Andreas Schlüter for Sophia Charlotte, the second wife of Frederick 1st...
  • Bu sayfanın açıklaması webmaster tarafindan gizlenmiştir.
  • A symbol of both Russian and German greatness, the Amber Room was the pride and joy of the House of Romanov.
  • After extensive and thorough research, British investigative journalists Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy concluded in their 2004 book The Amber Room...
  • The Amber Room first began to take shape in the workshop of Andreas Schlüter, court architect to Frederick I, the father of the aforementioned artistically...
  • The Amber Room was constructed for King Frederick I of Prussia in Danzig (modern-day Gdansk, Poland) between 1701 and 1714.
  • However, because the dried and fragile amber crumbled, they instead decided to disguise it by placing wallpaper over the panels to make it look like an ordinary room.
  • In four years 450 kilogrammes of amber were used in this work and by 1770 the creation of the Amber Room was complete.