- As the forces moved into Pushkin, officials and curators of the Catherine Palace attempted to disassemble and hide the Amber Room.
- Kuchumov found ashes and bits of amber panels in one of the castle’s chambers, but he wasn’t convinced it was the remains of the Amber Room.
- 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.
- Pensioner Karl-Heinz Kleine believes that he knows the location of the Amber Room and who hid it there.
- The Amber room obtained its final appearance in 1770, when Catherine II decided to make some changes to it.
- Thus, Frederick William presented the Amber Room to Peter in 1716 in order to cement the newly-formed Prussian-Russian alliance against Sweden.
- After years of reworking, Empress Elizabeth decided the Amber Room should be installed at the Catherine Palace, where the Russian Imperial family often spent...
- The Amber Room was the most beautiful and elaborate artistic creation in amber that the world had ever known.
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- The Amber Room was once the jewel of the Romanov’s luxurious summer residence and was covered in amber, gems, and gold leaf from floor to ceiling.