- 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 existed in this final form from 1763 untill 1941 and only a few had the pleasure to be able to see it.
- Following numerous 18th-century adjustments, the room glowed with over 6 tons of amber and other gemstones, covering an area of about 18 square feet.
- Based on some testimonies, a few searchers became convinced that pieces of The Amber Room were hidden in Hartenstein hills that are located near Dresden.
- In four years 450 kilogrammes of amber were used in this work and by 1770 the creation of the Amber Room was complete.
- As the forces moved into Pushkin, officials and curators of the Catherine Palace attempted to disassemble and hide the Amber Room.
- After discovering the amber in the palace’s cellars, Schluter conceived the idea of using it to create an entire room made of the precious substance.
- Tsarskoselskaya Amber Workshop - an enterprise founded in 1979 and most famous in the world for recreation of the Amber Room for the Catherine Palace.
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- The Amber Room was the most beautiful and elaborate artistic creation in amber that the world had ever known.