- The Amber Room was intended in 1701 for the Charlottenburg Palace, in Berlin, Prussia, but was eventually installed at the Berlin City Palace.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Amber Room was never seen again, though reports have occasionally surfaced stating that components of the Amber Room survived the war.
- 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.
- 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.
- Because of its unique features and singular beauty, the original Amber Room was sometimes dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.
- 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.