- From the Portrait Hall you can reach the Amber Room, the gem of the Catherine Palace and a sight that has been justifiably called one of the wonders of the world.
- 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.
- Alexander II, said to be an amber connoisseur, used it as a trophy room. The reconstructed Amber Room in Catherine Palace. (giggle/CC BY 3.0).
- The fate of Russia's legendary Amber Room became a mystery after it fell into Nazi hands during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tsarskoselskaya Amber Workshop - an enterprise founded in 1979 and most famous in the world for recreation of the Amber Room for the Catherine Palace.
- Visitors look at the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg, Russia, as the restored chamber was presented to reporters.
- Before the room was lost, it was considered an "Eighth Wonder of the World". Construction of the Amber Room first took place around 1701 in Prussia.
- Because of its unique features and singular beauty, the original Amber Room was sometimes dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.