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The Amber Room (7 photos)
Amber Room was created by master Gottfried Tussauds for the Prussian king Friedrich I. In the 1717's his son, King Frederick William I prepodnёs office to Peter I as a gift. Peter appreciated gift: "Got preizryadny Present ..." - he wrote to his wife Catherine. Amber room packed with great caution was taken to St. Petersburg in 1717.
In 1743 Empress Elizabeth asked the master Alexander Martelli, under the supervision of chief architect Rastrelli "correct" account. And in 1770, under the supervision of Rastrelli's office is transformed into the famous Amber Room of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, significantly increasing in size and luxury. And so much so that it is still sometimes referred to as "the eighth wonder of the world."
Sudden changes in temperature, furnace heating and drafts destroyed amber piece. The restoration was carried out in 1833, 1865, 1893-1897, 1933-1935, respectively. Serious restoration was planned for 1941.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War museum values of the Catherine Palace were taken to Novosibirsk. Amber Chamber decided not to touch because of its fragility, made its preservation in situ. Panels plastered paper first, then the gauze and cotton. This was a fatal mistake which has predetermined the tragic fate of the masterpiece, as the Germans, robbed Catherine Palace and Amber Room stolen.
From 1942 to the spring of 1944 it was exhibited for review at the Royal Castle of Koenigsberg. In August 1944, as a result of the massive British air raid there was a fire, but it is believed that the panel is not affected, a room packed and hidden in the dungeons of the castle. Boxes with the panels were stored in the cellars of the castle until the beginning of the storming of the city by Soviet troops.
After the assault by Soviet troops Konigsberg in April 1945, the Amber Room had disappeared. Her subsequent fate is still a mystery. The search for the Amber Room, organized immediately after the war, have failed. At first thought, it was burned in the ruins of the Koenigsberg castle, but from 1946 increasingly began to express opinions that the Amber Room survived the fire. Many hypotheses have been put forward, where it can now be from Koenigsberg to Coburg, from salt mines in East Germany before the secret vaults and American bank safes. Even assumed that the Amber Room was on Marinesco sunk ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", or transmitted to the United States by way of reparations cruiser "Prinz Eugen".
Since 1979, Russian experts specially created "Tsarskoye Selo Amber Workshop" worked on the reconstruction of the missing treasures. The 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg (2003), she recovered in full from the Kaliningrad amber.
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In 1743 Empress Elizabeth asked the master Alexander Martelli, under the supervision of chief architect Rastrelli "correct" account. And in 1770, under the supervision of Rastrelli's office is transformed into the famous Amber Room of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, significantly increasing in size and luxury. And so much so that it is still sometimes referred to as "the eighth wonder of the world."
Sudden changes in temperature, furnace heating and drafts destroyed amber piece. The restoration was carried out in 1833, 1865, 1893-1897, 1933-1935, respectively. Serious restoration was planned for 1941.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War museum values of the Catherine Palace were taken to Novosibirsk. Amber Chamber decided not to touch because of its fragility, made its preservation in situ. Panels plastered paper first, then the gauze and cotton. This was a fatal mistake which has predetermined the tragic fate of the masterpiece, as the Germans, robbed Catherine Palace and Amber Room stolen.
From 1942 to the spring of 1944 it was exhibited for review at the Royal Castle of Koenigsberg. In August 1944, as a result of the massive British air raid there was a fire, but it is believed that the panel is not affected, a room packed and hidden in the dungeons of the castle. Boxes with the panels were stored in the cellars of the castle until the beginning of the storming of the city by Soviet troops.
After the assault by Soviet troops Konigsberg in April 1945, the Amber Room had disappeared. Her subsequent fate is still a mystery. The search for the Amber Room, organized immediately after the war, have failed. At first thought, it was burned in the ruins of the Koenigsberg castle, but from 1946 increasingly began to express opinions that the Amber Room survived the fire. Many hypotheses have been put forward, where it can now be from Koenigsberg to Coburg, from salt mines in East Germany before the secret vaults and American bank safes. Even assumed that the Amber Room was on Marinesco sunk ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", or transmitted to the United States by way of reparations cruiser "Prinz Eugen".
Since 1979, Russian experts specially created "Tsarskoye Selo Amber Workshop" worked on the reconstruction of the missing treasures. The 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg (2003), she recovered in full from the Kaliningrad amber.
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