National Treasures of Russia - The Amber Room The fabled Amber Room was a room that was made entirely of amber; a masterpiece of Baroque art. It was an extravagent gift given to Czar Peter the Great of Russia in 1716 by Frederick Wilhelm I, King of Prussia. Czar Peter of Russia was taken with its opulence and it forged a lavish gesture of friendship between Russia and Germany until the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. After remaining in the possession of Russia until 1941, the Amber Room mysteriously disappeared. What happened to it is not fully known. The amber panels were removed from the room and stored in Novosibirsk. Later, the room was crated up and transported to Kaliningrad. The amber panels were again moved in 1945 at the end of World War II and the rooms trail was lost. Since then the panels have been restored. In the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, the amazingly beautiful, intricately decorated Amber Room was re-opened, following a restoration that had lasted decades. Decorated with artfully assembled pieces of various kinds of amber (including unique amber pictures), restoration of the room has involved successive generations of restorers. Now at last, this masterpiece of the age of Catherine the Great can again be seen by citizens of St. Petersburg and tourists from all over the world.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:54:20 +0000
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