“Today we are already able to picture how the legendary Amber Room looked like”, - German Minister of Culture and Mass Media Julian Nida-Rumellin said (restoration of the Amber Room is being carried out with German assistance).

To remind, the unique amber cabinet was created in the beginning of the 18th century by German masters by order of the Prussian king Fredrick I and was indented to decorate one of the rooms in the Royal palace in Berlin. However, after the death of the monarch works on three mosaic panels of the “sun stone” stopped, and yet unfinished masterpiece was sent to the German Zeichhuas for storage. In 1716 the new king Fredrick-Wilgelm I presented it to the Russian Emperor Peter I. Much later, by 1770, the mosaic panels were placed in the summer residence of Russian monarchs in Tsarskoye Selo (the town Pushkin nowadays) and supplemented with new details. During the World War II the amber panels were removed from the Ekaterininsky Palace and they still cannot be found.

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