It is rare in terms of degree and technological level, and once had the reputation of "the eighth wonder of the world".
In order to show goodwill to Russia and strengthen the military alliance between the two countries, Frederick I decided to give the Amber Room to Peter the Great of Russia in 17 16. 17 17, the amber room was delivered to St. Petersburg, Russia. Later, this art treasure valued at 6.5438+0.5 million pounds was transported to Catherine Palace in Tsar Village (later renamed Pushkin City) on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
After Germany invaded the former Soviet Union, craftsmen at Catherine Palace planned to cover the amber room with gauze and fake wallpaper. However, the Germans who captured the palace saw through the disguise, demolished the amber room and transported it to Germany. It is known that the Germans once collected the amber hall in Konigsberg, East Prussia, but no one knows its whereabouts since then. Over the past 60 years, people have made various speculations and tried their best to find it, but the Amber Room has never been seen. The legendary Amber Hall has become one of the most important missing works of art in the world.
People were full of expectations, hoping that this artistic treasure would wait for the call of the world in an unknown place. Just last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attended the unveiling ceremony of the replica of Catherine Palace Amber Room. A booklet distributed at the ceremony declared that the Amber Room was "not destroyed". After proper organized search, it will eventually be recovered. " However, the newly released evidence shows that people's hopes have been dashed: the Amber Room has been destroyed in the chaos after the collapse of Nazi Germany. The researchers found these unpublished documents in the hands of Anatoly Kuzumov, who was the head of the Soviet Union's search for the Amber Room after the war.
According to the archives, the Amber Room was once collected in a castle in Konigsberg. 1946, Kuzumov learned from a staff member in the castle that the hall where the Amber Room was located had been destroyed by fire after the Soviet Union occupied the castle. For various reasons, Kuzumov did not mention this matter in his report to the government. However, Russian officials seem to have accepted this fact. "It's gone forever," said Mikhail Piote Rovsky, curator of the hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. It's dead and destroyed. The Amber Room was buried in a fire hole in Konigsberg. "