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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Amazing Room in the Amazing Palace - 60-year hunt for Russian Czars' missing Amber Room may be over after discovery in Germany

60-year hunt for Russian Czars' missing Amber Room may be over after discovery in Germany | Mail Online

23rd March 2011

The hunt for the missing Amber Room of the Czars has taken a new twist with treasure hunters in a small town in east Germany about to break into a bunker they believe may hold one of the lost wonders of the modern world.

The priceless room which once belonged the the King of Prussia Peter the Great was looted by Nazis during WWII and the original wallas have been missing ever since.

But now Matthias Gluba, a civil engineer and hobby historian, has triggered the new frenzy after researching wartime records of the town of Auerswalde near Chemnitz.

Auerswalde was the place where Hitler built the two biggest guns in history - Dora and Gustav - both mighty railway mounted monsters capable of hurling shells weighing tons.

As he probed into the history of the cannons he discovered plans for secret underground workings.

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Then he found details of clandestine shipments from the city of Koenigsberg - now Kaliningrad and part of Russia but in 1945 the main city of Germany's province of East Prussia - which was the last known storage place of the fabled Amber Room before it fell to the Red Army.

The Amber Room was stolen by the Nazis from a Czarist palace during their invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Crafted entirely out of amber, gold and precious stones, the room made of numerous panels was a masterpiece of baroque art and widely regarded as one of the world's most important art treasures.

The Amber Room