Frederick William I, King of Prussia, never imagined that his gift to the Russian people would have a surprising history.

This gift is the Amber Room. It has this name because it took nearly several tons of amber to build this house. The amber chosen is bright and yellow-brown, like honey. The design of the house was a very artistic architectural style popular at that time. The treasure in the amber room is also inlaid with gold and jewels, which took the best artists in the country several years to complete.

Actually, the Amber Room was not built as a gift. It was built as the palace of Frederick I. However, the next Prussian king Frederick William I, the owner of this amber room, decided not to own it. 17 16 for Peter the Great. In return, the czar gave him a team of the best soldiers. Therefore, the Amber Room became a part of the East Palace of the Tsar in St. Petersburg. The amber room is about 4 meters long and is used as a small reception room for important guests.

Later, Catherine II sent someone to move the Amber Room to a summer palace outside St. Petersburg. She asked the artist to add more decorations to it. 1770, the amber room was completed in the way she asked. Nearly 600 candles lit up the room, and the mirror inside was as shiny as the portrait gold. Unfortunately, although the Amber Room is considered as one of the wonders of the world, its whereabouts are still unknown.

194 1 September, Nazi Germans approached St. Petersburg. This is a period when the two countries are at war. Before the Nazis arrived at the Summer Palace, the Russians only had time to remove some furniture and small works of art from the Amber Room. But the Amber Room itself was carried away by some Nazi secrets. In less than two days, the Amber Room was dismantled into 6,543,800 pieces and put into 27 wooden cases. There is no doubt that these boxes were later loaded on the train and transported to Konigsberg, then a city on the Baltic Sea.

Since then, the final destination of the Amber Room has become a mystery. Recently, Russians and Germans built a new amber room in the Summer Palace. By studying the photos of the previous amber room, they made the new amber room look very similar to the original one. In 2003, when the people of St. Petersburg celebrated the 300th anniversary of their city, it was completed.

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