The Amber room is one of the most beautiful creations that the human being has been able to establish and turn it into part of a great story. Imagine a great hall made as bright as gold; Its beauty enchants everyone who has been lucky enough to visit it. It is currently in St. Petersburg, located in the Catherine Palace, named as one of the most valuable rooms in the world for its architecture made in amber in 1701 by great German craftsmen, its value exceeded the price of gold and its construction took about six years to complete.
This room was made entirely of unique pieces of amber, gold, incredible mirrors and precious stone inlays. Its authentic origin is the Royal Palace located in Berlin; Also called »Amber Room». It was remodeled many times, until it became a fairly large chamber that exceeded fifty square meters; coming to possess tons of amber with which important figures in history were enchanted by its brightness, designating it as «the eighth wonder of the world».
Its intriguing story comes from its transfer, since after being in Berlin, it was placed in the residence of Tsar Pedro, who had been impacted by it; being Frederick William of Prussia, who decided to give it to him to strengthen relations between both nations. This room was installed in the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg (her current residence), where the Tsars of Russia stayed in summer, where they dedicated themselves to spending time and resting. The »Amber Room» was a monument of art, all its beauty was well preserved for a long period despite wars and revolutions.
During World War II, the Soviet government tried to empty the Amber Room to transport it to Russia, as it had done with other works of great artistic value. This fact could not be fulfilled, because over the years, the Amber had weakened, something that made it impossible to transfer its pieces without some of them being damaged. An intelligent technique that they decided to use to try to preserve it and prevent it from being stolen was to cover the Chamber, but this did not work, since the government of the Third Reich had set its sights on it long before and they already had a plan for it to be looted.
As we can see, this »Amber Room» has a long history in its history, different hypotheses say that its pieces were seen for the last time on a German ship, but other legends indicate that this room was destroyed in its entirety. Recently, in the year 2003, this was replaced by a copy in the Catherine Palace. Do you think there are still pieces of this work of art in the world?