The Amber Room, a gift to Peter I

Name: The Amber Room, a gift to Peter I
Start: 1716
Location: Saint Petersburg, later Tsarskoye Selo

1716 · Saint Petersburg, later Tsarskoye Selo · Eastern Europe & Russia · Culture

An 'eighth wonder' given for an alliance, then lost in war

The Amber Room, a gift to Peter I — Branson DeCou · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

The amber panels were made for the Prussian king, but in 1716 Frederick William I gave them to Peter I to seal an alliance against Sweden. In 1941 the Nazis took the room to Königsberg and its fate is still unknown. A replica took 24 years and opened in the Catherine Palace in 2003.

State: Tsardom of Russia

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