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Episode #8: What Happened to the Amber Room? (Season 1, Episode 8)
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:47:39
Publish Date: 2016-11-14 05:14:00
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One of the most awe-inspiring sights in and around St. Petersburg, Russia, is the Catherine Palace, a rococo summer residence for the imperial family of yore. Up until World War II, The Catherine Palace housed something so incredible, so coveted, and so gorgeous that for hundreds of years, travelers fro all over the world flocked to admire it, referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World." And then, in the early 1940s with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, this priceless creation was stolen. And to this day, it has still never been found.

What happened to the Amber Room?

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Want even MORE information? Check out the links below:

The Mystery of the Nazis and the Vanished Amber Room

Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland?

A Brief History of the Amber Room

Mystery of the Amber Room: Video

St. Petersburg, taken September 2016 by Jennifer Dasal
St. Petersburg, taken September 2016 by Jennifer Dasal
Statue of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg, taken September 2016 by Jennifer Dasal
J.-M. Nattier, Portrait of Peter the Great, 1717
The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, taken September 2016 by Jennifer Dasal
The Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), taken September 2016 by Jennifer Dasal
Interior shot of the Amber Room, by jeanyfan on Wikimedia Commons - Own work, Public Domain
Interior shot of the Amber Room, by Wikimedia Commons user jeanyfan - Own work, Public Domain
Interior shot of the Amber Room, by jeanyfan on Wikimedia Commons - Own work, Public Domain
Medallion-shaped relief depicting Andreas Schlüter in the entrance hall of Hamburg's City Hall, ca.1890. Photo by James Steakley - Eigene Fotografie (own photography), CC BY 3.0,
Baltic amber samples with varying color and clarity. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user By PrinWest Handelsagentur J. Kossowski - Own work, CC BY 3.0
Baltic Amber
Fyodor Rokotov, Portrait of Empress Catherine the Great
The
Koningsburg Castle prior to World War II
Vladimir Putin and others celebrate the opening of the reconstructed Amber Room, 2003
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