The Amber Room was gifted to the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, and moved to the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg. However, in 1941 when Nazis invaded Russia, they dismantled the Amber Room and ...

The Amber Room of the Catherine Palace is one of the most famous ... At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (WWII), the Nazi invaders stripped the amber panels and all the decorations from ...

Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park ... and the opulence of the furnishings. The Amber Room was a particular highlight for recent ...

Catherine the Great dragged Russia into the modern world, expanded its borders, championed the arts and restructured its laws, revitalising Russia in the process and enabling it to become a powerhouse ...