| The Amber Room | | | | having been reconstructed by photographs and |
| If you happen to visit Tsarskoje Selo, Russia, | | | | memory. Expert craftsmen spent more than 20 |
| perhaps you would be lucky enough to see the | | | | years painstakingly carving and rebuilding the |
| rebuilt Amber Room. The original Amber Room is | | | | beautiful room that had been dubbed The Eighth |
| the subject of a great vanishing act. Given to | | | | Wonder of the World. The Russian government |
| Peter the Great by the son of the King of | | | | relied on donations to help bankroll the enormous |
| Prussia, Frederick Wilhelm I, the Amber Room | | | | cost of the room's reconstruction, including a |
| consisted of thousands of pieces of amber | | | | massive donation by the German company |
| assembled into intricate mosaics and decorated | | | | Rhurgas. |
| with ornaments, figures and patterns. | | | | While the Amber Room has been rebuilt, the |
| In 1941, the Nazis disassembled the room and | | | | search for the original Amber Room is still ongoing. |
| took it to the German city of Königsberg, | | | | In 1983, a cabinet maker was restoring a chest |
| now known as Kaliningrad, Russia. In 1945, the | | | | and thought the chest looked like the same one in |
| Soviets captured Königsberg and packed the | | | | a familiar picture. He then saw a Russian inventory |
| Amber Room into 27 crates. The original room | | | | number on the back and contacted the Tsarskoje |
| hasn't been seen since. The hunt continues for the | | | | Selo museum. The chest was listed in the registry |
| whereabouts of the Amber Room, or proof of its | | | | of the Catherine's Ekaterininsky Palace in |
| destruction, but nothing has come to fruition. | | | | Tsarskoje Selo, the last home of The Amber |
| Opening in 2003, the Amber Room is alive again, | | | | Room before the war. |