Catherine Palace
Baroque palace of gilded halls and a legendary amber chamber lost to war and rebuilt from memory.
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This guide to Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg follows the Amber Room, stripped from these walls by German troops in October 1941 after staff tried and failed to hide it under plain wallpaper. It traces the six tons of amber and gold leaf to Konigsberg Castle on the Baltic coast, where it went on display for a few years under new eyes. Then, as Allied bombers closed in during 1944, the crates were packed up again and sent onward.
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