![]() The only pieces of the room ever recovered were a cabinet and the fourth Florentine mosaic - a German soldier had stolen the latter during the room’s removal in 1941 or 1945. Leads were followed left right and centre but nothing conclusive was ever found. The most absurd states that Stalin had a fake Amber Room constructed, so the Nazi’s never even got their hands on the real thing. Other claims place the room in old salt mines on the Czech border, sunk in a lagoon in Lithuania and even stripped down and shipped off to the U.S. Read more about: Medieval History One of the most incredible treasure hauls of all time? Five key items Its wreckage, however, has been dived many times and nothing linked to the Amber Room has ever been discovered there. Eyewitnesses claimed to have seen the Amber Room being packaged up and placed on-board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German transport ship, which was subsequently sunk in January 1945 by a Soviet submarine. In the years that followed, theory after theory arose. With the support of the KGB, he had Brusov denounced and started his own investigation, perhaps in an attempt to divert attention away from his own mistake. Kuchumov, the man who’d failed to keep the room safe back in 1941, refused to accept Brusov’s conclusion. In the cellar of the castle, Brusov purportedly discovered the burnt remains of three out of four Florentine mosaics that had been in the Amber Room. The most obvious theory and one backed by Professor Alexander Brusov, the man the Soviets sent to recover the stolen artefacts in May 1945, is that they were indeed destroyed by the bombings and subsequent fires. Read more about: WW2 What if Stalingrad had fallen? In 1755, Peter’s daughter Empress Elizabeth had the room re-located to the Catherine Palace in modern-day Pushkin, just outside of St. It was deconstructed and placed into large boxes and moved to the city Peter had just founded, St. To forge an alliance between the two states, Frederick’s son Frederick William I presented Peter with the room as a gift. Eventually, the room was installed in Berlin City Palace where, in 1716, the visiting Russian tsar, Peter the Great, fell in love with it. In 1707, amber masters Ernst Schacht and Gottfried Turau, from Danzig, continued the work until the deaths of Sophie Charlotte and Frederick. It was heated and then dipped in an infusion of honey and linseed, before being worked onto panels of wood covered in gold or silver leaf and decorated with precious jewels. ![]() To realise Schlüter’s ambitious dream, the pair had to create new ways of working with amber. To complete the task Schlüter enlisted the help of Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram. The palace was home to Frederick I, the first King of Prussia, and his wife Queen Sophie Charlotte. Schlüter planned to adorn the walls of one of the rooms in the Charlottenburg Palace, in Berlin, with amber panels. R.H.C implements the totality of this experience to give consignors and buyers the most equitable home goods and furniture shopping and selling experience in central Oregon.Read more about: Kings and Queens History’s greatest love affair: Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin We have over two decades of construction, design, property flipping, retail and customer service experience to help you find a great solution to any design challenge. We strive to serve the public, the environment, and the future the best we can with passion and pleasantness. Roundabouts Home Consignments does not want to see any piece that has the potential for a new loving home ending up in the garbage! Here at Roundabouts we fervidly spend countless hours and costs making every effort to find you a great deal and all items new homes. As well, R.H.C is continually supplying local Non Profits with furniture, goods, and services to help those in need. ![]() Buying and selling pre-owned goods is a fun way to bolster the local economy via locals selling, locals buying, locals (us) reinvesting. Plus, you can score insane values on designer and high qualtiy furnishings! R.H.C provides a necessary service for the community helping prevent landfills from filling unduly. ![]() Consignment and sales of pre-owned goods exponentially helps the environment via the CIRCULAR ECONOMY. ![]()
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