A map of the Amber Room
The German forger Andreas Uckert, lenders are trying to start the research of the famous Amber Room of the Tsars, a treasure stolen by the Nazis during the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Uckert says he has discovered a map - they are written with invisible ink letters "AH" (Adolf Hitler?) - That lead him to the treasure.
Andreas Uckert e la mappa (Thomas Lebie)
(Thomas Lebie)
In 1699, during the reconstruction of the Royal Palace in Berlin, the architect Andreas Schluter proposed the idea of using amber to cover the walls of one of the rooms of the palace. King Frederick I of Prussia was then a room completely covered in amber, which until then had never found a place among the materials to furniture. The successor of Frederick I, Frederick William, however, decided to remove all the pieces that made up the room and set them aside. When, in 1716, the new King of Prussia met the Emperor Peter I of Russia, gave him the pieces of the Amber Room, and received in exchange for the soldiers. The story alternates between the House renovations, little tricks to compensate for the lack of amber, and sees alternating rulers and architects.
But you should wait until the last century because the Amber Room will become the subject of extensive research.
During the Second World War, in fact, the German troops during the invasion of Russia, dismantled the entire room, which was reported in Germany and then exhibited in the museum of Koenigsberg, amid the joy of Germans who declared that it was the home of the Amber Room. But, the new arrangement was not yet final.
The German troops withdrew, the war was not going as Germany had expected and the Amber Room was dismantled again. Since that time the traces are lost, even if recent history tells us that ....
In 1699, during the reconstruction of the Royal Palace in Berlin, the architect Andreas Schluter proposed the idea of using amber to cover the walls of one of the rooms of the palace. King Frederick I of Prussia was then a room completely covered in amber, which until then had never found a place among the materials to furniture. The successor of Frederick I, Frederick William, however, decided to remove all the pieces that made up the room and set them aside. When, in 1716, the new King of Prussia met the Emperor Peter I of Russia, gave him the pieces of the Amber Room, and received in exchange for the soldiers. The story alternates between the House renovations, little tricks to compensate for the lack of amber, and sees alternating rulers and architects.
But you should wait until the last century because the Amber Room will become the subject of extensive research.
During the Second World War, in fact, the German troops during the invasion of Russia, dismantled the entire room, which was reported in Germany and then exhibited in the museum of Koenigsberg, amid the joy of Germans who declared that it was the home of the Amber Room. But, the new arrangement was not yet final.
The German troops withdrew, the war was not going as Germany had expected and the Amber Room was dismantled again. Since that time the traces are lost, even if recent history tells us that ....
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