Amber Room from Catherine Palace looked for in Germany

The Amber Room is being looked for in Germany, RIA Novosti informs. Archaeologists hope to find the lost treasure at the territory of Thuringia.

As per local mass media, the excavation works are conducted at the outskirts of Nordhausen city, next to the Konstein Mountain. A secret factory where concentration camp prisoners constructed V-1 and V-2 rockets in the 40ies was located there. The survivors said that they saw German soldiers digging big containers in the ground at spring 1945. According to the experts, fragments of the Amber Chamber could be buried there.

The Amber Chamber was created by German and Danish craftsmen for the Prussian King Friedrich I. Later, his son presented this masterpiece to Peter the Great. Afterwards, the Room was placed in Catherine Palace and moved to Konigsberg (today’s Kaliningrad) during WWII.

It is worth reminding that Germany is not the only place where the lost masterpiece was searched for. Last summer the Amber Room was being looked for in Poland when all reservoirs next to the Warminsko-Mazurskie were investigated. Not a long time ago, the scientists found an unknown hidden room inside reservoirs kept since the war times. In the fifties of XX century, a witness informed that several trucks arrived at the territory in the beginning of 1945. Unloaded content was buried.

Russkiy Mir