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Russian amber crafts to be exhibited in Louvre

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Russian amber crafts to be exhibited in Louvre


12.10.2017

Flickr/Helen CookThe French audience is to see amber works made by Kaliningrad amber cutters, TASS reports. They will be exhibited at the International Exhibition of the Cultural Heritage opening at Louvre next month.

The Amber museum of the westernmost Russian region presents items of amber in the French capital for the fifth time. The exposition of this year comprises works by the artist Konstantin Bushmelyev and Prussian Honey Alliance.
Artistic Craft Chamber in France is conducting the International exhibition. Its main task is to demonstrate technologies, skills and materials representing the property of humanity. It is one of the most prestigious exhibitions in France.

Administration of Kaliningrad region has explained that their purpose is to present the region as a center of amber arts and show beauty of the rarest gem and skills of craftsmen working with it.

Amber is excavated at the Baltic Sea near Yantarny village. According to the experts’ estimations, around ninety percent of the world reserves of amber aged fifty million years are located there. Each year amber factory extracts about three hundred tons of raw amber. The reserves of two amber fields exceed one hundred tons.

It should be reminded that this September Paris citizens and city guests witnessed reconstruction of the first amber room gifted to Peter the Great by Prussian king Frederick Wilhelm I.

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