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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 376940, member: 2844&quot;]That was made by Prussians and gifted to Russia. </p><p>The Germans stole it during WWII and took it to a castle in Königsberg, East Prussia. The castle was bombed, but most of the amber room probably survived. </p><p>Königsberg became part of the USSR and was renamed Kaliningrad. The castle ruins were demolished by the Soviets under Brezhnev, it is thought that is when the amber room disappeared forever. They have made a reconstruction however.</p><p>The reconstruction:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Bernsteinzimmer02.jpg/220px-Bernsteinzimmer02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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