The Catherine Palace and the Amber Room

[Jacqueline]

Hunt on for Tsars' Amber Room

ALLAN HALL IN BERLIN

CRAFTED entirely out of amber, gold and precious stones, it was a masterpiece of baroque art and widely regarded as the world’s most important art treasure.

When its 565 candles were lit, the famous Amber Room was said to glow a fiery gold......

Article From: The Scotsman

 

[Jacqueline]

Amber room is glowing again after Nazi pillaging
By Ben Aris in St Petersburg
(Filed: 19/04/2003)


After 25 years of painstaking work St Petersburg's Amber room, once hailed as an eighth wonder of the world and destroyed in the Second World War, has been recreated......

Article From: news.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Julia]

Thanks for the articles, Jacqueline. Quite interesting and it would be fabulous to see the Amber Room. Sounds exquisite and gorgeous.

 

[Jacqueline]

Peter the Great's amber room reborn

Russia has announced that work to recreate one of its greatest art treasures, Peter the Great's Amber Room, has been completed just weeks before the city of his name celebrates its 300th anniversary.


Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi said that work to rebuild the Amber Room at Tsarskoye Selo, just outside....

Article and Photo From: BBC News

 

[Steleva]

http://www.tzar.ru/a-r/1st/

 

[lexi4]

The Amber Room

This is interesting, it looks like the Amber Room may have been found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=516707&in_page_id=1811

I hope I am putting this in the right place.
Lexi

 

[jcbcode99]

It is very interesting--thank you for posting the article! How exciting that this amazing room may have finally been found.
Here are some links:

Amber Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (I know some don't like to see Wikipedia put here, but this gives some good, basic information and history)

Amber Room Picture Show link with pictures--including the only known color pic

 

[Jason R Maier esq]

Very interesting that a lost piece of history may have been found

 

[lexi4]

Steve Berry wrote a great mystery novel (fiction of course) about the Amber Room. I really enjoyed the book. Wouldn't you love to see it?

 

[scooter]

Not sure what the law is there. Is it finders-keepers?

 

[lexi4]

Here is an interesting site about The Amber Room.

Amber Room - The Authentic Story of a lost art work

 

[Russophile]

It would be like being Howard Carter!

 

[lexi4]

Located in Tsarskoye Selo, the Catherine Palace is a magnificient example of Russian baroque architecture. The exisitng palace was built in the mid 1700s under the architectural direction of Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
Here are some photos of the palace.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Tsarskoie_Selo.png

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Catherine_Palace_ballroom.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Agaterooms.jpg

 

[Russophile]

They work Lex! Lovely!
Doesn't Tsarskoe Selo mean Tsar's village? How many dacha's are located in this "village"?

 

[lexi4]

Yes, that is what it means. Wouldn't you love to go see the place Russo? More than 100 kilos of gold were used to gild the facade.
Check out this site: http://www.alexanderpalace.org/2006tsarskoe/palace.html

Can you imagine the characters in your book sipping Merlot in that ball room?

 

[lucien]

Dr.Ivan Petrovich Sautov,Director of the Tsarskoe Selo Museums suddenly passed away - aged 60 - on august 1st.

An unique personality passed away,one that was instrumental,ao,in the restauration of the Catharine Palace and it's wonderfull Amber Room.

Announcement courtesy dear ChristineM,a dear friend of the late Dr.Sautov and Mrs.Sautova.

RIP

 

[Avicenna]

Located in Tsarskoye Selo, the Catherine Palace is a magnificient example of Russian baroque architecture. The exisitng palace was built in the mid 1700s under the architectural direction of Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
Here are some photos of the palace.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Tsarskoie_Selo.png

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Catherine_Palace_ballroom.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y146/lexi4/Catherine Palace/250px-Agaterooms.jpg

Awesome! Thank you, Lexi, what an impressive place. Wish I can see it one day with my own eyes

 

[Russophile]

I am hoping to see it next year when I go to Russia.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

When there was not amber, areas of the walls were covered with canvas and painted in imitation of the stone by the artist Ivan Belskey.
In 1763 Empress Catherine II gave orders that the painted canvas on the lower part of the wall be replaced with newly-made amber panels. The craftsmen produced eight flat panels for the lower tier with a mosaic pattern.
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[Al_bina]

World's 8th Wonder : Expedition Unknown : Travel Channel


The above episode by Travel Channel is devoted to the Amber Room mystery.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

The Amber Room was built in the Baroque style.