What Happened to the Amber Room? A World War II Mystery
One of the greatest art treasures of Imperial Russia disappeared with the Nazis and has yet to be found.
Here s What You Need to Know: Over the years, a number of extensive searches have proved fruitless.
In September 1941, during the siege of Leningrad, as the Soviets then called St. Petersburg, Nazi troops overran the Tsarskoye Selo Palace, the former summer residence of the czars in the suburban town of Pushkin. Inside the palace, these German troops discovered something that must have seemed otherworldly to them after they had spent the past 10 weeks marching and fighting in the dust and heat of the Russian summer.