What happened to the famous Amber Room at Catherine the Greats palace?
Nicholas: It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the war. The Amber Room consists of a series of large panels made of little slivers of amber that are put together like stained glass, so they are very delicate. They were taken down by the Nazis and packed away, and then they were exhibited at one point in Knigsburg or Kaliningrad, as it’s called now, where the Nazis had set up a museum of works they had taken from Russia. As the war came to an end, they were packed up again and put somewhere, and nobody knows where that is. The Kaliningrad was bombed, so it is possible that the panels were destroyed there, but it is also possible that they were on a ship that sank in the Baltic or that they are in a cave somewhere. Every treasure hunter in the world is out there trying to find them. In the meantime, the Russians have started restoring the Amber Room and recreating the panels. Probably before they find anything, it will be finished. Ferris: Great Britain and America come away as th
