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Amber Room

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Also known as The Amber Room, Pushkin

room made of amber

Key facts

Artist
Andreas Schlüter , Gottfried Wolfram
Medium
Amber , gold leaf , gemstone , mirror
Movement
Classicism
Weight
6 tonnes (13,000 lb)
Condition
reconstruction
Location
Catherine Palace , Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
Owner
Russian Federation
Website
amberroom .ru

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003

The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, romanized: Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amber Room” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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