The legend of the famous house in amber hall

The "Amber Room" is the study of Frederick I, the first king of Prussia, in the castle of Konigsberg. Established in 17 1 1 year. Five years later, Frederick II gave it as a gift to Peter the Great as a symbol of his alliance with Russia. Later, it was moved to the Summer Palace on the outskirts of St. Petersburg where the royal family lived.

The total decoration area of "Amber Hall" 1800 square feet. It is made up of some carefully processed wallboard. The total weight of amber used for decoration is 6 tons, but amber is the lightest jewelry in the world. Legend has it that amber is a mermaid's tear, which is precious and unusual. Each one takes thousands of years to form. The siding of "Amber Hall" is decorated with diamonds, emeralds and rubies, and exquisite Italian jewelry inlay technology is adopted. Such a rare treasure is called the eighth wonder of the world, and people think it has magic power. People in the Baltic region think that amber has magical healing function, and amber was called "gold in the north" and "sunshine stone" by people at that time.

When the Germans besieged Leningrad in World War II, although the Soviet side tried to cover up the true face of the Amber Room with wallpaper, it was discovered by Nazi soldiers. They demolished the Amber Room and quickly transported it back to Konigsberg by train, which later became the territory of the Soviet Union. The Amber Room is on display in the exhibition hall of the Konigsberg Museum. 1945 On the eve of Konigsberg's surrender, the Germans once again dismantled and boxed the "Amber Room" and prepared to transport it back to Berlin. From then on, he disappeared, disappeared. In the next 50 years, the search for the missing "Amber Room" wallboard with jewels made the "Amber Room" the biggest mystery after the war, but the search by the Soviet KGB, the East German secret police and others has been fruitless. According to Vera Bourrouillou Suva, widow of a famous Soviet archaeologist, her husband Alexander once said in his memoir 1955, "I don't believe that the Amber Room has disappeared forever."

What happened to the "Amber Room" that experienced the twists and turns of the war? People have different opinions and speculations, but some people think that the constant treasure hunt has brought death and bad luck to some insiders, which is the so-called "curse of the Amber Room".

Among those who died mysteriously because of the "curse of the Amber Room", there was Dr. Alfred Rhodes, the curator of the Konigsberg Museum, who was in charge of the management of amber collections when Nazi Germany ruled the city. The day before the Soviet Interior People's Committee (the predecessor of the KGB) prepared to interrogate him and his wife, both of them died mysteriously, but Soviet intelligence officials never found the bodies of the Rhodes couple. It was not until a few years ago, when interviewing Russian naval archaeologists, that Rhodes disappeared from Soviet surveillance for a few days, probably outside Konigsberg. Soon he came back, but what awaited him was death, or disappearing forever. Russian researchers believe that he went out of town to Pala Castle (a former German naval base).

Another strange missing person is the doctor who signed Rhodes' death certificate, followed by George Stein who persistently investigated the whereabouts of the Amber Room. He was found naked in a forest in Germany, and his stomach was cut into pieces by a scalpel. His death was extremely tragic.

According to reports from Avinel, Ouus Yanov said that Stein was a German researcher who helped hand over hundreds of "cultural relics" looted by the Nazis to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union did not allow him to enter the "forbidden zone" in Kaliningrad.

Orbos Yanov is a student of a military engineering college. Under the orders of his superiors, he and his classmates were ordered to blow up the ruins left by the Konigsberg fire. He was only a young soldier at that time. In retrospect, he didn't want to get involved in this matter.

According to Russian media reports, a group ordered to look for the "Amber Room" wrote a secret report in 1984, asking why they could not investigate the fate of the "Amber Room" without interference and complaining that their work was restricted by the Soviet military and the KGB.

A Russian intelligence general died in a mysterious traffic accident after telling a newspaper reporter about the "Amber Room". The details of the accident have never been known. Has the Amber Room been destroyed by the war, or is it still hidden in a corner of the world, waiting for people to find it?

Some people think that when the Soviet Red Army launched an attack on 1945, the shells hit Konigsberg, and the "Amber Room" had already been destroyed in the war. However, a Soviet veteran and consultant of the Russian Cultural Foundation believed that the castle was on fire before Konigsberg was captured, and it continued to burn for three days after the city was captured. The veteran once heard a German watchman say that the siding removed from the "Amber Room" had been boxed and put in the basement of the castle before being transported away.

Of course, the Soviet Red Army has no reason to burn the rare treasures of its own country, which shows that another secret force, probably the Nazi underground secret organization, carried out the orders of Nazi Germany. At that time, the Red Army fought fiercely, and Konigsberg had a complex fortress system, but at that time they had not completely controlled the situation. The fire spread from the suburbs to the city center. After months of continuous fighting, the officers and men of the Soviet Red Army were exhausted. The Germans held the dock area and almost all the urban population retreated. The whole area was in flames and there was chaos everywhere.

If someone takes advantage of the chaos to hide the "Amber Room" at this time, it will be easy to do without being known.

Orfus Yanov is the head of the cultural heritage investigation department in Kalinin region. In 2002, he revealed some details of finding the "Amber Room".

/kloc-in the summer of 0/945, the Soviet special forces led by Belkayaeva came to Konigsberg. The task of this team is to find the precious Russian cultural relics plundered by Nazi Germany, including books, works, crowns, paintings and archaeological collections.

Another group sent by the Art Committee of the former Soviet Union is also engaged in this work, collecting antique cultural relics looted by Nazi Germany. bel

The 60 boxes of cultural relics collected by Kaya Eva's group are still preserved in Konigsberg, but no one knows what happened to the members of this group.

The work of other cultural relics collection teams was finally taken over by the internal affairs people's Committee or the KGB, and the files kept by the KGB were not even seen by Russian researchers.

1967, the Soviet government set up a special committee to look for the Amber Room and other valuable cultural relics in the museum. Its headquarters is in Moscow, but the specific search work was carried out by the Kaliningrad Archaeological Expedition (KGAE) in the Baltic region. Expeditions have no access to many high-level secrets, and their work is often influenced by bureaucracy. The expedition itself belongs to a secret unit, and their work is also confidential. But even they have no access to the secret archives about the looted cultural relics of the Soviet Union. According to Orbos Yanov, these archives were still sealed after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the archaeological expedition was dissolved in 1983. The East German secret police have been looking for the Amber Room for many years, and they also set up a special organization for this purpose in the 1970s and 1980s. According to a Soviet architect named Maksimov, when the Soviet Union captured the city, they found a new downward sloping waterway on the west side of the castle, with a great inclination. Some people think that the "Amber Room" is hidden here. Russian and German archaeologists inspected the basement of the castle and found some ancient weapons and jewels.

But Orfus Yanov thinks that before the castle was completely destroyed in 1968, someone must have gone in, because it was easy to do.

Another possible burial place of "Amber Room" is Paraa Castle. Dr. Rhodes slipped out of the city under the nose of the People's Committee of the Interior (NKVD), which is probably related to this. Paraa is an important naval base in the Baltic Sea of Russia, located in the west of Kaliningrad. In the 1940s, after the Soviet Union learned that the Germans had planted many explosives and mines in this area, the cellar of the castle was sealed.

This castle used to be the military headquarters of Nazi Germany, but when the Red Army entered the castle, no German officers were found. It turned out that they had escaped from the castle through a secret passage. Later, this area was used as a secret base of the Soviet navy.

Can it be said that "Amber Room" has been loaded on the German cruise ship William Gussov? The ship was later hit and sunk by a torpedo launched by a submarine in the Baltic Sea. However, Russian archaeologists believe that Nazi Germany would not take such a big risk to transport priceless cultural relics across the Baltic Sea. They knew that the submarine of the Soviet Red Army was waiting there. Some people speculate that the Amber Room may be hidden in the seaside area of the Baltic Sea, and some recent discoveries support this hypothesis. Some treasure hunters in the world have never given up their efforts to find the "Amber Room". They dug all the cellars and salt wells, and searched many churches and caves. They have been to many countries, including Austria, Germany, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Some people think that the Amber Room is still hidden in a semi-submerged cave in Kaliningrad, and several divers sacrificed their lives in vain to find out whether Nazi Germany hid the Amber Room there. Hans Stadell Mann, a German researcher, is convinced that Nazi Germany hid the siding of the "Amber Room" under the building in Weimar town.

In the beach area of Kaliningrad, people can often pick up some fragments of natural amber, which were washed ashore by the waves of the Baltic Sea. The sea and coast have always been well kept secret.

1997, a german policeman found one of the mosaics on the wall of the amber room. His father was a former German officer who escorted the Amber Room to Konigsberg during the war, so he knew its origin at a glance. The police sold the inlay through a lawyer. This is a wallboard with a length of 70.5cm and a width of 55cm. The picture above depicts a couple taking their dog for a walk in the park.

Gothenburg, today's Kaliningrad, a city full of contradictions and fog, is facing new evils. Some criminals in eastern Europe are engaged in illegal activities and smuggling activities here. They kidnap and sell women and smuggle drugs. Kaliningrad became their transportation channel, and more and more neo-Nazis appeared in Kaliningrad. If Nazi erich Koch knew what was going on underground, he would also snicker. However, the Austrian local government admits that many "treasure hunters" often sneak into the bottom of the lake and dream of finding Nazi treasures. They can't tell you how many unofficial diving and treasure hunting activities have taken place in Lake Toplitz. But one thing is certain, many treasure hunters gave their lives for these treasures.

1945 and 1950, two former employees who used to work in the Nazi secret research station quietly returned to Lake Toplitz, but were unfortunately killed in a mysterious mountaineering accident. According to the local people, the two men had dug in the area shortly before their sudden death.

1947, a us navy diver was drowned alive while searching in toplitz lake. 1955, a German died mysteriously on Lake Toplitz, and the locals said that he was also a "treasure hunter".