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Amber Room Reconstruction in Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo Is Completed
05/13/2003 12:44
The ceremony of the official opening of the unique Amber Room will take place
on June 3
The Expert Council will sign on Tuesday an act on completing the restoration of
the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo, a former residence of
Russian czars near St. Petersburg, Tatyana Zharkova, chief of the press service
of the Tsarskoye Selo museum and preserve, said.

The Expert Council includes representatives of the Culture Ministry, the
Tsarskoye Selo preserve and the German Ruhrgas company.

According to Zharkova, the experts of the Amber Workshop in Tsarskoye Selo
installed the last panel on weekend, and the reconstruction of the Amber Room
will be fully completed by Tuesday.

The first people who saw the reconstructed wonder were about 400 WWII veterans
and the St. Petersburg residents who had survived the Nazi blockade. They were
shown the Amber Room on May 8, 9 and 10. On May 31 it will be seen by the heads
of state who will arrive in St. Petersburg for the celebrations of the city's
300th anniversary.

The ceremony of the official opening of the unique Amber Room will take place
on June 3. By that day an exhibition devoted to the many years of work to
reconstruct the lost Amber Room will have been opened.

The Amber Room (with amber panels decorating the interior) was presented to
Russian czar Peter the Great by King Wilhelm I of Prussia in 1716. In 1755 the
amber panels were installed in one of the halls of the Grand Palace in
Tsarskoye Selo.

During World War II Tsarskoye Selo was occupied by the Nazis and the Amber Room
was dismantled and carried away to Konigsberg. Its fate is not known to this
day, and the long search for it proved futile.

In 1979 the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation decided to
reconstruct the Amber Room. In 1983 the chief architect of the Catherine
Palace, Alexander Kedrinksy, one of the few people who saw the original Amber
Room, began working on the project of reconstructing the panels. Reconstruction
was performed by experts with the Amber Workshop in Tsarskoye Selo.

The work was funded from the federal budget. During the 20 years of
reconstruction work a sum of 7.85 million dollars from the federal budget was
spent on the project. In 1999 an agreement was signed, obliging the German
Ruhrgas AG company to invest about 3.5 million dollars in the last stage of
Amber Room reconstruction.