Humanity has long used the healing, artistic, and technical properties of this amazing stone - amber. Archaeologists have found "electron" ("amber" in Greek) in ancient tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. Highly artistic amber products had various shapes and sizes. Petrified resin was widely used by jewelers. Amber was used to make rings, beads, bracelets, and even jewelry... amber cabinets. Various sources claim that seven such apartments were made, and that all of them are in hiding places. There were such offices both in Germany and in Russia. In 1716, King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia presented his amber cabinet to the Russian Tsar Peter 1. After its assembly in Russia, it was improved and modified until 1773. The interior of the office became richer and more majestic due to the addition of amber and gold... At the end of 1941, the ungrateful fellow countrymen of the Prussian monarch, the fascists, took the cabinet to Konigsberg, where it was dismantled until the end of the war. Then the traces of Friedrich's gift were lost in the labyrinths of the city's dungeons. This was probably the biggest theft in the total robbery of the Soviet Union. During the war, German raiders "took" 427 museums and art galleries, over 20 local history museums... This is especially the case with the Amber Room. Many enthusiastic researchers have been searching for this unique work. But in vain. The mystery remains a mystery, although such venerable scientists as A. Malakhov, B. Naumenko and other researchers tried to shed light on it. It is quite natural that the search engines ' efforts were concentrated in the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad), or rather in its countless multi-tiered dungeons. According to experts, several underground tunnels branched off from the royal castle - the city - forming center-in different directions. Separate tunnels passed under the Pregolya River. After the war, the ruined castle was blown up, blocking the entrances, disrupting communications with the network ... Читать далее