{"id":834,"date":"2008-02-22T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=834"},"modified":"2008-02-22T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:13:15","slug":"will-they-ever-find-the-original-amber-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Will they ever find the original Amber Room?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I visited the Catherine Palace at Pushkin &#8211; until 1937 called Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar&#8217;s Village) &#8211; 25 km south of St Petersburg [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/StPetersburg.html#Palaces\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nA major historic feature of the palace was the Amber Room which originated from a gift of amber from the Prussians. It was taken to Germany and lost in the chaos at the end of the war. However, at a reputed cost of \u00a33.5M, the Amber Room has been totally reconstructed and is once more one of the Catherine Palace&#8217;s brightest jewels.<br \/>\nThe original Amber Room has never been found and periodically stories emerge suggesting its location. This week, a German MP called Heinz-Peter Haustein announced his theory that the Amber Room may be situated underground near the northern German village of Deutschneudorf of which he is also mayor [further information <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7256204.stm\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I visited the Catherine Palace at Pushkin &#8211; until 1937 called Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar&#8217;s Village) &#8211; 25 km south of St Petersburg [my account here]. A major historic feature of the palace was the Amber Room which originated from a gift of amber from the Prussians. It was taken to Germany and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}