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It seems hard to believe that crates of several tons of amber could go missing, and many historians have tried to solve the mystery. And with that, the trail of the Amber Room was lost. In August of the following year, allied bombing raids destroyed the city and turned the castle museum into ruins. In late 1943, with the end of the war in sight, Rohde was advised to dismantle the Amber Room and crate it away. The museum's director, Alfred Rohde, was an amber aficionado and studied the room's panel history while it was on display for the next two years. The room was reinstalled in KГ¶nigsberg's castle museum on the Baltic Coast. But the ruse didn't fool the German soldiers, who tore down the Amber Room within 36 hours, packed it up in 27 crates and shipped it to KГ¶nigsberg, Germany (present-day Kaliningrad). When the dry amber began to crumble, the officials instead tried hiding the room behind thin wallpaper. The invasion led to the looting of tens of thousands of art treasures, including the illustrious Amber Room, which the Nazis believed was made by Germans and, most certainly, made for Germans.ДЄs the forces moved into Pushkin, officials and curators of the Catherine Palace attempted to disassemble and hide the Amber Room. On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler initiated Operation Barbarossa, which launched three million German soldiers into the Soviet Union. Over time, the Amber Room was used as a private meditation chamber for Czarina Elizabeth, a gathering room for Catherine the Great and a trophy space for amber connoisseur Alexander II. The amber panels were backed with gold leaf, and historians estimate that, at the time, the room was worth $142 million in today's dollars.

In 1755, Czarina Elizabeth ordered the room to be moved to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, named Tsarskoye Selo, or 'Czar's Village.' Italian designer Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli redesigned the room to fit into its new, larger space using additional amber shipped from Berlin.ДЄfter other 18th-century renovations, the room covered about 180 square feet and glowed with six tons of amber and other semi-precious stones. Petersburg as a part of a European art collection. The Amber Room was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and installed in the Winter House in St. Peter the Great admired the room on a visit, and in 1716 the King of Prussia-then Frederick William I-presented it to the Peter as a gift, cementing a Prussian-Russian alliance against Sweden. Truly an international collaboration, the room was designed by German baroque sculptor Andreas SchlГјter and constructed by the Danish amber craftsman Gottfried Wolfram. It was originally installed at Charlottenburg Palace, home of Friedrich I, the first King of Prussia. A replica was completed in 2003, but the contents of the original, dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World,' have remained missing for decades.Д¬onstruction of the Amber Room began in 1701. A gift to Peter the Great in 1716 celebrating peace between Russia and Prussia, the room's fate became anything but peaceful: Nazis looted it during World War II, and in the final months of the war, the amber panels, which had been packed away in crates, disappeared.

Or, hop onto the Adirondack Railroad with the Easter bunny on Friday morning for a round trip from Holland Patent Station to Remsen Depot, where there will be an egg hunt and photo opportunity with the bunny.While many Americans associate amber with the casing for dinosaur DNA in 1993's Jurassic Park, the stone has enthralled Europeans, and especially Russians, for centuries because of the golden, jewel-encrusted Amber Room, which was made of several tons of the gemstone.

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The Crowne PlazaвЂ™s Easter brunch is in their Horizons Ballroom on the 20th floor and is $40 for anyone 13 and over, $30 for kids 10 to 12, $20 for kids 3 to 9, and free for kids 2 and under. ItвЂ™s $36 for adults, $19 for kids 3 to 12 and free for kids 2 and under. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo also has an Easter brunch, on Sunday at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. Tickets are $40 for adults, $19 for kids 5 to 12 and free for kids under 5 years old. The Marriott Syracuse Downtown will host its annual Easter brunch on Sunday in the Grand Ballroom at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and the Syracuse Inner Harbor egg hunt will start on Saturday at 1 p.m. Liverpool will host an egg hunt in Johnson Park on Saturday at 9 a.m. The Wild Animal Park in Chittenango will host an egg hunt on Saturday all day, too, and so will Billy Whittakers Cars & Trux in Central Square. ThereвЂ™s an egg hunt at Lakeland Park in Cazenovia on Saturday from 9 to 10 a.m., and another from 9:30 a.m. Upstate New York will be covered with Easter eggs this weekend, by the looks of it.

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