The original Amber Room was made in Germany under the guidance of Andreas Schluter, Gottfried Wolfram, Ernst Schacht, and Gottfried Turau from 1701 through 1715 MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. Exactly on this ...

THE SUMMER PALACES OF THE ROMANOVS: TREASURES FROM TSARSKOYE SELO By Emmanuel Ducamp Photographs by Marc Walter Thames & Hudson, $100, 360 pages, illustrated Emmanuel Ducamp, a distinguished historian ...

Archive Photo The emperor and his family were killed in the basement of the house they were exiled to in Yekaterinburg during the night of July 17, 1918. Just a year before, in March he had abdicated ...

Tsarskoye Selo, which in Russian means Tsar's Village, is celebrating its 300th anniversary this week. The celebrations will begin with the opening of the Cathedral of the Holy Martyr Ekaterina, which ...

Photo credit: The Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg / Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov / en.wikipedia.org (CC BY-SA 4.0) The Tsarskoye Selo museum plans to develop cooperation with Chinese and ...

The Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near St. Petersburg was known as the Eighth Wonder of the World before it was dismantled and shipped off in crates by German troops during ...

After the Bolshevik Revolution many aristocratic families fled abroad, in haste taking whatever personal items they could. Some managed to somehow to take the family jewels, while others were less ...