LONDON - The German Andreas Uckert, writes the Austrian Times online newspaper, is looking for a lender to begin the search for the treasure of the Czars, or the "Amber Room" donated in 1716 Frederick William I, King of Prussia to Tsar Peter the Great. Uckert claims to have a map indicating the place where is the original room of the precious Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg, disappeared during the war and rebuilt in 1957. It would be near Fulda (central Germany), buried in three bunkers. On the map, there would also be a few sentences written in invisible ink with the signing AH (Adolf Hitler?).
GOLD EFFECT - The Amber Room, a masterpiece of Baroque art, was about the size of a hundred square meters, covered from floor to ceiling with 107 panels of amber of the Baltic Sea. When the 565 candles were lit, the effect was magnificent: he seemed to be dipped in gold. The engravers of Koenigsberg had taken seven years to complete. Peter the Great had it installed by the architect Florentine Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700-1771) to Tzarskoe Zeal and for 200 years was the most precious jewel of the Romanovs.
The beautiful work of art was removed by the Nazis during the three years of the terrible siege of Leningrad. At that time, Tzarskoe Zeal and his treasure were firmly in German hands. When, in '43, the tide of war changed and the Soviet Union went to the counter, the Nazis dismantled the Amber Room, piece by piece and pack it in twenty-two steel boxes that were transported in the former royal palace of Koenigsberg. A year later, the Soviets took over East Prussia and the boxes ended up in the hands of the SS.
HUNTING AND 'OPEN - Since then, Treasury Tsar, were untraceable. The current monetary value of the room would be around 150 million euro. "It's a life that I'm looking for old documents. I found the map in a stall in Berlin on June 17. On the map there is an eagle and a swastika. You sell Nazi symbols is a crime in Germany. Maybe that's why the seller sold it to me for very little money, and quickly. Best seen, I found the hidden writings I have read with a flashlight, "says Andreas Uckert. In the past, the amber room was searched everywhere in the fortresses of Thuringia and the Saxon castle, through the wreck of a sunken ship in the North Sea and near the nest Eagle in Berchtesgaden, Adolf Hitler's summer residence. Andreas Uckert look, in fact, a patron who pays the costs of research. The Austrian paper also puts his phone number. Here it is, for those interested in a treasure hunt: +49 3306 204 71 98. Source
Corriere della Sera Paolo Torretta
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