article_snippet: The Amber Room - valued at around £250million in today's money - was looted from the palace of Peter the Great in Soviet Russia by invading Nazi troops in 1941.
article_snippet: the Amber Room seen in all the Amber Room glory in 1930 before the Amber Room was stolen from the Catherine Palace .
article_snippet: A complete restoration of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg, the original of which was plundered by the Nazis in World War Two, but has since disappeared .
article_snippet: Destroyed: Peter the Great received the Amber Room here as a gift from the King of Prussia in 1716 and brought the Amber Room here to Peter the Great new capital, St Petersburg.
article_snippet: Peter the Great Peter the Great received the Amber Room here as a gift from the King of Prussia in 1716 and brought the Amber Room here to his new capital, St PetersburgSt Petersburg.
article_snippet: In 1755, the Amber Room here was moved to the Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo, 17 miles south of the Imperial Russian capital.
article_snippet: The Catherine Palace in St Petersburg (as seen in 2010) where the Amber Room is housed .
article_snippet: Art haul: the Amber Room was plundered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis during the Second World War .
highlights_snippet: £250m room was looted from palace of Peter the Great by the Nazis in 1941 .
  