On a cold winter night in 1941, Nazi soldiers entered the grand halls of the Catherine Palace near Leningrad, Russia, and laid their hands on a treasure that had once been described as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” Within just a few days, they dismantled one of the most extraordinary creations of Baroque art: the Amber Room, a dazzling space lined with panels made entirely of amber, embellished with gold leaf, and inlaid with mirrors and semi-precious stones. As they packed the precious panels into crates and shipped them off to Königsberg, no one could have imagined that the…
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