Levy and Scott-Clark (The Stone of Heaven) devote as much space to. .Adult/High School–This title might seem at first to be small-scale popular history, telling the tale of one of the more ornate artifacts of the 18th century.

Levy and Scott-Clark (The Stone of Heaven) devote as much space to their efforts to sift through the sparse evidence as to their reconstructions, and though the story line is a bit muddled early on, when they also try to squeeze in the room's history, they eventually find a comfortable balance. Digging through files from former Soviet museums and the East German secret police, they retrace previous investigations and slowly realize just how valuable the missing room was to the Soviets as Cold War propaganda.

Traces the history of the Amber Room, once housed in a palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, and the many theories of its . Petersburg, Russia, and the many theories of its disappearance at the end of World War I.

Now, in a masterpiece of detection, investigative journalists Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy have at last unraveled the jumble of evidence surrounding the Amber Room's fate. Journeying through the f One of mankind's greatest treasures, the Amber Room stood as a symbol of Russian glory for over two hundred years. But after the Nazi invasion, it was never seen again.

Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy have gone farther along the trail of this great, lost treasure than . The Amber Room was one of mankind's greatest treasures, a masterpiece of staggering ambition and value.

Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy have gone farther along the trail of this great, lost treasure than anyone before them and, in a masterpiece of detection, have at last unraveled the jumble of evidence surrounding its fate.

Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are internationally renowned investigative journalists who worked as.

Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are internationally renowned investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for the Sunday Times of London for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondents. Their first book, The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade, was published to critical acclaim in 2001.

The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure . by Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark. Perhaps the greatest of those treasures was the amber room, given to Tsar Peter I in 1717 by Frederick William, King of Prussia. Made of the fossilized resin of prehistoric plants, the smoky panels of its walls stood 12 feet high, molded and carved in high baroque style.

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Adrian Levy Catherine Scott-Clark. Traces the history of the Amber Room, once housed in a palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia

Adrian Levy Catherine Scott-Clark. Petersburg, Russia.

The Amber Room was a masterpiece of staggering ambition and value. Commissioned by Frederick I of Prussia in 1701, its vast and intricately worked amber panels-many times more valuable than gold-were sent in 1717 as a gift to Peter the Great of Russia. The room was finally erected by Catherine the Great in her palace outside St. Petersburg, where it became legendary throughout the world ISBN: 0802714242 (Amber Art Objects, Russia).