The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

There is a small city called Svetlogorsk in the northwestern part of Kaliningrad today. It is a place that can't be found on this map with a larger scale. It produces the world's superb amber.

Moreover, the daily output of Nahe's huge amber mine reaches 3.5 tons, and the amber produced annually accounts for more than 90% of the world's total production!

The raw materials of the "Amber Palace" also come from that small city. Few people remember what the place was called during the Prussian period, but what can be known is that the "Amber Palace" used the top-notch, large pieces of amber!

With superb craftsmanship and fine carvings, the "Amber Palace" does not simply paste amber gravel into patterns on the four walls and ceiling guards, but all the wall panels are covered with beautiful amber carefully crafted by top craftsmen The painting, supplemented by expensive diamonds and various gemstones, combined with expensive dazzling silver foil stitching, constitutes this "Tianzi No. 1 Jewelry Box"!

Several bodyguards will lift up a huge and heavy amber siding, ready to repack it and transport it away-amber is a little heavier than water, and it is the lightest jewelry in the world, but it is too bulky to be light. .

There is an inlaid edge covered with gold leaf attached to one side of this board, giving the impression that it is a typical Tsarist Russia.

I have already packed two golden pedestals, which are completely Russian styles: others don't feel much, but Guan Xingquan and Xiang Weirong have been to the Soviet Union, and they feel more and more that this thing is full of the typical Russian splendor.

It's not like the German style at all!

"This is made by Germany?"

Guan Xingquan couldn't help but ask: It doesn't look like it looks right from the left!

Zhang Nan was looking at a newly opened small wooden box, which was full of jewels wrapped separately. After hearing Guan Xingquan's question, he said, "Amber Palace?"

"Well, I think it's like the taste of the Russian court, not a bit of German."

German taste, maybe it is rigorous and old-fashioned?

This is probably the prejudice of Guan Boss.

Zhang Nan put down a paper box in his hand and said, "Because the Russians have rebuilt the Amber Palace many times, and then it became like this.

Originally it was only 55 square meters. Now that Russian designs have been added several times, the Amber Palace demolished by the Germans is estimated to have more than 200 square meters. "

"This is 60 squares at most."

Guan Xingquan is very powerful in computing, and he can't read it wrong: Is it just a small part?

Zhang Nan smiled and said, "Germans will also take sheep hand in hand, and there are not only these amber siding, but also a lot of mirrors and paintings in that house."

He spoke and clicked around, "There is no painting here, and it is impossible to remove the connecting pillars and gold walls in the house. This Amber Palace has been rebuilt..."

After the Tsar Peter settled in Russia in the Amber Palace, he felt that he could make it more magnificent. He once ordered the Russian architect Rastrielli to expand and reinstall the Amber Palace, which not only enriched the interior of the Amber Palace, but also A mirror was placed in the house.

In this way, when more than 500 candles are lit at night, the entire Amber Palace is a beautiful and dreamy place!

After the reign of Queen Catherine, the powerful female czar was still dissatisfied with it. In 1743, the Amber Palace was transformed again, and once again let people be acquainted with gold-clad wood carvings, mirrors, and mosaics made of agate and jasper. The painting has been refined.

Moreover, amber is not a diamond, and its nature is unstable. After a long time in Russia, the Amber Palace naturally encountered preservation problems.

St. Petersburg has a high latitude and the temperature changes greatly throughout the year. In winter, indoor heating needs to be heated, otherwise people will freeze to death!

It's minus thirty or forty degrees, if you don't want to get warm, it's not a joke.

Moreover, there are often rapid winds between the palace buildings, strong winds and large temperature differences that occur every year, all of which affect to varying degrees the fading, de-glueing and shedding of various ornaments and artworks in the Amber Palace.

In order to maintain the state of the Amber Palace, Tsarist Russia carried out large-scale repairs to the Amber Palace in 1833, 1865, and 1893 to 1897, and the Soviet government from 1933 to 1935.

The biggest repair of the Amber Palace by the Soviet Union was in 1941, the year the Soviet-German War broke out.

"...After so many repairs, it has long become a treasure with Russian characteristics.

Otherwise, after this thing disappears, the Russian will not be so crazy. It is estimated that even the Germans will not think that the Amber Palace is still a German-style thing. "

Prussia created the original Amber Palace, and Russian talents perfected it.

These in the box are actually the most essential part of the Amber Palace, and the matching decorations are not there at all. Those who can't be demolished are still in the Soviet Union. God knows where the ones that can be demolished are.

Maybe it was destroyed by war, maybe it was hidden by a certain collector...Anything is possible~www.readwn.com~Zhang Nan only knows that later the German government once found two small chests that originally belonged to the Amber Palace and An oil painting was returned to Russia around 2000.

Those were all hidden by German officials when the German army occupied the Catherine Palace. They were not shipped to East Prussia in a box, and only appeared after the merger of the two Germanys.

The holder wanted to sell some money, but was immediately confiscated by the German government, and then returned to Russia not long after.

The big car of famous paintings Zhang Nan "moved" from the outskirts of Munich was searched from a private person. If he did not "move" the flowers, those paintings would eventually be seized by the German government and temporarily seized by the German government. Which painting was returned to the descendants of the original holder.

Because it is a private person: to the country, the general "private person" is just a small ant, not even an ant, who will bird you!

But Mao Zi is different. Even though Russia is not the Soviet Union, the conference in 2000 could no longer be compared with the former Red Empire. But a lean camel is bigger than a horse. This is the energy of the country.

That's why this "Amber Palace" made Zhang Nan feel a headache: Mao doesn't have to reason with you at all for this stuff!

The Amber Palace in the mine is intact but incomplete. If Zhang Nan wants to rebuild and restore its brilliance and magnificence in 1941, even if he can do it in a fair manner, it is estimated that it will cost tens of millions of dollars to restore his quilt The final look before disassembly: the price of the famous paintings to be matched is not counted!

Of course, if Zhang Nan does that, regardless of the risks involved, there is no shortage of well-known paintings that need to be matched. Who calls him even Repin's paintings, the world estimates that no collector has as many Western famous paintings as himself!

Just think about it, it can't be achieved.

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