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Unit11) Frederick William I, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an amazing history
2) However, the next king of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it
In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great
3 ) In return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers
4 ) So the Amber Room became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg
5) Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room moved to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers
6 ) This was a time when the two countries were at war
7) There is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea
8 ) After that, what happened to the Amb