Research Catalog

Title

The Amber Room : the fate of the world's greatest lost treasure / Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy.

Author

Scott-Clark, Cathy, 1965-

Publication

New York : Walker & Company, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Levy, Adrian, 1965-

Description

xxx, 386 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Traces the history of the Amber Room, once housed in a palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, and the many theories of its disappearance at the end of World War II, and recounts the authors' search and conclusion.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Amber art objects > Pushkin
• Art treasures in war > Pushkin
• Ekaterininskiĭ dvoret︠s︡-muzeĭ. I︠A︡ntarnai︠a︡ komnata
• World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war

Genre/Form

Art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-376) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Dramatis personae -- Maps -- Introduction -- Amber room -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0802714242 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004049625

OCLC

55085821

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library