Private tour of the Catherine´s palace/Amber room - local guide and transport

This private tour with a local guide and private transport starts from your hotel, port or other preffered location and takes you to the Catherine Palace which is named after Catherine I, the wife of Peter the Great, built in 1717. Chief Architect of the Imperial Court, was instructed to redesign the building on a scale to rival Versailles.The castle is famous thanks to its Amber room. The amber panels framing the hall were given as a diplomatic gift to Peter the Great by the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I. Empress Elisaveta Petrovna decided to decorate one of the halls in the central suite of her countryside palace with the amber panels. Panels of amber were looted by the Nazis. They were taken to Konigsberg, and in 1944 have disappeared. During four decades several missions were organized to discover the Amber Room, and all was in vain. In 1980-1990s painstaking complete restoration has taken place. The skilled restorers have brought Amber Room back to life.