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22. Kuchumov and Voronov, The Amber Room.
23. Ibid.
24. Diary of Peter the Great, second part, Hermitage Library, St Petersburg, 1772.
25. Kuchumov and Voronov, The Amber Room. One taler was equivalent to just under an ounce (23.4 g) of silver.
26. Ibid.
27. 'The Amber Room of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace', Ruskii Vestnik, November 1877, Vol. 132, p. 391.
28. The Letters of the Russian Tsars, Hermitage Library, Moscow, 1861, p. 5.
29. M. P. Putzillo, 'The Beginning of Friendship between Russia and Prussia: Russian Giants in Prussian Service, 1711-1746', Ruskii Vestnik, March 1878, Vol. 134, pp. 376-92.
30. Ibid., p. 391.
31. Ibid.
32. Russian State Archive for Ancient Documents - Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov (RGADA): Collection 11, Inventory 53, File 1, p. 9.
33. RGADA: Collection 9, Inventory 33, File 103.
34. RGADA: Collection 2, Inventory 34, File 417, p. 404.
35. O. N. Kuznetsova, The Summer Garden and Summer Palace of Peter I, Lenizdat, Leningrad, 1988, pp. 22-4.
36. Pravda means 'truth' and Izvestiya means 'news', literally the 'News of the Councils of Working People's Deputies of the USSR'.
CHAPTER 2
1. Author interviews with professor from Leningrad University.
2. Personalities of St Petersburg, www.ceo.spb.ru.
3. V. Telemakov, 'Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures', unpublished manuscript, 1986.
4. National Archives (NA): HW/5/29, Commander Saunders, 9 September, 1941.
5. PRO: CX/MSS/237, Commander Saunders, 13 September 1941.
6. Kuchumov Archive, TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 108, contains a similar account by Curator Popova.
7. Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Viking, London, 2002.
8. W. Bruce Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight, Basic Books, New York, 2000.
9. Anna Podorozhnik Akhmatova, Plantain, Petropolis, Petrograd, 1921.
10. Telemakov, Secrets of Saving Museum Treasures.
11. Helen Dunmore, The Siege, Penguin, London, 2001.
12. Lincoln, Sunlight at Midnight.
13. RGADA: Collection 467, Inventory 2 (73/87), File 87b, pp. 523-4.
14. Ibid.
15. Approximately 100 lb of silver.
16. RGADA: Collection 470, Inventory 6, File 30, pp. 18,19 and 32.
17. RGADA: Collection 470, Inventory 1 (82/516), File 9, p. 1 (1746).
18. Henri Troyat, Catherine the Great, Phoenix Press, London, 2000.
19. Ibid, and Laurence Kelly, St Petersburg: a Travellers' Companion, Constable, London, 1998.
20. A. M. Kuchumov, and M.G. Voronov, The Amber Room, Khudozhnik RFSSR, Leningrad, 1989.
21. Theophile Gautier, Voyage en Russie, Paris, 1866.
22. Dr Norman Paul Forster's testimony, given at Nuremberg, 14 February 1946.
23. Author archive.
24. Unpublished letters from Anatoly Kuchumov, author archive. For more letters, see Susanne Massie, Pavlovsk, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1990.
CHAPTER 3
1. Kuchumov archive: TGALI 468, Opus 1, File 123.
2. A selection of Gorky's letters, including this one and several others to Stalin, is in the Library of Congress's Soviet Archive. A facsimile of this one can also be found on www.ibiblio.org/pjones/russian/outline.html.
3. W. Derham, The Philosphical Experiments and Observations of the Late Eminent Dr Robert Hooke, London, 1726, p. 315.
4. Adam of Bremen, quoted in A. Spekke, The Ancient Amber Routes and the Geographical Discovery of the Baltic, Stockholm, 1957.
5. J. M. de Navarro, 'Prehistoric Routes Between Northern Europe and Italy Defined by the Amber Trade', Geographical Journal, Vol. LXVI, No. 6, London, December 1925.
6. Olaus Magnus, Carta Marina, Venice, 1539. See also Olaus Magnus, De Gentibus Septentrionalibus, Rome, 1555
7. P. J. Hartmann, Succini Prussici, physica et civilis historia, Frankfurt, 1677, appendix 1, translation into German of Simonis Grunovii's 1521 account, entitled Amber and Its Sources.
8. Gotthard Treitschke, Origins of Prussianism: The Teutonic Knights, G. Allen and Unwin, London, 1942.
9. Central State Archive of Moscow: Collection 8, Opus 659, File 2.
10. Antony Beevor, Berlin, The Downfall 194s, Viking, London, 2002.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Paul Enke, Bernsteinzimmer Report,