This gift was the Amber Room,   (1)  was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was   (2)  had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy    (3)    popular in those days. It was also a treasure  (4)     with gold and jewels, which took the country' s best artists about ten years to make.
However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room   (5)     , decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a    (6)    of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar' s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small   (7)      hall for important visitors.
However, some of the Nazis secretly   (8)   the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no    (9)     that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room   (10)    a mystery.