As Mark Twain once remarked, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes.” In 1716, the King of Prussia – then Frederick William I – presented the ornate Baroque masterpiece, the Amber Room, to Tsar Peter the Great as a gesture of friendship between Prussia and Russia, honoring a Prussian-Russian alliance against Sweden. The lavish gift, a study in Baroque excesses, was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and installed in the Winter House in St. Petersburg.
Nord Stream 2: Germany’s gift to Putin throws Ukraine ‘under the bus’
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