transatlantic slave trade. About 20,000 people were trafficked from West Africa to the Caribbean over a 30-year period. King Frederick I initially continued his father’s colonial politics to expand his power. Contact
region, in which Denmark and Saxony had suffered bitter defeats against the king of Sweden for many years. As host, the Prussian king took advantage of the meeting to present his guests with the magnificence
хорошое слово”, “Victory is a fine word” Two sets of Cyrillic graffiti, “Victory is a fine word” and the year “1945”, which Soviet soldiers scratched onto the walls of the Blue Gallery, are among the few surviving
Brandenburg and Berlin, which attract more than 3.5 million visitors from Germany and abroad every year. These include the Sanssouci and Cecilienhof palaces in Potsdam, the New Palace in Berlin, and Ch
Quadriga increased considerably. The perceived humiliation, combined with the important sculpture’s eight-year absence and triumphant return, all packaged and presented with a fair amount of propaganda, brought
event? During the Boxer Rebellion in China, assaults were made on foreigners at the beginning of the year 1900. These attacks were a reaction to suppressions enforced by the European powers as well as the
testify to Frederick II’s fondness for this fragile material. During the Silesian Wars and Seven Years’ War, the king not only used his military presence in Meissen to place large orders with the local
primarily concerned with refurbishing numerous palaces following German Reunification, while in recent years their focus has shifted to extensive building measures taking place in connection with Master Plan
struggle for international recognition had accomplished an important milestone. Only one-and-a-half years prior to this, the two German states were accepted into the United Nations. This had become possible
known publically in 2015. Since its creation the work of art had not left Rome. In 1816, the same year he produced the marble bust of Elena (born 1797), he also produced a bust of the younger sister Vittoria
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under the domain of the conservators’ responsibilities. The staff of this specialist department have years of experience and accumulated knowledge, both of the special workmanship used in the Prussian palaces
