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scratched onto the walls of the Blue Gallery, are among the few surviving reminders of the Red Army’s occupation at the end of the Second World War still preserved in the Prussian palaces today. During the final [...] Red Army trophy brigade, which was tasked with bringing tens of thousands of works of art from the Prussian palaces to the Soviet Union. During the war (since 1941), German occupying forces in the USSR had

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 of his palaces. The [...] and the Silver Chamber, the Porcelain Chamber, with its magnificent collection of more than 5,000 blue-and-white East Asian porcelain objects, was the palace’s main showpiece. In 1717, when Augustus the [...] Japanese Palace in Dresden, he recalled the impressive collection he had seen in Oranienburg. The new Prussian king, Frederick William I, whose establishment of a strong army later earned him the nickname “The