The Amber Room comes alive with an amber-tinted, crest-adorned wallpaper that demands attention. The wallpaper replicates that in a Victorian mansion in Walla Walla, Washington. A curved wall and two tall windows add character to this stately chamber. The room is decorated appropriately with amber-tinted lights and a wall hanging imported from Russia that features genuine amber.
This room is named for the original Amber Room in St. Petersburg, Russia, which was dismantled before the German invasion during World War II. Dr. Henry Smyser, after serving as a surgeon in the Russian military during the Crimea war, was decorated by Czar Alexander II in the famous Amber Room. The original Amber Room has not been revealed since it was dismantled—some believe it was taken by the Nazis, some believe it is in hiding, and others believe the bits and pieces have been disbanded and lost forever. But whatever the original room's fate, you can visit this Amber Room, once enjoyed by a man who set foot in the original.
