Chapter 1300

As soon as rokosovsky finished, vatujing went on to say, "after Peter the great accepted the gift of Frederick I, he put it in the winter palace as a small reception room for important guests. Later, the Czar Ekaterina sent people to move the amber room to Ekaterina palace in Pushkin, a suburb of Leningrad. "

As soon as watujing finished, I asked curiously, "since this amber room is so precious, why didn't we transfer it in time after the war broke out?"

After looking at each other, vatukin and rokosovsky sighed and said, "as the German army's speed of advance exceeded our imagination, they rushed to the outskirts of Leningrad in just over a month. We simply did not have enough time and manpower to carry out the transfer of cultural relics. Even so, the staff of the almitash Museum, in a very short period of time, will be up to a million pieces of collection, safely transported to Yekaterinburg, located in the Eurasian boundary

When we were talking, the curator came over and asked, "where are the other cultural relics?"

I know he must have learned from kirilov that there are still two rooms with a lot of cultural relics. Seeing his anxious face, I didn't care about his rudeness. Instead, I politely said, "Comrade curator, please follow me. I'll show you the cultural relics in the box."

We all came to the big room with wooden boxes. As soon as we entered the door, the curator could not wait to ask, "are these the cultural relics seized? Do you have a list? "

Commander Carmela, who had been waiting in the room for a long time, agreed: "yes, but it's all German. We can't understand it."

"Give me the list quickly," the curator said in an unquestionable voice, staring at the pile of wooden cases. "I can read German."

From a drawer of a table near the door, Carmela took out a thick, large notepad and handed it to the curator. After the curator took it, he couldn't wait to read it without saying a word of thanks. I watched him turn the book quickly, and my heart said, with such a fast speed, can I find what he wants?

Just as I surmised, the curator stopped reading. He walked quickly to the wooden box with the book in his hand and examined one of the boxes carefully. After a while, he turned to watujing and said, "senior general, please send some soldiers to find the wooden boxes with the number of" 4108 "and move them out."

After he finished, watujing winked at me and motioned for me to send soldiers to assist the curator. I immediately understood his hint and told Carmela: "Comrade commander, send two classes of soldiers to come and ask them to help the curator find the wooden box with the number of 4108."

"Yes Carmela agreed, turned and walked out of the room.

I heard vatukin ask rokosovsky in a low voice: "dear koschka, why do you think the curator wants to find the wooden box that starts with" 4108 "

"If I remember correctly, Ekaterina Palace should have been occupied by the German in August 1941?" Rokosovsky replied in a low voice: "the Germans numbered the boxes according to the time of plunder."

After listening to rokosovsky's explanation, vatukin nodded and said with approval, "koschka, you have a good point." He took a look at the curator who was walking back and forth in front of the wooden box pile with the account book, and added, "do you think you can find the amber room in these wooden boxes?"

Rokosovsky shook his head slightly and said uncertainly, "it's hard to say. It depends on whether we have good luck."

While listening to the conversation between them, I suddenly had an impression of the amber room in my mind. It seemed that when I heard enough about it. So I frowned and began to remember. When I think about it, I really remember what happened to the amber room. It seems that I have been missing since I was plundered by the German army in the patriotic war. Later, in 2003, in order to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg, Germany and Russia copied the historical photos of the amber house. The appearance of the new amber house is very similar to the original one.

As soon as the gate of memory opened, I thought of more information about amber room. It is said that before the Soviet army retreated from yekaterina palace, in order to prevent the amber room from being discovered by the Germans, after removing some furniture and small pieces of art ornaments, they pasted a new layer of wallpaper in an attempt to cover up the true face of the amber room. Unfortunately, the German soldiers saw through such a trick, so the amber room was demolished and transported to Konigsberg by train.

When I recalled the contents related to the amber room, I immediately realized that the amber room could not be found here, because the Germans had already transported the broken up amber room to other places, and our search here became ridiculous. I saw that rokosovsky and vatujing were still talking in a low voice. They coughed softly. When they stopped talking, they asked, "comrades commander, where is Konigsberg?"

"It's a German city on the Baltic Sea." After answering my question, rokosovsky asked curiously, "what's the matter, Rita, do you think of anything?"

Just at this time, Colonel Carmela came in with a group of soldiers. When the curator saw them, he immediately accused Carmela impolitely: "Comrade commander, how slow are you? Do you know how long you have been out? Five minutes, five minutes away? Do you know how many things will be delayed in these five minutes? "

Carmela was inexplicably scolded a few words, his face showed a bitter expression. Seeing that he was in such a dilemma, I quickly helped him out and said, "well, comrade commander, let your people start working. Remember to move out all the wooden boxes whose numbers start with" 4108. ". Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade commander." Carmela agreed, and he directed the soldiers to look for the wooden boxes I said.

"Rita," rokosovsky asked me again at this time, "why did you just ask about Konigsberg?"

"Comrade General," I replied in a low voice, "I just remembered who I had heard before that the German broke up the amber room after plundering it and packed it up and transported it to Konigsberg by train..."

"What, Gothenburg?" Although my voice was not loud, I was heard by the paranoid curator. He rushed to me, waved his fist and said in a loud voice: "it is impossible for the Germans to transport the amber room to Konigsberg. According to our information, the amber room was transported to Kiev and is ready to be transferred from here to Berlin."

Seeing that the curator was so stubborn, I couldn't say anything more. I had to shrug my shoulders. Then I closed my mouth quietly and watched Carmela and a group of soldiers move the wooden boxes numbered "4108" from the pile of wooden boxes to the open space.

We stood by and waited for an hour. When we saw that about forty wooden cases had been piled up, the curator raised his hand and said, "stop, stop, first pry these cases open to see if they are what we are looking for."

When I saw a soldier prying the lid of a wooden box with a crowbar, I wondered in my heart whether the box was filled with ancient Greek sculptures or ancient Roman vases after it was opened? So as soon as the lid is lifted, I'll look over to see what's going on. No, it's OK. After seeing it, I don't want to look away from the box.

The wooden box was not a sculpture or a vase, but a pile of tortoise shells and animal bones. Looking at the symbols carved on them, I recognized at a glance that these oracle bones with characters were the famous oracle bone inscriptions. Then the wooden boxes were filled with cultural relics from the East, including rare silk and embroidery, porcelain, enamel, lacquerware, as well as calligraphy and painting of some ancient masters.

When I saw that these may be valuable cultural relics stolen from the capital in the Far East when the Russian army joined the eight Nation Alliance, I suddenly had the idea of taking all these cultural relics as my own. I planned to return them to their original owners at a suitable time in the future, so that these cultural relics, which were exiled in other countries, could return to my motherland one day.

When I was daydreaming, I suddenly heard a loud noise, which scared me. I looked in the direction of the sound, and saw the curator slam his account book on the ground, and then trample on it with his feet.

"Calm down, comrade curator, please keep calm!" Seeing that the curator's mood was out of control, watujing, who had been standing beside him and didn't speak, quickly came forward to persuade him, "do you want to continue looking for the amber room?"

"What else are you looking for?" The curator pointed to the account book on the ground and said indignantly, "according to the above records, as many as 50 wooden cases with serial numbers beginning with" 4108 "were transported away a few days ago."

Hearing what the curator said, watujing turned to look at me and asked, "Comrade oshanina, have you interrogated the prisoners? What's the matter?"

As soon as his voice fell, Carmela, who was standing beside him, took a step towards him, straightened up and said aloud, "Comrade commander of the front army, I personally interrogated the prisoners. Do you want me to report them to you?"

Watujing nodded at him, then said faintly, "well, comrade commander, please report."

"Comrades commander," Carmela reported, "because during the fighting, the German commander in the base was killed, and the officer in charge of the cultural relics left along with the convoy carrying the cultural relics. So no one of these ordinary soldiers knows what is put here, let alone where the things transported by car will be sent. "

"I see, comrade commander." Watujing waved to Carmela, and then asked the curator, "Comrade curator, please forgive me for asking a question that has puzzled me for a long time. Is that ok? "

The curator looked up at watujing with blank eyes and said feebly, "Comrade watujing, if you have any questions, just ask them."

"Comrade curator, I just learned that there is a Michelangelo sculpture in this room, which is the treasure of your museum. Am I right? "

"Yes, the cultural relic you mentioned is indeed one of the treasures of our museum." The curator nodded and answered in a positive tone.

"But the Germans didn't enter Leningrad at all. How could they get this cultural relic?" "Even if you didn't move it to Yekaterinburg in the rear, you'd seal it up in the basement of your museum, but it's so strange that it's here now," vatujing asked strangely

"It's no surprise, comrade watujing." The curator sighed and said, "we have a train carrying cultural relics. Not long after it left Leningrad, it was bombed by German planes. The railway ahead was blown off. The train full of cultural relics couldn't move on. It had to stop. As a result, it was captured by the encircled German army. " The words of the curator let us understand why there are so many relics in the almitash museum here. They should have been safely stored in Yekaterinburg, but they became the spoils of the German army in the wrong circumstances. However, I still can't figure out why these cultural relics were sent to Kiev instead of being sent there, since the German army could transport the amber room to Konigsberg by train? When the curator heard my question, he was unexpectedly not angry, but patiently explained to me: "according to the German plan, Leningrad and Moscow will be flooded and become a swamp after they are occupied. Kiev will establish a pro German puppet political power. In order to whitewash the peace, they will certainly transport many important cultural relics here to decorate the appearance of the puppets to be set up soon. " I found that when the curator was calm, his words were very organized. At least he could give a good reason why the German army did not transport the cultural relics back to Berlin through Konigsberg, but to Kiev“ Comrade curator, what do you want us to do? " After he finished, watujing asked with concern, "do you need me to send a special force to help you find the missing amber room?" To my ears, there is obviously a perfunctory and shirking of responsibility in vatukin's words. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the curator immediately nodded his head like a rattle: "Comrade watujing, if so, that would be great. In order to prevent the German from transporting the amber room back to Germany, I implore you to set up this treasure hunting force immediately. "“ Comrade o'shanina, your troops are all around here. " Vatukin turned to look at me and said, "then I will give you this glorious and arduous task. I don't know if you have any suitable candidates? " Without waiting for me to speak, kirilov came close to me and whispered, "Rita, Captain travkin's reconnaissance team should be working nearby. We can give this task to them."