And a week later, Andrei received an urgent order from his superiors, Unit A immediately assembled and evacuated, and at the same time, the GRU's special forces would take over the task of raiding and harassing in the future, and Andrei collected his troops and returned to the headquarters of the Front, and saw that Crochkov actually came in person and there was an old man next to him, the old man was dressed in a gray coat, he looked less like a soldier and more like an intellectual, what was he doing?

And Krochkov went straight to the point: "I came here to get information that the Germans had other cultural relics from the "Amber Room" in the St. Petersburg Palace in Leningrad, and that they had begun to transfer them under the control of the German army, and in order to protect the wealth of the motherland, Unit A would send an elite treasure hunting team to find the whereabouts of the cultural relics so that the Red Army could recover the wealth of the motherland when counterattacking in the future." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Andrei didn't react for a while, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What is the Amber Room?" ”

Hearing that Andrei knew nothing about the Amber Room, Crochkov told him about it: "The 'Amber Room' was built in 1709 by King Frederick I of Prussia on the orders of the most famous architect in Prussia in order to emulate the luxurious life of King Louis XIV of France. The entire 'Amber Room' covers an area of about 55 square meters, with a total of 12 wall panels and 12 bases, all made of amber, which was 12 times more expensive than gold at the time, and weighs at least 6 tons. In 1716, King Wilhelm I of Prussia presented this rare treasure to Tsar Peter the Great in order to form an alliance with Russia.

Later, Peter the Great, having accepted this gift from Frederick I, placed it in the Hermitage as a small reception room for important guests. Later, the female Tsarina Catherine sent someone to move the amber room to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, a suburb of Leningrad. ”

After hearing this, Andrei asked curiously: "Since this amber room is so precious, why didn't we transfer it in time after the outbreak of war?" ”

Crochkov sighed and said: "Because the German army advanced faster than we imagined, in just over a month, they rushed to the outskirts of Leningrad, and we simply did not have enough time and manpower to carry out the transfer of cultural relics. Even so, the staff of the Hermitage Museum safely transported the collection of more than a million pieces to Yekaterinburg, on the border between Europe and Asia, in a very short time. ”

And the memories of his previous life, which had been far away, suddenly poured into him at this moment, and he seemed to have heard enough about it in his previous life. If you think about it, what happened to the Amber Room seems to have been missing since it was plundered by the Germans in the Great Patriotic War. Later, in 2003, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, the Germans and Russians made a reproduction based on historical photographs of the Amber Room, and the new Amber Room looked very similar to the original.

As soon as the floodgates of memory opened, more information about the Amber Room came flooding back. It is said that before the Soviet troops retreated from the Catherine Palace, in order to prevent the Amber Room from being discovered by the Germans, they removed some of the furniture and small art ornaments in the house, and also 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 dismantled and transported by train to Königsberg.

As soon as I remembered what had to do with the Amber Room, I immediately knew that if I couldn't find the Amber Room now, I wouldn't have a chance, and even if I couldn't find the Amber Room, I would have to find other artifacts from the Hermitage Museum!

The old man was the director of the Hermitage Museum, who took out a list and said, "Major Yakov, these are the lists of cultural relics that were looted by the Germans when we evacuated, you must find their whereabouts!" ”

Andrei took the list, he saw the expectation and eagerness in the curator's eyes, Andrei remembered a lot, wasn't his motherland in his previous life the same? Countless treasures were taken out of China by the great powers, and the major British museums and libraries collected about 1.3 million pieces of cultural relics from the Chinese dynasties, most of which were illegally looted from China by the invaders during the modern colonial period. Among them, the British Museum has more than 30,000 pieces of rare national treasures such as Chinese paintings and calligraphy, ancient books, jade, pottery, porcelain, bronzes, and carvings. These cultural relics cover nearly 7,000 years of Chinese history, and many of them are unique pieces that have never been seen. For example, Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Atlas" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty collected treasures for the court of the past dynasties, the Tang Dynasty facsimile, the son of Li Xiaobin of the early Tang Dynasty clan and the general of Zuo Wuwei, Li Sixun's "Green Landscape Map", the representative of the Jiangnan School of Painting in the early Song Dynasty, Ju Ran's "Dense Forest Stacking Map", one of the three great masters of the Northern Song Dynasty, the SX painter Fan Kuan's "Visiting Friends with the Qin", the "Huayan Disguised Picture" by Li Gonglin, who is known as the Longmian Layman, and the "Ink Bamboo Picture" of Su Shi, a great writer of the Song Dynasty. In addition, there are Shang Dynasty bronze double sheep statue, Western Zhou Dynasty Kanghou bronze Gui, Xinghou Gui, Dunhuang murals, Han Dynasty jade carving dragon, Tang Dynasty topaz sitting dog, etc., these have also become the treasure of the museum.

-- French museums and libraries have collected about 2.6 million pieces of cultural relics from the Chinese dynasties, all of which were illegally plundered from China during the period of modern colonialism. The Louvre Museum has more than 30,000 pieces of Chinese cultural relics, including more than 6,000 pieces of painted pottery, Shang and Zhou bronzes, and porcelain from primitive societies. Its branch, the Guimet Museum, also collects tens of thousands of Chinese cultural relics, accounting for more than half of the total number of cultural relics in the museum's collection. Among them, there are 12,000 pieces of ceramics from previous dynasties, ranking first in the collection of Chinese ceramics in overseas museums. In addition, the number of Chinese cultural relics in museums such as Paris is comparable to that of the Louvre. The National Library of France has a collection of more than 10,000 Dunhuang cultural relics, including silk manuscripts from the Northern Wei Dynasty, gold manuscripts from the Sui Dynasty, silk embroidery books from the Tang Dynasty, golden books from the Tang Dynasty, Wanli engravings from the Ming Dynasty, maps of the 10,000-year period of the Qing Dynasty, and 40 poems from the Old Summer Palace. Among them, the three kinds of Tang rubbings of Dunhuang calligraphy and painting are unique and rare treasures.

-- RB has more than 1,000 large and small museums, with a total collection of nearly 2 million pieces of cultural relics from the Chinese dynasties, most of which were looted by the RB invading army during the invasion of BJ by the Eight-Nation Coalition and the RB invasion of China. The Tokyo National Museum alone has a collection of more than 90,000 pieces of cultural relics from the Chinese dynasties. Among them, there are countless treasures and unique items, far more than ordinary museums in China, such as the famous painter Ma Yuan of the Southern Song Dynasty's "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map", which is still detained in it; In addition, Wang Xizhi's "Sister to the Post", "Dingwu Lanting Preface", "Seventeen Posts", "Jiwang Shengjiao Preface", and "Li Baiqi's Manuscript" from the Qianliang era are also rare cultural relics and treasures that are stored in different museums of RB. According to the statistics of the Chinese government, since the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a total of 1,879 boxes of cultural property were plundered by RB, and 741 historic sites were destroyed.

-- All major museums in Germany have a large number of ancient Chinese cultural relics, and according to the relevant publications of the country, the total number of documented cultural relics is about 300,000. These Chinese cultural relics mainly came to Germany through two channels: the Eight-Nation Coalition captured BJ, and the early 20th century stolen from China in the name of archaeology. Taking 1902-1905 as an example, in three years, the German expedition transported a total of 400 boxes of antiquities in the Turpan and Kuqa areas. Among them are the never-before-discovered portrait frescoes of Meniz, the founder of Manichaeism, as well as many rare handwritten documents, textiles, coins, etc. But the museum that houses these artifacts was devastated by the bombing of World War II, with more than half of the hundreds of murals lost, more than 20 of the more than 20 murals of Berzcreek reduced to ashes, and nearly 300 statues half destroyed.

-- Tsarist Russia, one of the "Eight-Nation Alliance," did not plunder cultural relics from China in those years, but strangely enough, after the war, people rarely saw those cultural relics in the museums of the former Soviet Union. The reporter consulted a large number of historical documents and discovered the secrets of the period: some of the Chinese cultural relics plundered by the Russian army were sold by the exiled old Tsarist nobles to their new country of residence, and the other part was because the two countries belonged to the same socialist camp at that time, and the Soviet government did not allow these "war trophies" that clearly bore the mark of the aggression of the Tsarist Empire to be made public in the market, but hid them in some research institutions. In the catalogue of the collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies in St. Petersburg, clues were found in the plundering of Chinese cultural relics by Tsarist Russia, where there are not only cultural relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, but also 120,000 pieces of more precious Dunhuang testaments, which rank second in the world, second only to China itself. There are only 20,000 Dunhuang testaments in China, and the rest are divided by Britain, France, Japan, Austria, Sweden and other countries。。。。。。。

These robbers, so Andrei saluted the curator after a moment of silence, and then said: "Comrade curator, we will definitely find them, I assure you." ”

And after carefully looking at the list, Andrei asked: "I want to ask me a strange question. May I? ”

The curator looked up at Andrei with blank eyes, and said weakly: "Comrade Yakov, if you have any questions, just ask!" ”

Andrei asked cautiously: "Comrade Curator, I just learned that among these cultural relics there is a sculpture by Michelangelo, which is the treasure of your museum. Am I right? ”

"That's right, the cultural relics you mentioned are indeed one of the treasures in our museum." The curator nodded and replied in the affirmative.

"But the Germans didn't enter Leningrad at all, so how did they get this artifact?" Vatutin asked curiously: "Even if you hadn't moved it to Yekaterinburg in the rear, you would have sealed it in the basement of your museum, but how could it fall into the hands of the Germans, it's so strange." ”

"Nothing strange, Comrade Yakov." The curator sighed and said: "We have a train carrying artifacts that was bombed by German planes just after leaving Leningrad in October. The railroad ahead was blown up, and the train full of artifacts could not continue to move forward, so it had to stop, only to be captured by the German troops who surrounded it. ”

The curator's words told Andrei the answer, these things should have been safely stored in Yekaterinburg, but who knew that they became trophies of the German army under the wrong circumstances.

And then Crochkov asked: "Andrey, how are you going to carry out this great and glorious mission?"

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