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Kaliningrad & KoenigsbergKaliningrad & Koenigsberg

Mikhail Ogorodnikov

Keeper of the Keys

Founder and editor of VisitPrussia.com. More than a quarter of a century in the media. For the past ten years he has worked professionally on tourism portals for Russian regions.

The "Blood Court" and Other Wine Cellars

There were no refrigerators, so wine was stored and served in cellars

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Cat's Descent

Löbenicht's exotic footpath

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Mill Quarter

Between Bergplatz and Schlossplatz

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The Flamingo Corner

The quietest spot in the Königsberg Tiergarten

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The Botanical Garden

Herbert Mühlpfordt's version

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New Market

Admiral Tributs Embankment west of the Second Overpass

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Colourful Königsberg

Why the gate was Green, the tower Yellow and the crane Red

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Curious Episodes from the History of East Prussian Baking

What Königsberg bread was like

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The Curonian Spit

The largest sand spit in the world. A national park.

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Sea Shipping Canal

Designed and built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Considerably expanded after the Second World War

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Drinking Water Canal (Landgraben)

A hydraulic structure from the days of the Teutonic Order still meets about 15% of Kaliningrad’s needs

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A Many-Kilometre Oak Alley

A many-kilometre oak alley

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"Eight Blocks of the Altstadt"

Presentation of the MARKHI initiative project "Eight Blocks of the Altstadt" (2017)

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A Russian Soldier Taken Prisoner at Tannenberg Who Made It Back to Moscow

Yekaterina Semyonovna Zhivopistseva tells the story of her father, a soldier taken prisoner by the Germans at Tannenberg in 1914 who escaped in 1919.

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