Twelve years of Nazism and five and a half years of war are a drop in the ocean compared with the path this city travelled, growing from a small village at the edge of the world into one of Europe's leading capitals
How the Great Elector chased the Swedes across the ice by sleigh
The story of one of the world's largest archaeological collections, assembled in pre-war Königsberg
How the heiress to one of Prussia’s most illustrious family names became Germany’s most influential journalist.
A peasant's son from the backwoods of Tver could hardly have imagined that Königsberg in Prussia would one day be renamed in his honour
27 October marks 173 years since the birth of the architect Friedrich Heitmann
The Russian army's victory at Gross-Jägersdorf could have been the first step towards routing the army defending East Prussia, but it was not...
Napoleon rode into the city through their gates, Kant strolled along their ramparts, and the young Peter I studied their design.
The life story of the famous Königsberg artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz
The great astronomer's achievements include calculating the orbital elements of Halley's Comet, determining the masses of several planets and develop…
A church, a museum with storerooms and a library, a court, a restaurant and several offices
Once a popular place for an outing, the Bismarck towers still have tourist potential today. All that is needed is to preserve the little that remains…
In the 18th century, East Prussia was a governorate of the Russian Empire for five years
How the Teutonic Order was organized
The last eyewitness account placing its crates in Königsberg's Royal Castle dates from the fifth of April 1945.
Veruschka von Lehndorff, who could have perished in Buchenwald but instead became a world-famous supermodel
The blue that made Prussia famous: Preußisch Blau
Copernicus, the man who “stopped the Sun and moved the Earth,” was handed the most daunting of roles: to become the founder of the heliocentric syste…
Michael Willmann was a Baroque painter from Königsberg who worked in Silesia and won fame throughout Europe.
The biography of one of the most famous German painters, who was born in Tapiau (Gvardeysk), studied in Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and went on to achie…
An interview with the Hungarian sociologist Pál Tamás, honorary doctor of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Летняя кампания 1914 года на территории Восточной Пруссии
From Violet Hill to the Devau airfield
A three-day winter air race between two aces
Bolotov's stay in Prussia ended together with the war
The return to Prussia and the occupation of Königsberg
The adventures of a twenty-year-old Russian lad in Prussia at the time of the Seven Years' War
The beginning of the Seven Years' War. The summer campaign of 1757. The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf
Why the gate was Green, the tower Yellow and the crane Red
The tradition was brought to Königsberg from a victorious campaign in Austria
Through hardships to the stars
Роман о крупнейшей в истории морской катастрофе
From Königsberg to Rauschen in just three hours!
The dramatic history of Königsberg's Temple of Melpomene
The two main resorts of East Prussia
Königsberg in the Belle Époque
The events at Tilsit through the eyes of the saga's main characters
Karamzin's meditative journey to Europe by way of Königsberg in the late 1780s
One of the beautiful traditions of old Königsberg
A tour of the coast from Cranz to Pillau
An old local tradition that could grace Kaliningrad
Prussian commerce before, during and after the Continental Blockade
The music of Königsberg
An ode to German order, East Prussian edition
From quicksand to the geese of Sarkau
An outstanding description of the town and the region
The most prosperous town in Prussia through the eyes of a Russian traveller
First impressions of the city in 1814
A chapter from a book never before translated into Russian
Between the Napoleonic Wars and the age of Bismarck
The Curonian Spit and today's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the early 19th century
A semi-precious fossilised resin of coniferous trees
A port city where everything happens on the banks of the river
Typically Prussian, yet unlike any other
The city on the Pregel in the mid-19th century
You had to make yourself heard — and shout everyone else down
Pastoral Samland on the eve of the Belle Époque
Kant's city in the post-Napoleonic era
When good roads came to Prussia
What Klaipėda was like at the end of the 19th century.
A chronicle of the disaster through the eyes of an eyewitness.
The atmosphere of Königsberg's streets in the mid-19th century
The architectural landmark of the old city on the Pregel
The cosy fortifications of East Prussia
The face of the city on the Pregel in the post-Napoleonic era, through the eyes of a local resident
Königsberg journalism in the first half of the 19th century
Времена основания замка Кёнигсберг и трех городов вокруг него: Альтштадта, Лёбенихта и Кнайпхофа
How the city of Königsberg came into being
An excerpt from one of the finest books on the history of Prussia
How the star of the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia rose
After the "reconstruction", nothing will be left of the historic bridges.
The Battle of Grunwald, fought on 15 July 1410, was the decisive engagement of the Great War of 1409–11.
The history of the construction of Königsberg's second ring of ramparts.
"It seems to me that everything in this city begins with Victory Square." (N. Tikhonov)
Does Kaliningrad need a memorial plaque to the absent-minded and bewildered Osip Mandelstam, who got "stuck" in Königsberg in 1910?
Before the Second World War, a reliable freight and passenger transport network linked every settlement in the Heath.
Is there a grain of truth in the myths and legends about underground Königsberg?
The East Prussian Operation from the standpoint of military science.
Nostalgic notes on the days when the border was under lock and key.
On the anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death we pay tribute to our great fellow countryman
The East Prussian Operation was aimed at crushing a large pocket of resistance; however, its strategic significance should not be overestimated
The centuries-old history of the Trakehner horse breed
It was in creative circles that the images of the region took shape, images that later spread widely.
The price the Baltic Fleet had to pay for victory at sea during the Second World War
All First World War burials and memorials in East Prussia were in excellent condition
How Russia saved France in the First World War on the eve of its own ruin. The Battle of Tannenberg
For the people of Kaliningrad she is interesting as someone who grew up in our city and absorbed its atmosphere
He appeared, it seems to me, unlike anyone else. He is not only a fantasist but full of genre, everyday life, authenticity. They say he wrote drunk
In the East Prussian campaign of 1806–1807, Russia fought Napoleon himself on equal terms
The history of the Seven Years' War in East Prussia
Kaliningrad's dream of taking part in the foreign-policy "game" between Russia and the EU has not come true so far.
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