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.
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