From Violet Hill to the Devau airfield
A three-day winter air race between two aces
Long before the phenomenon of Amalienau emerged
The history of Kaliningrad's Central Park
What Königsberg bread was like
A tradition preserved since pre-Christian times
The tradition was brought to Königsberg from a victorious campaign in Austria
The local brewers' trade festival was called Catching Up with Spring!
Unusual oases in the stone thickets of the Innenstadt
Through hardships to the stars
A favourite winter pastime of Königsberg's residents
A cosy fishing village on the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit
Herbert Mühlpfordt presents
A poor fisherman is one who is afraid of getting his socks wet
Where Bessel, Hippel, Rosenkranz were laid to rest...
From Königsberg to Rauschen in just three hours!
A day trip to a green oasis on the Old Pillau Road
The chief town of Natangia
West of Amalienau, Lawsken and Ratshof
The King's Garden of Königsberg, which would later become Parade Square
The dramatic history of Königsberg's Temple of Melpomene
A cult venue on Französische Straße
The Renaissance residence of a dynasty of famous Königsberg pharmacists, the Hagen family
The legend of the merry water sprite of Algawischken
The two main resorts of East Prussia
Prussia has had, has and will always have its unlicensed workers
Königsberg in the Belle Époque
The legend-shrouded cradle and citadel of the Prussian kingdom. A symbol of the city and of all East Prussia
How the heir of a dynasty of pagan priests saved Prussia twice
A romantic story from the life of the conqueror of Prussia
The story of how the Teutonic Order managed to hold its capital
A dead man's prophecy
An old Samland parable preserved in Pomerania
An allegory of the whole history of the Christian conquest of Prussia
The village of Slavskoye is still a rather Gothic little place today
The Christian faith was slow to take root around Insterburg
One of the beautiful traditions of old Königsberg
The story of the hill near the village of Pereslavskoye
A word of advice for anyone going to build in Neman
An old tradition revived in Kaliningrad
The narrowest street in Königsberg
A tale of a gullible widow
A tasting ritual
A tour of the coast from Cranz to Pillau
The legend of a ghost that roams the castle cellars
An old local tradition that could grace Kaliningrad
Prussian commerce before, during and after the Continental Blockade
The music of Königsberg
It turns out they were not Vikings
An old artefact on the Kaporn Heath on the road from Königsberg to Pillau
When and where the Teutonic Order's conquest of Prussia began
What the chief sanctuary of pre-Christian Prussia was like
An alternative version of how amber came to be
Those living among the Russes
From the book “Tales from the Vistula Region”
The first recorded journey to our Baltic shores
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
The port was the backbone of Königsberg's economy
When good roads came to Prussia
What Klaipėda was like at the end of the 19th century.
Chronicles of the sweet life on the banks of the Pregel
A chronicle of the disaster through the eyes of an eyewitness.
The Fish Market as the epicentre of street food
The atmosphere of Königsberg's streets in the mid-19th century
The Swiss secrets of Französische Straße
Sweets against the slush!
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
With a French Square and a French Street in the city, the appearance of a French church was a foregone conclusion
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