The most prosperous town in Prussia through the eyes of a Russian traveller
An excursion to the banks of the Neman, to legendary Tilsit, now Sovetsk, and to Ragnit Castle
A city of regional significance where the Tylzha River flows into the Neman
Badly damaged during the Second World War; all that remains of it is the tower, without its spire
Partly destroyed after WWII. In the 1960s–70s it was dismantled for bricks. Its railings went to make a school fence
It survived the Second World War intact; in the 1970s it housed one of the workshops of the Raduga factory
It came through the Second World War undamaged, but in the winter of 1950–51 it was set on fire by teenagers
It was intact after 1945. In the post-war years it was stripped for firewood and bricks, and what remained was demolished in the 1960s
The most plausible accounts of how the famous East Prussian cheese came to be, and one old legend
Cursed princesses, sunken castles and chthonic gifts. This time from the east
In the East Prussian campaign of 1806–1807, Russia fought Napoleon himself on equal terms
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