From Violet Hill to the Devau airfield
A three-day winter air race between two aces
A church, a museum with storerooms and a library, a court, a restaurant and several offices
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
Long before the phenomenon of Amalienau emerged
The history of Kaliningrad's Central Park
There were no refrigerators, so wine was stored and served in cellars
Löbenicht's exotic footpath
Between Bergplatz and Schlossplatz
The quietest spot in the Königsberg Tiergarten
Herbert Mühlpfordt's version
Admiral Tributs Embankment west of the Second Overpass
Why the gate was Green, the tower Yellow and the crane Red
What Königsberg bread was like
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
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 two main resorts of East Prussia
Prussia has had, has and will always have its unlicensed workers
Tulipa sylvestris in the Kaliningrad Region
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
The events at Tilsit through the eyes of the saga's main characters
A dead man's prophecy
An old Samland parable preserved in Pomerania
Karamzin's meditative journey to Europe by way of Königsberg in the late 1780s
One of the beautiful traditions of old Königsberg
An old tradition revived in Kaliningrad
The narrowest street in Königsberg
A tasting ritual
An old local tradition that could grace Kaliningrad
Prussian commerce before, during and after the Continental Blockade
The music of Königsberg
First impressions of the city in 1814
A chapter from a book never before translated into Russian
Old Prussian terminology needs decoding
Rococo in Laak
The Curonian Spit and today's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the early 19th century
A semi-precious fossilised resin of coniferous trees
Haberberg's green shawl
A park around the observatory in the western part of the city
The history of Universitetskaya Street, which was once Parade Square
A Neurossgarten treasure hidden in the courtyards of Moskovsky Avenue
A port city where everything happens on the banks of the river
Typically Prussian, yet unlike any other
Reviving Kaliningrad's historic center
The city on the Pregel in the mid-19th century
An English landscape park in the Chinese style with a German accent
You had to make yourself heard — and shout everyone else down
Kant's city in the post-Napoleonic era
The port was the backbone of Königsberg's economy
When good roads came to Prussia
Continuing the traditions of Königsberg's gardeners
A small but cosy park on Gagarin Street
Chronicles of decline
The sad story of an old park.
Chronicles of the sweet life on the banks of the Pregel
A chronicle of the disaster through the eyes of an eyewitness.
How marzipan and Europe's finest confectioners came to Königsberg
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
Времена основания замка Кёнигсберг и трех городов вокруг него: Альтштадта, Лёбенихта и Кнайпхофа
An excursion to the castles of the Teutonic Order in the south of the Kaliningrad Region
An introduction to the fortification heritage of Königsberg in Kaliningrad
A sightseeing tour of the best districts: the port, the centre, Amalienau, Kant Island, the remains of the fortress walls
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
How the Great Elector chased the Swedes across the ice by sleigh
Arthur Sarnitz on his plans for Fort No. 1 and Balga Castle
The story of one of the world's largest archaeological collections, assembled in pre-war Königsberg
The pre-Teutonic period of Prussian history
The ruins of the church that stood next to the legendary castle are memorable for a fragment of the west wall with a Gothic portal
In the 18th century, East Prussia was a governorate of the Russian Empire for five years
After the "reconstruction", nothing will be left of the historic bridges.
A hydraulic structure from the days of the Teutonic Order still meets about 15% of Kaliningrad’s needs
How the heiress to one of Prussia’s most illustrious family names became Germany’s most influential journalist.
After the First World War, a mosaic panel commemorating the fallen appeared on the church wall and made it special
It survived the war, but soon afterwards it somehow got in the way of some atheist in power and was demolished in 1958
Where this church once stood in the middle of the village of the same name, the waves of the lagoon now lap
Having survived the war without losses, it fell into decay in peacetime
One of the many East Prussian churches of which not one stone was left standing upon another
Why people kiss under the mistletoe and why the Celts considered this plant sacred
Castles of the Teutonic Order in Prussia
The blue that made Prussia famous: Preußisch Blau
A neighbour of the House of Technology and the Wrangel Tower, it stood between them on the bank of the former fortress moat
Built in the early 20th century on Königstraße, not far from the East Prussian Fire Insurance Society
Like many other churches in the region, it survived the war only to find itself unwanted, and was gradually destroyed
Because of the First World War, the construction of this church dragged on for almost ten years
A cosy city church with three hundred years of history that could not withstand the onslaught of the turbulent 20th century
The church's modest exterior was offset by its original interior, especially the vaulted ceiling of the nave
The last church in Kaliningrad to be demolished by decision of the Party leadership
The wooden altar and pulpit were joined by an old chest bearing a seated Madonna of the 14th century
In the 1990s the church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church and after renovation became the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theoto…
The church held the armour of the legendary Grand Marshal of the Order and Komtur of Königsberg, Henning Schindekopf
The modest church of a small settlement that became part of Königsberg in 1939. It burned down and was demolished in 1968
The church's history divides into before and after the lightning strike of 1845, which caused a devastating fire
In Russian and other languages the name of the church is rendered as the Old Rossgarten Church
In 1531 the local Benedictine convent was turned into a hospital by Duke Albrecht
The only church built on Lomse Island before the Second World War
The story of the Vagonka rock club began in 1977, when the Ritm disco opened in the church building
The Yevgeny Svetlanov Kaliningrad Philharmonic, designed by Friedrich Heitmann
It has served both as a church and as a magnetic and ionospheric observatory
The beautiful church on the border of Hufen and Amalienau is surrounded by a run-down square and park
An envoy of the Holy See in Lutheran Königsberg
The Königsberg district with the most dubious reputation was especially in need of a church
It bore the name of the emperor who, under the influence of his English wife, planned to reform Prussia along British lines
The city's principal architectural monument
Until the early 20th century its organ, built by the great Casparini, was considered one of the finest in East Prussia
In the 1930s it was renamed the Duke Albrecht Memorial Church. Its tower rose above the district until the 1960s
The cradle of the Prussian monarchy. There was and is no more important place in the history of the German state
They built and built... and never finished it
The church of the local weavers, brewers and newspapermen, whose home ground was the Löbenicht
What made it special was the number of columns per square metre of the nave
The silhouette of the Königsberg Castle tower, renewed in the second half of the 19th century, was a homage to the legendary church
The oldest church in central Königsberg
The oldest church in the regional capital
A medieval chronicle of the colonisation of Prussia, translated into Russian
The name of this traditional local liqueur translates as “Bear Hunt”
A medieval chronicle of the colonization of the Baltic, translated into Russian
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 vill…
The history of the Teutonic–Lithuanian conflicts began immediately after the Teutonic Order conquered the Prussian lands
If the project proposed by MARKhI is carried out, the very idea of imitating the old buildings will be discredited once and for all.
An ancient city needs a historic centre. A modern one needs a business district.
Well-preserved, grandiose fortifications sunk deep into the ground
The history of the construction of Königsberg's second ring of ramparts.
Napoleon rode into the city through their gates, Kant strolled along their ramparts, and the young Peter I studied their design.
Königsberg marzipan made East Prussia famous all over the world
The history of East Prussia’s foremost castle from the Middle Ages to the present day
"It seems to me that everything in this city begins with Victory Square." (N. Tikhonov)
The last eyewitness account placing its crates in Königsberg's Royal Castle dates from the fifth of April 1945.
Does Kaliningrad need a memorial plaque to the absent-minded and bewildered Osip Mandelstam, who got "stuck" in Königsberg in 1910?
Also known as the Kaliningrad Regional Children's and Youth Centre for Ecology, Local History and Tourism
What does it matter to us ordinary Kaliningraders that Immanuel Kant once lived in this city?
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…
Is there a grain of truth in the myths and legends about underground Königsberg?
The East Prussian Operation from the standpoint of military science.
Königsberg bequeathed to Kaliningrad a unique necklace of waterways
Soon two new complexes will appear on the banks of the Pregolya, with modern façades reminiscent of German warehouses and the old Fish Village.
Veruschka von Lehndorff, who could have perished in Buchenwald but instead became a world-famous supermodel
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…
"Schneider's Green Belt", which shaped Kaliningrad's ecological environment for almost a hundred years, is vanishing before our eyes
On the anniversary of Immanuel Kant's death we pay tribute to our great fellow countryman
The life story of the famous Königsberg artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz
Yekaterina Semyonovna Zhivopistseva tells the story of her father, a soldier taken prisoner by the Germans at Tannenberg in 1914 who escaped in 1919.
Every joke contains a grain of joke.
Getting ready for the holidays: recipes for local cocktails, plus a look at their history
Интервью с титулованным археологом
In Kaliningrad, many beautiful architectural monuments of Königsberg are still being senselessly lost
The East Prussian Operation was aimed at crushing a large pocket of resistance; however, its strategic significance should not be overestimated
The fragments of the material culture of past eras that have survived in the Kaliningrad region exert a strong, and sometimes decisive, influence on …
An interview with Aleksandr Bychenko, creator of the Altes Haus apartment museum
A report in a Swiss newspaper looks at the face of modern Kaliningrad, which in places coexists with Königsberg.
We have to admit it — Kaliningrad as a garden city is no more
Many Polish diplomats call Kaliningrad Królewiec, avoiding any mention of M. I. Kalinin's name
All First World War burials and memorials in East Prussia were in excellent condition
A project to restore the Royal Castle in Kaliningrad has won an online vote
How Russia saved France in the First World War on the eve of its own ruin. The Battle of Tannenberg
People who survived in besieged castles had to eat worse things...
27 October marks 173 years since the birth of the architect Friedrich Heitmann
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
The great astronomer's achievements include calculating the orbital elements of Halley's Comet, determining the masses of several planets and develop…
In memory of the Curonian Spit, Karl came up with an original recipe that later graced the traditional local cuisine
In the East Prussian campaign of 1806–1807, Russia fought Napoleon himself on equal terms
The recipe for preserving the cobblestones is ridiculously simple. If residents and the authorities care, they will stay; if they don't, they will di…
The history of the Seven Years' War in East Prussia
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