The year 2003 saw the completion of work on the re-creation of he famous Amber Room justly regarded as the "eighth wonder of the word" .The fact that the famous interior has been opened to the public in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo during the celebration of the tercentenary of St. Petersburg is deeply symbolic. The Amber Room, a work of art produced both by 18th-centery masters and present-day restorers, who have brought it back to life, serves now as a symbol of the Catherine Palace, one of the most brilliant museums of the northern capital of Russia.