Article: Time machine; The Green Vault.

Hidden charms

Augustus the Strong's treasure hoard together at last

IN 1942 some of the greatest artefacts of the German Baroque were taken from the Green Vault in Dresden, where they had been displayed barring a few interruptions since 1732, to Fortress Konigstein 30 kilometres (19 miles) away. Wonderful works in ivory, jewellery, silver and gold thus escaped the Allied bombing of February 13th 1945 which devastated the city. But three months later a victorious Red Army carted them off to Russia.

By a miracle of Soviet diplomacy the whole lot--including Ivan the Terrible's solid gold drinking bowl--was returned to communist Dresden in 1958. ...

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