Калининград / Kaliningrad in 1974

Калининград в 1974 году Фотографии Е. Кассин и М. Редькин Kaliningrad in 1974 Photographs by E. Cassin & M. Red’kin Kaliningrad, formallly known as Königsberg was founded in 1255. In 1340, the city joined the Hanseatic League and from 1457 to 1618 was the residence of the grand masters of the Teutonic order and their successors., the Dukes of Prussia. Prussia’s first king, Frederick I, was crowned here in 1701 Königsberg flourished for the next couple of centuries and became a great centre of trade