During the 18th century the denizens of the Prussian city of Königsberg wrestled with a puzzle: How could they find a walking path through the city that crossed each of its storied seven bridges ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In mid-1835, a shocking report from the city of Königsberg reached the desk of the Prussian minister of church ...

The name Königsberg has been wiped from the map. This once-German port city on the Baltic Sea was ceded to the Soviet Union under the Potsdam Agreement in August 1945 and renamed Kaliningrad (in honor ...

A new book by the historian Christopher Clark chronicles a nearly 200-year-old scandal with echoes of the present day. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

Say hello to Kaliningrad. This Russian city is more famous in the English-speaking world as Königsberg, a major center of East Prussia, birthplace of Immanuel Kant, and setting of “The Seven Bridges ...

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THE FATE OF Dresden during the second world war is well-known. A devastating allied campaign of air raids left the Baroque city centre in ruins; an estimated 25,000 people died, most of them women and ...