Life in the Russian exclave Kaliningrad | German heritage, Russian people and Soviet buildings

[@BlackBear15909]

As a person who appreciates all cultures, I've been watching your videos and enjoy being taken along your journeys. As a side note, my german grandmother was born in Königsberg and always told me of her life in East Prussia. One day I hope to visit.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Oma. Muttie. KONIGSBERG und Tilsit.........

[@annicarosander2074]

​@@dagmarvandoren9364Tilziter Käse?

[@dominikr3404]

hat leider nichts mehr mit preußen zutun

[@Westyrulz]

Ostpreußen muss dem Vaterland zurückgegeben werden !!

[@vadomarmeddugnatoswidukind]

@@annicarosander2074 Tilsiter Käse, au Backe. Soweit ich weiss, stammt der Tilsiter Käse von einem Schweizer, der nach Ostpreussen auswanderte. Mittlerweile wird in Tilsit kein Käse mehr produziert (oder höchstens sowjetischer?) Aber Tilsiter Käse gehört zum Sortiment der deutschen und der schweizerischen Supermärkte. Wobei die deutsche und die schweizerische Version nicht identisch sind. Ich (als Schweizer mit ostpreussischer Oma) bevorzuge die deutsche Version, da sie ein wenig herzhafter schmeckt. Man erkennt sie an den feinen Luftblasen.

[@christianphilipp7110]

My father was born there when it was still called Koenigsberg. Thanks for this video❤

[@naturestone3148]

My dad was born there too.😊 In 1940.

[@christianphilipp7110]

@@naturestone3148 So they were born in the same year

[@krisjustin3884]

My great great grandparents were born there! Sad to see a well-regarded lost culture, but nice to see it coming back to life like this.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

1/3 of Germans can trace their families back to the lost territories that are now Poland and part of Russia. This is only 80 years.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

Ja der krieg. Konigsberg. Kant. Alles weg. Danzig. G. Dans k

[@aseltho]

Not a single word about Immanuel Kant 😢 one of the most important philosophers of the last centuries. He spent his whole life in Königsberg.

[@anais-teodoru]

Но кстати, был подданным Российской империи!) это факт!)

[@aseltho]

​@@anais-teodoru You are wrong, at that time (1724 - 1804) it belonged to Preußen (Prussia). Get back to school.

[@anais-teodoru]

@@aseltho во время семилетней войны Кёнигсберг был захвачен русскими войсками и Кант дал присягу Российской императрице Елизавете Петровне 1757-1762!))

[@aseltho]

In which language he wrote all his books? If someone conquers a region this doesn't mean he is the founder of a culture. Why do you insist on such a short period of time? Why this provocation? Königsberg was a German Prussian town founded hundreds years ago by Prussians and Kant was and is the most famous son of this city.

[@kawu3373]

​@@anais-teodoru Ах да, Россия всегда вторгается в другие страны... то есть "освобождает"

[@ajjoshi9232]

You make the videos so well. It makes me feel I have known you all my life though physically and culturally, we are poles apart. My hats off to you Eli.

[@getthepointx]

I have to remind myself sometimes that this is not a film crew, but a one person production. You're very skilled with both filming and editing. I'm grateful that you spend your free days grinding out videos for your channel. I really enjoy your videos.

[@silverkitty2503]

i never knew she owned a drone

[@Lokalny123]

Kreml money

[@michaelgratton1767]

@@Lokalny123 Yes, sadly she is a pro putin propagandist who supports war criminal putin.

[@nnnnnn3647]

free days? it's her job.

[@justinsmith5338]

No-one stops to think that this is another conquered/stolen country the same as Russia is trying to do with Ukraine, Belarus,and has done to georgia, Japanese Islands, Moldova,(Transistia) Chechnya, Parts of Finland and more. They are in the same league as Hitler - evil people.

[@khecke]

I went to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in Fall of 1942 and also to Tilsit and went there to school for a few month, before I returned to Silesia.

[@creighton8069]

1942, so you must remember the Second World War then?

[@sarunas3483]

Are u sure about date..

[@dannyarcher6370]

Sure you did.

[@EaNasirSellsBadCopperNGL]

With someone that old on the internet with such fluency in typing... I believe you

[@LAKHWINDERSINGH-rk4mb]

I am a resident of India and studying in Russia it I have a. Student visa. For one year. can I travel in kaliningrad.

[@alanfox4914]

Hi Eli from Russia. Every day's a school day. I love learning about your beautiful country and the people within it🥰

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Everyday i learn what her beautiful country is doing to the beautiful country of Ukraine. It aint pretty, i tell you. By the way, Kal8ngrad is not russia, its a conquered part of Germany - East Prussia to be exact - with some polish territory as well. Yeah!

[@alanfox4914]

I'm pretty sure that she didn't start the war. government's start wars 💔

[@ВладСавицки]

@@carlossaraiva8213 Поменьше лживую западную пропаганду слушай.

[@franklynlohr1060]

@@carlossaraiva8213 move on

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

Hi Alan, it's very refreshing to read such a comment. I'm so tired to read negative comments and this one made my day.

[@barry7608]

I'm in love!....with marzipan of course. Love your vids best wishes from Australia. Take care, also great choice of music to finish with.

[@pomodorino1766]

Thanks Eli! Beautiful video as usual! The place looks amazing also!

[@Nastiazik]

*Greetings from a Russian blogger to a Russian blogger🇷🇺😂* Thanks for the wonderful video, Elli)

[@asdrdffad]

🔥🔥🔥

[@AuraCraft]

you're a propagandist :p

[@Nastiazik]

@@AuraCraft a propagandist of sound opinion?

[@AuraCraft]

@@Nastiazik go talk to people in donbas and see if your opnion changes

[@ultonian63]

@@AuraCraft and you’re a bot.

[@billbaird2273]

Great video. We visited Kaliningrad in 2018 for the World Cup and I agree people there are so friendly and accommodating. Actually we found people to be very friendly everywhere we traveled in Russia, hope this war is over soon so we can visit again. Kaliningrad is very interesting, there are only a few structures left from the former Königsberg (apart from the cobbled streets), there are a few places from the old walls 2 gates, one of which has been turned into a museum, very interesting. I think they must get a lot of German tourists (or did get), as you see souvenirs in most shops with Königsberg on them.

[@eaglee4010]

You see, they are supposedly nice people, but they harass others. You realized that Russians are bandits.

[@edelweiss-]

so sad that are less structures are left from Königsberg. The history and culture there just got erased away? it never was an slavic place. so many parts towards Königsberg. So less people know, that Germany never was as tiny as its today.

[@prayer.online]

@@edelweiss- I am from there. If you walk in central area of willas you would see tonns of former german buildingsanfd streets,

[@AntonioRossi-bi4up]

The Russians in Konigsberg did ethnic cleansing and ethnic replacement as they did with all neighboring countries. They destroyed everything. They replaced the culture-filled German outoctonian population that gave birth to Kant with a backward Slavic population. Really sad.

[@movalodh]

Excellent, Eli from Russia! Outstanding quality in all areas. I found it informative, interesting and entertaining.

[@rhubarbpie5232]

I grew up as a boy of German parents living in Canada and later, the US. I love the German Christmas traditions....except for Marzipan! You are right, Eli. There is no middle ground when it comes to Marzipan. You either love it or hate it. Perhaps the Kaliningrad Marzipan might change my mind. Thank you for the history of Marzipan! I never knew this.

[@frostflower5555]

I can't imagine how anyone can not love marzipan.

[@loveyournexthuman]

You never had this DDR Marzipan ? Forgot its name..but its delicious, wraped in choklade..Marzipan is juts smashed Almonds, some add other stuff and mess it up, but basicly its like peanutbutter !

[@RonSommar]

@@loveyournexthuman In fear I must add that Eastern Germany was forced to replace almonds by cheaper apricot ingredients. Nevertheless, today they returned to almonds and the original recipe. Give it another try 😊

[@rogink]

@@frostflower5555 I'm not usually a sweet eater, but I love marzipan, as much for its smell as the taste. Mmmm...

[@maxsonthonax1020]

But don't you miss Königsberg/Kaliningrad?

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

Great vid guys thanks for sharing your time with us 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 living in Mexico Yucatan peninsula sending you support cheers ✌️🥂🥰🙏

[@paulbuning690]

Thanks Elli for the very interesting documentation! A few years ago, as Germans, we visited Kaliningrad when times were not that complicated. Really worth seeing! You didn't mention one important fact: Immanuel Kant, one of the most important philosophers, spent his whole life here!

[@phillipproussier3723]

She didn´t mention Immanuel Kant, but it´s still in the video. It´s written in the museum part.

[@NoMady688]

Um pouco antes da morte Kant escreveu ou falou isso: “A vida é um fardo para mim, estou cansado de carrega-lo. E se o anjo da morte decidisse vir esta noite e me levar daqui, ergueria minha mão e diria: Deus seja louvado” ... Está escrito na bíblia que quem se matar irá para o inferno. As vezes, eu penso "Que triste... Agora.... Eu tenho que viver... "

[@NoMady688]

"A guerra é má, por originar mais homens maus do que aqueles que mata”. By Kant Bem interessante. A guerra repercute em anos e todos que leem sobre ela, muitas vezes gostariam de estar presente e isso muitas vezes produzem mais monstros do que guerreiros. Gosto bastante dos alemães. Ditado alemão "Pai Rico Filho humilde Neto pobre" 🤭🤭🤣🤣

[@phillipproussier3723]

@@NoMady688 = 🤡

[@NoMady688]

@@phillipproussier3723 eu acho que você errou no seu julgamento... Deixe-me explicar o ditado. Pai Rico (muito sábio e ensina o filho tudo sobre a vida e como ser feliz.) Filho humilde (ele aprende tudo com o pai, mas repassa toda a sabedoria aos amigos.) Neto pobre (agora todos sabem o que o pai ensinou sobre a vida, mas o neto não é mais sábio, não aos olhos do mundo, pois todos tem o mesmo ensinamento)

[@tariq5783]

Thanks!

[@TheVigilant109]

Wonderful video Eli. Many thanks for taking me on another visit to a part of Russia. Fascinating

[@stevenhandorf3145]

I am watching your channel for the first time in several months. I stopped only because of time considerations, not for political reasons. Your blogs are always so professional and so enjoyable to watch!

[@lucasrem]

she is German, she just never went back in 1945, no politics please. She, i meant Grandmother/family etc...

[@Hopazz]

@@lucasrem politics please. Prove that.

[@krunoslavkovacec1842]

This is why exclaves and enclaves are some of the most interesting places on Earth. The combination of cultures and the historical heritage is incredible.

[@Keithyoung420]

россия древний город вы найдете кучу красивых вещей тоже старые здания и большой океан

[@johnsmith1474]

What is why? You stated no object.

[@sandor7594]

Enclave? No! Occuped territory!

[@krunoslavkovacec1842]

@@sandor7594 In terms of history, yes. In terms of geography, it's an exclave

[@Pedros-g5q]

Nazi exclave with nazi people

[@mecha1gold]

Marzipan is actually of arab origin and it was introduced by the arabs along with almonds themselves to Spain and Italy when they controlled the south of these countries, today you can find marzipan even made in the continent of America in the country of Mexico by the influence of Spain but made of Peanuts instead of Almonds since indigenous people in Mexico grew peanuts.

[@Qiunell]

in Germany its well known marzipan came from the orient / middle east. All their sweets are amazing actually!

[@darellnewsome4459]

Awesome video Eli and I learned a lot from it. Thank you for sharing!

[@tuaniskandar9621]

The travel videos you produce are always impressive, Eli. I'm so provoked to want to visit Kalingrad, especially when in summer it looks very beautiful. Thanks a lot for the information. And keep making interesting videos about Russia, so that the world community understands how unique and beautiful Russia is.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

It's great to see that people are still interested in Russia!

[@nomadclient4047]

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[@thermofisherru7259]

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[@doug307]

the TRUTH is, Prussia is NOT Russia, never was and never will be. It is still an occupied territory but there will come a day when Russia will have to leave it and justice will be restored. The time may come very soon.

[@vvaldez0221]

@@SamsRussianAdventures Russia is a great country with beautiful people but unfortunate, politicians and military expansionist make people forget about the beauty and culture of Russia.

[@robert9ish]

Excellent content lately, Eli. I'm glad to see that you're managing to get more of it uploaded for us at a fast pace, too. Thanks! Oh, and I hate marzipan, though I've never tried any from Kaliningrad. Lol...

[@juavi6987]

High quality Marzipan from Lübeck -as far as rember the taste the East Prussian marzipan is comparable, and many marzipan-makers did also relocate there after the war, - is does taste quite different to the over sugared stuff you often get (which I never liked as well, especially as a child. Maybe tryin it out?..

[@robert9ish]

@@juavi6987 Thank you! I'll give it a try. I used to hate olives and wouldn't eat them for a long time. One day, I tried again and I loved them. Maybe it will be the same with a good quality marzipan. Have a great day!

[@johnsmith1474]

Too much time wasted making believe there is something interesting at some concrete rooms under an old fort.

[@robert9ish]

@@johnsmith1474 Good thing it's not your time to waste as you choose then, isn't it? Pfft...

[@jameswalker4225]

@@robert9ish nobody said a tool who uses a name like John Smith for YT commenting has more than 45 chromosomes in play.

[@rosaschmitt2837]

An really interesting and educational video🙂. Greetings from Germany🇩🇪

[@carltongirl95]

What an unusual city Kaliningrad is in some area's it really does look German and the rest like Russia thankyou for sharing Eli I'm loving your stories about your homeland 💜

[@petermolnar8401]

This happens when Russia consume some civilized beutiful city or country. Practically , Königsberg is now a military base of Russia . they can reach Europe even with simple missiles. If they use hypersonic , London just 5 min.The same fate waits for Odessa . Because of the same strategic reason. I wondering how they will rename it and erase from their alternate history :S ....

[@krissdev6301]

@Peter Molnar omg what?) we have no alternative history, it was renamed just because kënigsberg so hard to pronounce for simple Russian it’s not looks like Russian language but everyone know the history of the city🙄 and also if you didn’t knew -Odessa was founded by Ekaterina II and was part of Russian empire for hundreds years, so its not needs to rename it 🙄🌝 Before that it was turkish fortress or little military town And also if you think we have no acces to the internet and world history sources you absolutely incorrect. And also if you think you r more smart than other whole country - your not enough smart for understand the reality🙄 we r not North Korea with separated internet and closed borders🙄

[@petermolnar8401]

@@krissdev6301 Even Humgary and Romania has their own alter history ... nationalism work like that. I think about Holodomor for example...was that a lie too? Some nation just can't learn or change their agressive nature. I respect those Russians who dare to speak freely even if they can go to jail for a word like "war" they are the real heros of Russia. Not the orcs looking for nazis in Ukrain. XD That is where brainwash starts.

[@VHSKacceta]

@@petermolnar8401 You're a victim of propaganda. Do you know what the law "the law of war" says? as it is called in the West. No. Because all you know is that Western propaganda has poured into your brain through its media. The law on fakes is called, there is no such "law of war" in Russia. One of the points of this law states that the media that use the word "war" as a special operation in Ukraine will fall under the article about fakes. The law on fakes applies only to the media (Bloggers in Russia also fall under the category of mass media). If an ordinary citizen calls a special operation in Ukraine a war, nothing will happen to him for it, no matter where he did it. The law provides for fines against the media and only after malicious, repeated violations of the law on fakes, restriction of human freedom is applied. So far, not a single person has been imprisoned for using the word "war" in relation to Ukraine in Russia. Although many liberal bloggers in Russia still allow themselves to repeatedly call the situation in Ukraine a war and they do nothing for it. The West took the law when it was brought into consideration in Russia and turned it upside down, distorted it for propaganda and gave it to you fools, and now you run everywhere and poke it everywhere as an example of dictatorship, it looks ridiculous and stupid. And it only proves how stupid people in the West are and are susceptible to propaganda.

[@petermolnar8401]

@@VHSKacceta it is clear now. So the protests on the Russian streets , the recorded videos when police put the peacefully people in cars because they say no war , was the best CGi animation ever creeated? :D wooow !

[@retrogamestudios6688]

Eli, glad to see u again. East coast USA is waiting for your visit....well someday I hope. Be safe, glad your well. Keep up the good work.

[@gerhard6105]

In 2016, i was in Kaliningrad. I drove to that area with my own car. I am from the Netherlands. We stayed in Zelenogradsk for a week. It was very nice. The tiny hotel was 150 m from the sea. We also visited the dancing forest, Dune Elau (62m) and the bird watch on the Curonian Spit, Kurische Nehrung. We went to Kaliningrad city by train. We had a volunteer guide, a young student girl. She asked us if we wanted to go to the zoo. I said that we have a nice zoo in Amstedam too and that i wanted to go to the General Lasch war museum, under the university garden. She did not know it existed. So we went there. After that we walked along the former Schlossteich to the Amber museum. It was very nice. After that we went to the Historical Museum, next to the Schlossteich. We also drove one soviet city bus and later we drove a new city bus with airconditioning. She offered us a lunch and we went to a model kit shop somewhere else in the city. An other day we wanted to go to the militairy show in Baltysk, but we did not arrange the permit in time. On the last day we drove via the castle ruine of Schaaken and then southwards via a more scenery route to the Polish border. We liked our stay very much and everybody was unselfish helpfull ( the hotel gardener walked us all the way to the postoffice and the girl from the souvenir marketstand ran after us because we had forgotten to take one of the items we bought from her). We gave the guide loads of Rubels that she did not want. I just put it in her pocket. We hope to go there once again and visit Georgenburg, and the Elk region, Sovetsk and other nice places. Yes, we bought Amber items ther. A necklace with hanger and a silver with amber letter opener. I hope the old buildings in the centre of Zelenogradsk/Cranz will be restored. The highway ( 100km/h) was brandnew and there were several roadworks to modernize the infrastructure. My car had a good place on the guarded hotel courtyard. And the benzine was only €0,55 per liter. Yes, we would like to go there again, once......

[@АндрейШестаков-н6м]

Hello from Kaliningrad. It will be joy to see you again in our small region. One day, when all this current nightmare would be over. Zelenogradsks has changed a lot in recent years. Now it is branded for tourists by cats, a lot of cats everywhere.

[@eriklaken1025]

Sound very nice and safe to go, i can,t wait to go :)

[@Lokalny123]

@@АндрейШестаков-н6м When russia ends this nightmare and stops occupying free Ukraine.

[@fresatx]

The shelves in Kaliningrad are better stocked than USA. 🤷

[@ulisirius9027]

Russia has a lot of beautiful places with moderate or even subtropical temperatures. Sotchi, Krasnodar, Crimea, Mariupol, Odessa...

[@hereandthere6863]

Having lived in Germany for four years I love Marzipan. Thank you for sharing this information and providing us with a tour.

[@Randy_Gayler]

Always excited to see a new video from you Eli. Your production values are just excellent, professional quality in my opinion. And you do what we need more of, spread some people to people goodwill around the world. Stay your lovely and charming self and I look to see more of you in the future! 💖

[@alexandercheremisin3371]

@@ElifromRussia Ты прокадыркина пропагандистка, даже не знаешь, чем Хрущёвка от Брежневки отличается. Татарва тупая. Ещё этого типа у этого типа американца интервью брала. Ну вот кто ты после этого?

[@paulsdancing5429]

Randy, thank you for putting in writing my feelings about Eli. In Canada, we would say about Eli that she is the girl that every father would wish to have for a daughter. She is the product of her people. Of her's Euro-Asian culture. A culture that has to survive, if the World will survive

[@cfneal1459]

@@ElifromRussia Travelogue and historical, these video remind me of our common humanity, and for the possibilities of peace the world over. So I pray, in Jesus name, amen. Thank you for you service!

[@VernCrisler]

Be careful though. Some bloggers from a country I won't mention say she is KGB. Their proof was mainly Tim the Talker. ;-)

[@cfneal1459]

@@VernCrisler KGB kaput these three decades. Whatever it is NOW, she who have no place in Putin's manly intel agency. j/s

[@TheDoe53]

Always first class videos. Thank you for sharing your country to the viewers!

[@FYLUBO1]

Its hard to imagine that both Gdansk and Kaliningrad were rival cities with similar number of people and how it looks today... Gdańsk/ Danzig was heavily destroyed during WW2 but luckily rebuilt by Poles(lets say 40-50% of historical city was brought back to life the rest was gone)... In Kalingrad whole city center looks like empty desert with one church remaining in the middle of nothing plus some 90's and 2000's added buildings... its such a big pity that Russians didn't decide to rebuilt this city. This cobbled stone roads are probably older than whole Russia there, and it is sad when people say that they like this european architecture there but generally it was destroyed in 90% of its previous state. Kalingrad would be in one list with turistic Tallin Riga Gdansk and for example Lubeck...

[@cheezycrackers8677]

The Russians bulldozed whatever was left. Their intent was to completely eradicate all signs of the city's German past.

[@erichamilton3373]

The Poles have an emotional connection to Gdańsk (Danzig) so they were interested in showing it's history. The Russians replaced Königsberg with Kaliningrad...as they had no historical relation to that place.

[@LukaS0039]

@@erichamilton3373 Danzig was less destroyed than Koenigsberg, since Koenigsberg was bombed by British aircraft, where thousands of bombs were dropped a day and the entire center was completely destroyed, and Danzig was taken by storm by the Soviet army and then Danzig was restored with the money of the European Union. What could have been restored and what hadn't was cleared.

[@LukaS0039]

@@erichamilton3373 and the Poles never had any connection with the datsik, until 45 it was the territory of Germany, and before that it was the territory of the state of Prussia, but in 1918 Germany enslaved it. And Prussia had more connections with the Russian Empire than with the Poles.

[@zdzisawdziegiel2154]

@@LukaS0039 It is not good when blindness with national propaganda obscures the historical truth. Gdańsk belonged to Poland from the 13th century and was founded by Polish kings. It was owned by Germany after the treacherous partition of Poland in the second half of the 18th century (by Russia, Austria and Prussia) until 1945 and returned to Polish possession! And Kaliningrad (formerly Królewiec with an area called East Prussia) was the territory given to the Teutonic Order for eternal exile by the Polish king Stefan Batory. This fact is known in history as the Prussian Homage, when the Teutonic Order, after the final defeat of the Polish-Lithuanian Union by the army, had to humble itself before the Polish King.

[@marmar7255]

I absolutely love your all videos of Russia. My FAVORITE ones.🤩

[@annab2717]

Thank you Eli for recognizing that Konigsberg was part of Germany before. I am German and after the end of the war we had to deal with many refugees from that part of the world. Some of my best friends as far away as Mexico came from there.

[@БелаяГвардия-о4ю]

Russia never said, that Kaliningrad wasn't German before. Everyone know it

[@alxnd_r6345]

You should also thank them for not taking your complete country. You deserved it.

[@elliotgirl3921]

it's not a secret.

[@jubanumidia8460]

@@БелаяГвардия-о4ю meanwhile polish and Czech denied the truth about German lost territories

[@PascalKorver]

Konigsberg should be independent, or be returned to Germany. Just like Donbas. Russian ruined it with those ugly residential buildings

[@BECKER_21]

Willkommen in Kaliniingrad! Hoffentlich hat es dir bei uns gut gefallen!)

[@marTn3]

Königsberg*

[@pomboe]

*Königsberg

[@ultimatetruth3647]

Dear Eli ,Russia is so huge I think it will take one's lifetime to be fully covered by travel and explore the entire country. Best wishes and best of luck ❤.

[@doug307]

Ultimate truth, the TRUTH is, Prussia is NOT Russia, never was and never will be. It is still an occupied territory but there will come a day when Russia will have to leave it and justice will be restored. The time may come very soon.

[@Speaktruthabsolutely2024]

I just love how these videos can be colorized now with CGI. It almost looks real. It looks so different from the black and white motherland. Great job 👏👏👏

[@JM-ig4ed]

So interesting - thank you so much for continued excellent videos about life there.

[@abas9393]

@@ElifromRussia 😭😭 😭 I love and miss your lovely videos in Perm; 😂specially when you show us the crazy Bania😂😂😂😂❄️❄️❄️♥️♥️ Keep your videos simple like that one 😅😊

[@brysonboehl6590]

Thanks for the tour, Eli! Amazing part of the world! Superb video editing also.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

It's an amazing place, I hope to visit soon too.

[@dweamy1]

Just wanted to let you know that the roads are made with 'cobble stones' not paving stones. PAving stones are what you have on the pavement :-). Kaliningrad is beautiful !

[@Mikeb8134]

Once again another stolen property that doesn't belong to Russia and will be returned when that awful country collapses.

[@ganjinfly]

По-моему, правильно она говорит. Брусчатка это камень прямоугольной формы, которым выкладывают улицы и тротуары. На сколько заметил, там дорога выложена как раз квадратным или прямоугольным камнем (во всяком случае на 2:32).

[@DeemaZiad]

I became addicted to your videos Eli . Even start to learn some few words in Russian .. I wish you make more videos .. Wish you the best

[@hinki20.01]

Also erstmal vielen Dank für dieses Video. Für mich als Deutschen, mit Ostpreußischen (Königsberg) Wurzeln, ist dieses Video natürlich etwas speziell. Der Blick auf/nach Königsberg, wie es heute aussieht, hat mich Wütend, traurig und geschockt zurückgelassen. Ich kenne durch viele Geschichten meiner Vorfahren, deren Meinung zu Königsberg. Es sei Atemberaubend schön, faszinierend und sehr deutsch/preußisch. Ich sah zudem einige Bilder aus bspw. 1900 und später. Das Königsberg heute, ist ja gar kein Königsberg mehr, gut dass es Kaliningrad heißt. Der Name Königsberg wäre wirklich zu schade für das heutige Kaliningrad. Die neueren Bauten und die Leute passen nicht zu den alten Bauten. Ich finde, Kaliningrad ist eine sehr gespaltene und zum Scheitern verurteilte Stadt. Ich hoffe als Deutscher, aber vor allem als Preuße doch sehr, dass diese Stadt bald wieder zurück zu uns kommt und wir ihr wieder Liebe schenken können. Denn heute diese Stadt zu sehen, tut weh.

[@juliay1644]

I’m Ukrainian and can understand your feelings very well 😥

[@Morrov]

To bring the city back to its former glory, you'd essentially need to demolish almost all of it and start anew. Look up the house of soviets what happened to the Königsberg castle. Königsberg, sadly, is dead, it's just Kaliningrad now. At least, the old Prussian architecture and heritage has been preserved and taken care of just a bit south of that place, on the Polish side.

[@hinki20.01]

@@Morrov ein Preuße gibt niemals auf. Alles ist möglich. Der Aufwand ist entscheidend.

[@Moes13K]

Ich hoffe eine Tag russe geht raus vom Königsberg... Egal wo ein russe hinkommt, es gibt Dreck, Geschmacklosigkeit und Armut. Schöner grüsse aus Litauen

[@juanfran579]

@@hinki20.01 Preussen gibt's nicht mehr.

[@martinlomsater9660]

Beautiful location ☺️😊 thanks 🙏

[@deadcatbounce3124]

Very interesting look. My German ancestors are from the Konigsberg area, I think it's safe to say that there wouldn't be any relatives still living there now.

[@Doiran-co8md]

yep the russians take good care to ensure no living german will stay there

[@deadcatbounce3124]

@@Doiran-co8md The Poles too.

[@Doiran-co8md]

Yep them too

[@AncientOneFamily.]

They even dumped our tombstones over....

[@krisjustin3884]

Thanks for showing me what my German great great grandparents could never show me! They’d be as shocked as Kaiser Wilhelm to think a Russian showed me this!

[@xrisc131]

Thank you for sharing this! The beautiful people, beautiful trees, beautiful architecture. May God have mercy on us all.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

Russia is a country of huge diversity!

[@deniskosian2934]

@Xeon Xeonko I wouldn't use word colonized. It has negative connotation of western colonization.

[@notsaying543]

Annexed then

[@franziskafischer9400]

Many thanks Eli for the wonderful and very, very interesting videos. Многие приветы из Германии - Herzliche Grüße nach Russland 👍❤️🍀🇷🇺

[@Cairol58]

Aha, wieder jemand der das nazistische Putin Regime vom komfortablen Deutschland aus unterstützt, ekelhaft!

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

So near to you! Does it look like Germany?

[@haileselarsi7420]

bist du deutsche? weißt du nicht, was die russen grade in der ukraine anstellen? wie kannst du so was hier nur supporten? das ist ja wohl echt nicht die richtige zeit für sowas! schäm dich!

[@Cairol58]

@@haileselarsi7420Who are you to tell me what I am supposed to support or not? Looks like you are a disguised pro-Putin troll trying to con people with your nonsense 🤣. Shame on you!

[@demetriusvolkodav4923]

Hi again Eli! “Trru Roshah" hahahaha. Ummm, Marzipan is awesome! Anyway, you joining the Russian Geographic Society has really highlighted your filming and production talents and you are a natural in front of the camera! Watching you is like watching a PBS or BBC program, except much more honest 😁. Together with your Russian Speaking Club, both have really given your future an unlimited ceiling! I’m really glad that the algorithm has allowed me to discover your channel and keep up the great work!

[@doug307]

the TRUTH is, Prussia is NOT Russia, never was and never will be. It is still an occupied territory but there will come a day when Russia will have to leave it and justice will be restored. The time may come very soon.

[@aelyslohr9353]

Only yet: thank you Eli for this interesting video: my ancestors are from this region. I will go there one day. Greetings from Austria

[@jackparsons390]

Great video, as an American I think Russian people are wonderful

[@salad7776]

...do you include those who shoot and torture their neighbors right now?

[@Joseph-le5zk]

Thank you Eli this was another of ur wonderful videos I am not Russian but I have a few friends here in Portland, Oregon and I share these videos with my Russian friends

[@doug307]

the TRUTH is, Prussia is NOT Russia, never was and never will be. It is still an occupied territory but there will come a day when Russia will have to leave it and justice will be restored. The time may come very soon.

[@hollybeckermeyer7072]

I want to visit here. My family is from this area, fled in 1945. I am very interested in putting together family heritage locations and do a family heritage rendition. I hope to make this happen one day. I love this video.

[@Wolcik3000]

no hard feelings?

[@edelweiss2971]

Let's call it Königsberg, because this belongs to Germany or at least Poland and Lithuania. There was no post war migration. Germans and Baltics were forced to leave. Otherwise they were killed, and the is just what happened to several Germans. That was what we today call ethnic cleansing, and exactly what the russian government are doing in Ukraine today. Königsberg is surely going to taken back to the Western countries sooner or later. Please do not relativize the abuse against German people. Those civilians were not responsible for what the Hitlers nazi regim did, in the same way Eli are not in response of what Putin and russian government are doing right now.

[@ЕгорУшаков-л2м]

It is a pity that there was a resettlement of Germans from Kaliningrad in 45. Although at that time local Germans and immigrants from the USSR would not get along together, despite the political situation after the war. But I think it would be an interesting experience of local Germans and Soviet citizens living in the same region. Even in the context of the region being part of the USSR, as it was. Anyway. Alas, there is little left of the German heritage. But we are looking forward to seeing you in Kaliningrad. Welcome!

[@neilfox3208]

My family is also from there but migrated to the US in the 1880s

[@siegfriedkroeger2038]

Vor einigen Jahren hatte ich Königsberg oft besucht. Da begann man dort bereits die deutsche Vergangenheit durch politische Aktionen wie Zerstörung deutscher Friedhöfe etc. zu beseitigen. Aber obwohl viel deutsches Kulturgut vernichtet wurde und 1945 ja Königsberg von den Russen zur Plünderung freigegeben wurde, hat man es trotz zahlreicher hässlicher russischer Bauten wie dem "Haus des Rates" und der Umbenennung der Stadt nach dem Banditen Kalinin nicht geschafft der alten deutschen Stadt ihr Image zu nehmen denn Königsberg ist eine deutsche Stadt !!!

[@juliojames5986]

Eli, Great tour . The Amber museum is interesting . Thanks so much. 😍💐 🇺🇸🇷🇺

[@olivermiller2013]

I was 1993 there and the changes are really nice. The church you started the video was without roof and you saw the sky entering it. On the right side there was a small room with a relief of old Königsberg and in front of the church two construction worker building the top of the tower. This was an EU project. By the way: This nice park didn´t exist at that time and it was the place for the University till 1945. You showed the Emmanual Kant monument, which was placed 1992. Besides the Königsberger Marzipan and the Amber (I visited the musuem as well) there are Königsberger Klöpse (dumplings). You should try them, if you have the possibility. They are very nice. Hope you enjoyed your stay there.

[@edelweiss-]

its still known in Germany, the Königsberger Klöpse :). it went known trough whole Germany and since 1945, nobody would know anymore what Königsberg is

[@DigiMakc]

Тут на видео показано мало. На самом деле, за 30 лет много чего изменилось и сделалось. Вы можете посмотреть панорамы улиц в Yandex maps. Google maps сильно устарел.

[@raideveloper]

Your channel is awesome, and you're posting very often! Nice to see Kaliningrad as a beautiful place, a nice architecture city, and not like many media in my country says: "just a potential source of geopolitical problems"

[@manoftheworld1000]

Oh, we know the true source of geopolitical problems ...!

[@haroldcruz8550]

To the United Sanctions of America, any place that doesn't have a US military base is a potential source of problem.

[@thermofisherru7259]

It was more beautiful before Russians annexed it. They only add soviet architecture.

[@EUenjoyer]

​@@thermofisherru7259 Just see what they have done also to Finland regions they still occupy as Konigsberg

[@DaveBP2187]

Yeah, I knew about the famous Amber Room but I didn't knew that there were still some parts of it. If it still exists and is found it would be the greatest archaeological discoveries of the century, for sure. I remember some years ago when in the sea of my country was discovered the so called "Holy Grial of shipwrecks", San José Galleon of the Spanish Armada when we in Clombia were a colony. I was in the Navy by the time of its confirmed discovery and it was almost a revolution for all of us. Naturally, because is the "Holy Grial of Shipwrecks" its precise location is higly classified. So, if a relatively unknown (but really valuable) shipwreck could be called "A Holy Grial", imagine how the discovery of that famous Room could be given the mistery, value and the fact that it is far more famous than San José.

[@Right0202]

The Russians got tired of looking for the amber room, and they made an exact copy of it using photographs.

[@watching99134]

@@Right0202 I was going to say, I saw an amber room somewhere in Russia, I forget where (small palace outside St. Pete's I think).

[@barbarabanks3216]

Thanks for sharing your culture! As for marzipan… I agree folks either love it or hate it! I was able to visit Russia a few years ago and one of my ‘tourist’ photos was of a Ritter Sport dark chocolate and marzipan candy bar with a Cyrillic label. Clearly I am in the ‘love marzipan’ group.

[@ingvarahlekristenssen6721]

Eli, always interesting things from you, Kaliningrad, so close, and far a way, from Sweden. Keep it up with your nice little documentaries.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

Have you ever thought about visiting?

[@ЕгорУшаков-л2м]

Come on. From Sweden to Kaliningrad 450 kilometers across the Baltic Sea. From Kaliningrad to Moscow is three times more.

[@pamelahalstead]

For folks who want to deny there is a war of aggression being perpetrated by these happy, “peaceful” people who don’t have to worry about nightly terror bombing. A tour de force for the gigantic propaganda machine that is the Russia of today. This piece was concocted a year into Russia’s genocidal war against a free country. Though I fully expect that my entry will be suppressed by the very people I am talking about I had to say it. At least they may have to read it before they eliminate it (like so much else).

[@RoyalOui]

Thank you for the beautiful video, Eli! I was happy to see the name of one of the most influential thinkers in recent centuries appear in the video: the philosopher and polymath Immanuel Kant, often called "The Sage of Königsberg" :) (His name appears for a moment, engraved in stone in this video.) It is hard to overstate his importance in the intellectual history of the western (and to an extent the eastern) part of the world. He exerted a significant influence on Einstein, among many, many other great thinkers. It is often said that Kant never traveled further than 10 miles from his home town of Königsberg, and that his daily walks were so regular, that the townspeople could set their clocks by them. His "Categorical Imperative" is considered one of the great ethical principles in history: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law" is, perhaps, the most common version one sees. Among my favorite quotes from Kant is "“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” It is said that this is engraved on his headstone (?) Thank you again, Eli, for sharing this exciting adventure! Best wishes always. And may Peace prevail on Earth and between Russia, Ukraine, and all the World.

[@newsunderfoot]

On the tombstone of Kant at the wall of the Cathedral (the cathedral was restored in 2005), only his name and years of life are written. In the cathedral itself, the Kant Museum (with a library) occupies three floors. There are many exhibits and materials about the life and work of the philosopher. In the memorial hall of the museum there is a copy of Kant's death mask.

[@thermofisherru7259]

Would you say during WWII to nazi German tour guide "Best wishes always. And may Peace prevail on Earth and between Nazis and Jews, and all the World" Russia is fascists' country now I can't understund why you support it?

[@annafromrussia]

I would like to visit Kaliningrad 😍

[@stavroskon2512]

Me too!!

[@nicholasboncardo]

Very nice video! My family was from Königsberg; I always wanted to visit Kaliningrad one day!

[@skyguyxninja5650]

The entire old town is destroyed not much to seen today and nothing was rebuilt

[@retroas2683]

​​@@skyguyxninja5650lmao. Do you even watch the video? What a failure

[@edelweiss-]

@@skyguyxninja5650 traurig...

[@derrezensent]

According to the logic of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kaliningrad still belongs to Germany under the name Königsberg since about 1300, founded by the Teutonic Knights. Only, Germany existed around 1300 only in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation!

[@AndreaBorto]

@@PaPyRene or Ruzis (Russian Nazis)

[@ensteffo]

+Der Rezensent Germany lost the territory in WW2 after having murdered tens of millions of people.

[@derrezensent]

@@ensteffo Right, you're right! Only President Putin believes he is still alive in the 14th century, and it was Prussia, or more precisely East Prussia, who founded Koenigsberg. And Putin is a true historian. He must know.

[@durshurrikun150]

How about you google stuff instead of parroting nonsense you read on the internet?

[@statusdisarray9598]

The fish in the grocer looked so health in the clean tanks. Our live fish area or crab or lobster tanks are horrific dirty sometimes dead fish with live . Omg a marzipan museum??? I need to go ! I love love marzipan!

[@manoftheworld1000]

I must not travel to Kalinigrad if I don't want to eat tons of marzipan and get fat😟/LOL!

[@charleswells5266]

Thanks for the tour of Kaliningrad, it's as very interesting city , people seem to be happy living there even with what is going on in Ukraine. Keep up the good work enjoy all your videos.👩🌿🎥

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

It's great to learn that Russian people are normal too!!!!

[@margo7059]

Так война с 2014 года идёт. И санкции тоже с 2014. Мы привыкли. Тем более сейчас, когда нарыв прорвался и запад сбросил маски. Есть уверенность что Донбасс наконец-то освободят. Я понимаю что для вас жители Донбасса люди второго сорта. Их можно убивать. Но для нас это родные, друзья, знакомые. Россия наконец-то смогла придти на помощь.

[@valde3336]

In a way that's bad the bad thing about russians. They are used to problems and bad things and rather than try to protest and stop them (what's happening in Ukraine now) they just cope with them and talk how it doesn't effect them at all even when it clearly does (even at personal level).

[@valde3336]

@@margo7059 If rescuing people from donbass area was the goal then why has russia bombed that area much more than Ukraine? Why is the russian military fighting mostly in totally different areas of Ukraine?

[@margo7059]

@@valde3336 Потому что Россия воюет не с украинцами. Ваш вопрос звучит примерно так - почему СССР воевал на своей территории с Германией, почему вы бомбили свои города, а не немецкие. Так линия фронта там, на Донбассе. И укрепрайоны там. От Донецка до Курахово все перекопано, в Авдеевке промзона как в Мариуполе. И бетонированные укрепления на территориях Донбасса, которые оккупировала Украина. Вы считаете что 7 лет, которые прошли с минских соглашений, прошли просто так? Там эшелонированная оборона. 3/4 этой линии уже взломаны. Вон в южнорусских причерноморских степях не было линии фронта и никто не бомбил ни Бердянск, ни Мелитополь, ни другие города. Даже Херсон спокойно взяли.

[@esinduhije1]

Another Beautiful video, thank you❤❤❤

[@mikep.9371]

Thanks for sharing your day off Eli. You are quite the explorer and always show us interesting places and things.

[@lilg2300]

my grandfather was born in kaliningrad, then called königsberg. he was german. we have a dish called königsberger klöpse in germany ;-)

[@nazihanii]

Your grandfather rather be born in Prussian Empire. He is just german in ethnicity

[@НадяМагомедова-ч5д]

Мне очень жаль, что Гитлер лишил Родины вашего дедушку

[@08ronbo]

Important phrase was …expulsion of Germans…

[@LukeXMV]

Evacuation 😂

[@Kilo500]

Giving to the fact how Germans behaved with Russians during World War II, expulsion does not sound that bad, does it? Russians could follow eye-for-eye concept.

[@jonathanwilson4016]

@@Kilo500 Molotov ribbentrop pact Russia were literally as bad as the Germans

[@ronaldbrunjes5379]

My grandfather lost his home in Königsberg, I would love to see if it's still there after WW2. Just a beautiful city, thank you for the video.

[@msotil]

There is absolutely no mystery as to the whereabouts of the Amber Room. Like Eli says, the Germans careful dismantled the fragile amber pieces to take them back home. They mounted the delicate pieces in wooden frames especially constructed for the move. It should be mentioned that before the Germans removed the Amber Room (the content, the amber pieces), the Soviets tried to dismantle the Amber Room for safekeeping and preservation from the war. However, they only succeeded in breaking many of the pieces and gave up attempting to dismantled the room and abandoned it to its fate. The Germans dismantled the Amber Room, packaged the wooden frames holding the amber pieces in crates and started the train journey to western Germany. The rail lines were under constant attack and bombardment by allied planes so the train with the amber cargo could only make it to Köningsberg, where the crates were unloaded and stored in the castle until another train became available. Trains had more urgent war cargos to move - personnel, the wounded, weapons, supplies, etc. - and space was not readily available. The Red Army arrived before the crates could be further transported. The Red Army soldiers, as it was the norm in those days, gave themselves to drinking, pillage, rape and destruction of the city and the population. It wasn't long before drunken soldiers were shooting up everything and setting buildings on fire. Unbeknownst to the Soviets that the Köninsberg castle held the Amber Room, they also set it on fire. The fire consumed the crates with the amber, a material that is highly flammable and burns like dried cotton (amber is pine resin, much like turpentine). When the fire was out, the only thing left in the room where the amber crates were deposited, were ashes and the steel hardware that had been used to make the wooden frames to mount the amber pieces. Is for the special mounting hardware that we know for sure the fate of the amber. However, the Soviets were not about to waste the opportunity to press demands on Germany for the return of the pieces they knew no longer existed. Much less were the Soviets to admit that their own soldiers had destroyed the Amber Room. After the war, West Germany undertook the project of meticulously reconstructing the Amber Room from photographs, using amber from the Baltic.

[@fabreezethefaintinggoat5484]

And then you woke up

[@epicsuper6775]

Beginning of this video, the place where you sat on the grass, the building behind you, I think, the burial ground of the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant is located there.

[@tomsaywer8403]

The most beautiful buildings have Prussian culture origins the most ugly buildings have soviet culture origins.

[@helenamariechristina]

Hi, Eli! You use such good music, the end of this video had a really cool piece - what was it? I liked it very much.

[@tomjut9761]

Cool to see the cobble stone paved roads, you find the same in the older parts of Helsinki, not so far away. Not great for a comfortable car ride though...😂 Great video as always, keep it up!

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

I've seen some places that have mainly cobbled streets, I'm guessing they have lasted the test of time better than asphalt.

[@Frank-el3fy]

Eli, There are mainstream media film crews that do not produce such quality videos. I’ve learned so much from following your travels. God Bless…

[@mehmetkurtkaya3106]

Привет Эли, замечательно видео. Какой сюрприз марзипан, я совсем люблю марзипан, напоминает мне мои детство когда я часто ел марзипан вовремя читать дети книги, это было очень приятно. Я еще люблю марзипан как всегда. Калининград кажется спокойно мало район, мне особенно нравится кадры с кататься на велосипед, идеально дла мало город. Я не против Хрушовка, они не красивые но напоминает СССР заботиться об лудеи, поэтому нет бездомный людей. Я поддержал СССР когда молодой человек в университет 1985-1990 в Турции, только несколько студенты со мной делится это осущественни (feeling?) и мы не нравились Горбачев, yuck. Anyways great video as always, will hopefully join the Russian speaking club later in Autumn, я начал большинство понимать объявления вакансии в России, с помощью онлайн словар но никогда не говорил по русский.

[@7000fps]

Love The soul-less brutal architecture of the soviet-era.....have fun climbing out of Putlers bloody hole he has dug for all the passive residents..Yea empty shelves and bread lines!!!!

[@Pedros-g5q]

Nazi exclave with nazi people

[@krissdev6301]

Haha I can say that most of Russians also don’t like Gorbachev now same as you😃😁

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@@krissdev6301 We maybe you're happy to hear that he's dead now.

[@tildarusso]

Super love your narrative style and contents, informative, peaceful and soothing. Love your smile even more.

[@honesty_-no9he]

That ferry sums up the downside of Russia. A bunch of fossil fuel vehicles on a noisy fossil fuel ferry. In Norway they have electric ferries that can take 90 cars or more and at least 300 people and they cross large fjords in a 20 to 30 minute journey. Electric cars get to use the ferry for free. Even in the Western enclave of Russia there is no change in mentality. Sad.

[@toxic_avenger]

Well, Norway is like the forefront of the European civilization, meanwhile Russia is on the outskirts of it. There are light years in between these two.

[@AndreaBorto]

@@toxic_avenger this is why russi,instead of peaceful and honest partnership with the west, just propelled propaganda craps and try to invade and conquer the res of europe.ask czechs and baltics about their factories and know how,dismantled and sent to urals. Russia needs west more than us theie raw materials.

[@colonelfustercluck486]

Norway has it's oil revenue..... oh did I say oil? How dirty, Norway should stop production immediately. Or donate the profits to a worthy cause. Anyway, the other countries without large amounts of money coming in from oil, is that the ordinary countries cannot afford to have the superior attitude of "Oh we use electric cars and ferries" while having the fossil fuel, oil to finance it. Everything electric is expensive including the infrastructure. Is the electricity from a nice Atomic Power station, or those reliable Diesel Generator Power Stations, or Coal Fired Electricity? There is no 'hydro-power' or suitable places for "solar" in some locations..... Some countries are not fortunate in their physical location or suitability (in engineering terms) to have that sort of clean power.

[@DigiMakc]

В чужом глазу соринку вижу, в своём - бревна не замечаю. 😂

[@durshurrikun150]

Cool now google Norwegian oil industry. Also, remember that Norway is one of the country that profits the most of the pillaging of the global south.

[@daleb1852]

Здорово! Я собираюсь впервые в жизни посетить Калининград и нашла ваше видео. Вы молодец!!! ❤

[@torgeirbrandsnes1916]

Great vlog as always! Thank you for visiting Kalleningrad! I want to go too! That was not sausage but soup! The swedes makes soup and pack them like that. Keep up the good work!

[@juavi6987]

No, it was Jelly-meat (Sülzwurst or Aspik in German), I suppose.

[@nailamovsumzade8702]

This was amazing! thank you, we really enjoyed watching 🥰😇

[@abhishekmahanta1112]

Beautiful as always Eli, it's hard to believe you are a one man or rather women production. 👍

[@jorgruthschilling]

This transparent sausage is called "Aspic" it is very popular in Germany (Sülze) . But it is also part of baltic cuisine and many other European countries. But if I search on yandex image search for "Холодец" it seems it is also in large regions in northern Russia known. Food geography is really a very interesting topic and it shows us how strong cultural interchange has been over centuries.

[@maxim.j22]

Да, похоже на холодец

[@fanfarlom4119]

Královec ❤🇨🇿☺

[@ВладКочубей-н2к]

Kaliningrad. It cost's 40.000.000 Soviet's lives

[@trixus4768]

@@ВладКочубей-н2к no it didn't. You are saying that because for some reason, Russian poeple think that they have won the second world war all by themselves... Also, no wonder it cost Soviet Union so much lives. Stalin was throwing soldiers against German guns. Maybe, some sort of strategy would probably help... But you just don't see that. Just because so many Soviets died in World War 2 you think that you have the right to take whatever you want...

[@Karadum]

@@ВладКочубей-н2к Oh, so it was not liberation but conquest by the Soviet union? Thanks for confirming that.

[@ВладКочубей-н2к]

It doesn't matter, what you'll say..Kaliningrad-Russian city, all country's recognise it

[@Karadum]

@@ВладКочубей-н2к 1. You brought up the dead as an argument why it is Kaliningrad - formerly a German city. 2. Welcome to languages. Kralovec is the proper Czech name for Kaliningrad. Or do you pronounce properly Praha in Russian? No, you use Прага. 3. Or wait, are you actually a butt-hurt idiot who did not understand a joke about Kralovec being a Czech city? :D

[@TodayFreedom]

Very well made video! Very interesting, and the mixed format of interviews etc is great. Well done! 👍🏻

[@jamesmadisonwilliams4210]

This is Königsberg not Kaliningrad you ethnically cleansed and exterminated the German Prussians who originally inhabited Prussia and Eastern Germany. This land belongs to them and it should be returned to the Germans and their descendants who live in Northern Germany.

[@solinvictus39]

The modern German government would house African and muslim refugees there. LOL. I think it is better the Russians have it.

[@henningbartels6245]

the old Königsberger are merely dead by now.

[@jamesmadisonwilliams4210]

@@henningbartels6245 there descendants exist in Northern and Eastern Germany today?

[@henningbartels6245]

@@jamesmadisonwilliams4210 yes, enjoying the cafes of Hamburg or the bars of Berlin. Very unlikely that they want to move to Soviet style concrete blocks. They don't have any sentimental connection to East Prussia.

[@durshurrikun150]

"This land belongs to them and it should be returned to the Germans and their descendants who live in Northern Germany" Google the 2+4 treaty. Germany reneged any claims to this land when it reunified with the DDR.

[@wimwittouck8535]

Very nice Film Eli, I used to,live nearby in Olsztyn and always dreamed to Visit Kaliningrad as I had a lot of Friends and Business contact sind,over there, but as a Belgian Citizen ist was not that easy 20 years ago to get a Visum as Polnisch people got are german, but your view on the City answers what I was expecting and still would love to visit. Why nowadays they have Not so much europäische Food anymore is due to the Embargo because of the Annexation of the Krim and actuelly the war in Ukraine, in the Time I was living in Mazury, 20-25 years ago there was a big Exchange of goods and Lots of Business Between Kaliningrad and Europe

[@newsunderfoot]

20-25 years ago, there was no developed agriculture and processing industry in Russia. After 2014, they appeared and achieved impressive success.

[@НадяМагомедова-ч5д]

Крым вернули в Россию. Севастополь всегда считался русским городом

[@albertoromani2244]

Brava Eli ! Sempre piacevole vedere I tuoi video ! Keep creating beautiful reports of your adventures! Love and light from Italy! Ciao !

[@gabrielasmoje2355]

Eli, your voice is very pleasant to hear. Your English is very good too. Yo do a great job. 👏👏👏

[@BruceLee-lt9lu]

My Grandmother comes from Königsberg, i am proud to be german, and i like my real Russian Brothers and Sisters, greetings 👋 ❤️

[@ac4842]

They stole your land and genocide your people there, yet you like them hahaha

[@suppenmannsocke9650]

@@ac4842 why shouldn’t we? We started this shit so ofc we lost land and yes the genocide was horrible but these are normal people like you and me and tbh we should all forgive each other for anything we did.

[@beaverix]

Well you accepted your past and are sorry for it. You have paid for what you did in both of the world wars and then the world moved on. My impression is that the only thing Russians are sorry for is that their stupid aggression didn’t work out as planned. But still they are not stopping

[@TheBobVova]

@@beaverix It's a defense, not aggression.

[@beaverix]

@@TheBobVova according to your logic, if i come over to your house and kick your balls, its defense.

[@shiveshshukla]

Your blogs are simply amazing and beautiful

[@Larisa-Jane_Rumsfeld]

Some of my relatives are from Kaliningrad.

[@Larisa-Jane_Rumsfeld]

No. They're Russian.

[@maikotter9945]

entry of 1st September 2022 IS EVERY HUMAN, GENETACALLY RELATED TO EVERY OTHER HUMAN?

[@simonsmatthew]

Such high quality videos, good choice of music too.

[@FalconsEye58094]

Very fascinating video, I might like to visit it because its such an interesting geopolitical situation and it seems to have such an identity of its own a mix between Russian and European

[@Hellmood_CZ]

Such a wonderful Czech territory , love it

[@karmelionlm7483]

🤣🤣🤣

[@DereineLord]

Czech Lmao

[@barbararichterova8182]

Královec!

[@mikoajbadzielewski3396]

Jo? A widzieliście nasza... jak wy to... Armada? Królewiec jest Polski😉

[@paularnoldus1877]

no Putin logic is: whatever we occupy is Russia - Russia is where we are....

[@bgould72]

Hello Elina, Greetings from USA. My favorite channel on KZbin.

[@CarterKey6]

Agree I’m constantly checking for new videos and today is Kaliningrad even better

[@MimiBeeswing]

Thank you for covering this area .My family history and relatives are from this region, left in 1945 . I enjoyed seeing the area in your doco. ❤

[@rexbenemerito1943]

Da Its a nice place. Clean, beautiful and friendly locals. Hope the war ends soon and peace will reign again so tourist can flock to this place again. Thanks for sharing.

[@АндрейШестаков-н6м]

From Kaliningrad with love. We hope so too.

[@janroach1852]

Will tourists ever flock to Russian territory again? I highly doubt it. Possibly a few Russophiles will. Be careful of your luggage, though. You may end up in a gulag for ten years. It goes without saying not to bring drugs into Russia. I am referring to people such as Paul Whelan, who was in Russia attending a friend's wedding, currently rotting in a high security prison in Russia. Two of our compatriots bringing marijuana products into Russia (medical marijuana) are rotting in jail for a ten year stint, despite the fact that murderers are out in seven years in Russia.

[@Dread_2137]

A few corrections, Kaliningrad was originally called Tuwangste, founded by the Baltic people known as the Prussians, where in the second half of the 12th century, the Teutonic Knights established the Regiomontium castle (the royal mountain in Latin, hence the German name (and few other in other languagues)). After the country was taken over by the Teutonic Knights, Prussia was called "monastic Prussia", and then in the 16th century, after Poland had taken it over, it was called "Polish/Royal Prussia". Prussia did not become part of Germany until the beginning of 18th century, when the Brandenburg-Prussia union was created. Since then, germans called themselves Prussia, only to be called Germany since 1866.

[@AkakaDomenjer]

Prussians are germanic.

[@TheKarlyzz]

I just said that comment because I'm baltic. good on you bro you did it first. they also had a bridge from Kaunas to it.

[@gabriellagirardi4741]

Thank you Eli for this beautiful video. It is always a pleasure to watch your reports on Russia, as you are a professional and fantastic reporter. Kaliningrad is undoubtedely wonderful and it is true that it looks more like a European city than a Russian one and its history and position demostrates it very clearly and even its inhabitants feel very close to European culture.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

Hi!!!!

[@alfredneuman6488]

Kaliningrad looks European with the exception of the slum housing because it is European, not Russian.

[@stevan2399]

Ever wonder how she makes all thsse nice videos, and has so much money and time to travel??? Seems obvious she gets government support to spew the official propaganda from Putin.

[@alfredneuman6488]

@@stevan2399 I like to think that it is the money from viewers. BUT, I see these Kaliningrad videos and I wonder. Kaliningrad is just a russian military outpost on another countries territory as far as I am concerned and I would hope that no one who enjoys freedom supports them financially.

[@deniskosian2934]

We spent many vacations in Europe. In summer it was basically Spain, in winter it was Austria. When covid 19 has come we had to spend vacations in Russia. Thus we visited Kaliningrad region (as well as Kaliningrad itself) a couple times. And I thought to myself that it is even better for us than Europe. It looks like Europe, has the service and facilities like in Europe. On the other hand everyone around you speaks Russian. The only lack Kaliningrad region does have, it is small.