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One of the main attractions of Kaliningrad is the Immanuel Kant Museum, located in the historic building of the Konigsberg Cathedral. In three exhibition halls on the fourth floor of the building, expositions are presented: `` Kant and Russia '', `` Kant and his entourage '' and the Kant Memorial Hall. The island in the center of Kaliningrad, where the museum is located, is also named after Kant.

The life story of the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant, who lived in the capital of East Prussia - Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad), is widely presented in the memorial hall. The first knowledge, hobbies, works, scientific activity and people who surrounded the founder of German philosophy are described in detail in the Albertina exposition. Here you can learn a lot, for example, that as a result of Russia's victory in the Seven Years' War, Immanuel Kant was a Russian citizen for several years. In the same room, you can see Kant's petition, sent to the Empress Elizabeth, with a request to appoint him to the post of head of the Department of Logic and Metaphysics. Also, the Immanuel Kant Museum tells in detail about the habits of local Masons and the customs of Masonic lodges of the 18-19 centuries. The museum windows are decorated with artistic stained-glass windows with Masonic symbols.

In the northeastern corner of the cathedral, there is the grave of Immanuel Kant, a professor at the University of Konigsberg, who never left his hometown, but is known throughout the world as a philosopher standing on the verge of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The building of Konigsberg Cathedral also houses museum exhibitions telling about the history of Kneiphof Island (now Kant Island), the famous Wallenrodt Library and Konigsberg University, whose activities are inextricably linked with the work of Kant.

In memory of Immanuel Kant in Kaliningrad, a monument (made according to the author's model of Rauch) was installed next to the University building and a personal bench near the Museum of the World Ocean, and a study-museum was created in the building of Kaliningrad University (previously - Albertine).

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