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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Hi Eli, I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!

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!

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

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.

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

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...

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

Thanks for the English subtitles 👍 Btw great video!

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

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

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

Great vlog. Keep up Eli, you are great.

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

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

Eli u are great. Thanks for sharing x

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

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! 💖

Beautiful location ☺️😊 thanks 🙏

Such high quality videos, good choice of music too.

Fantastic video! I’m definitely in the ❤ marzipan team

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 💜

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.

Great Content!!

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

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

I am in team love Marzipan, great video on Kaliningrad!! It is a place I think most of us don¨t know much about

Great video :) thanks

Very interesting and informative, thank you!

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!

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

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

Beautiful city! Great video, thank you!

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.

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!

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

Thanks for your nice work promoting freedom, knowledge and peace among human beings. 🙏🙏🙏

Very informative, interesting video, thank you for your work !

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 !

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. ❤

Excellent video - Well done.

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.

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!

Hello from Kaliningrad! The video came out very interesting. I wish you to continue your vlog💗😺

Eli, I love your videos!!!! I started watching it yesterday when I was searching for Bashkirs. So glad you still keep making vids despite what's going on politically.

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

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.

I think a behind the scenes video would be cool, too... how you do all the research, planning, traveling, cutting, etc.

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…

Awesome video Eli! I thoroughly enjoyed the history lessons and sights, and looking forward to seeing more. Positive vibes baby, positive vibes!! 👍👍☺️

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......

Very Cool Video😀

great video to learn about Kaliningrad. Thanks

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

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

Thank you for making those videos and I love marzipan

Хорошое видео Элли 👍👏

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

Happy to watch the video. I just love amber; just a wondrously vibrant stone; and some amber with fossils is also neat for jewelry and such. I've never tried the chocolate bar you're discussing but I'm fascinated by history like that: that shows you that even in hard times people find a way to bake bread. I like your videos and want to learn Russian but I still have hopes of progress with my current Russian course with Nastya of Moscow. I mean; it's not perfect I would describe myself as a contented student so I don't want to take on another Russian course; But I would love to learn Russian phrases as part of these videos.

Wow what a great video Eli super enjoyable and professional. You have beautiful handwriting! Oh I have to go to bed I've work tomorrow. I wish I could see some of these places in person, especially St.Petersburg winter palace.

Wow. The amber museum looks amazing.

Eli, so glad I am still able to see your posts. Your videos teach me so much about the different parts of Russia that I am eager to learn.

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

I love marzipan. Thanks for another great video!

Thank you for your great video and the many interesting information. I am looking forward to my three-week vacation in Kaliningrad. Best wishes from Berlin

I'm glad you keep posting & showing the warmth and goodness of the common Russian people - thank you

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 ❤.

I love your videos!

Thanks Eli. Nice video about this peculiar enclave in the Baltic

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!

I can't remember if I ever had Königsberger Marzipan even though I have ancestry coming from Königsberg (so you can imagine how excited I am to watch this video ☺). But I definitely have to visit Калининград one day and try their marzipan. I am amazed by the fact that you can buy Schogetten for instance at the supermarket or that Kaiserhof (Кайзерхоф) kept its name.

Спасибо Eli ! Kalingrad seems like a city worth visiting indeed.

Congratulations Eli , very nice movie . Wishing to visit It once as well ! Also thanks to refresh my Memory about the Marzapane origin ....I really did forget It ...Greetings from Italy and may God bless all the good people of Our World

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.

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.

You are such a great educator! Thank you!

Love your channel lots! very informative 🥰🥰🥰 Love from 🇿🇦

great video...such a good information about Kaliningrad and it's history...good job...really big thanks to you for sharing with us..

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

Always love your video

Thank you Eli for this wonderful video. You showed us a lot of interesting things about Kaliningrad. Would love to see the beach activities during the summer. Спасибо.

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.

Very interesting, thank you.

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