Mystery of the Russian Tsar’s Lost Gold
When a crown has held power for centuries, it isn’t hard to believe that it will do anything to protect its wealth and power when warning its own vulnerability. Just in the case the proximity of its defeat is mistaken. The Czar’s lost gold is one of the oldest mysteries in the modern world.
As explained in last post, after the revolution there was a red side and a white side that confronted each other for the control of a nation that was mired in scarcity and uncertainty. The whites were defending the interest of the royal family. It is said that the gold reserve of the Romanovs was one of the largest amongst all European kingdoms. It is also said that they managed to keep it safe from the Red Army, thanks to Admiral Alexander Kolchak, after whom the treasure was renamed. What happened to the gold is the body of the mystery.
Theories and conjectures of all kinds have raised and hundreds of searchers have gone to find the treasure using historical documents and mathematical calculations. Kazan, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lake Baikal and even Beijing and Tokyo, have all been visited by secret, official, and unofficial missions throughout the 20th century. It is probable, however, that each theory has some truth in it and that the gold is distributed in several of these places, scattered along the transiberian railway, which was used as an escape route of the White Army and its resources. It is also possible that the gold had simply been used by the military to supply and fund themselves in the remaining time of the war, which they obviously intended to win. If this is true, the mysterious treasure could have ended up with no pain nor glory in the hands of European Banks and companies that added billionaire interests to the debt.
We can’t be sure of anything. What we do know is that Admiral Kolchak was killed by the reds and that the official record of the gold is missing. Red Snow, Golden Clouds provides a new approach to the query of this mystery, that doesn’t seem to ever die. Our two protagonists Andrew and Katya find the two halfs of a treasure map. Will it lead them to the gold. Will they be able to discover the real fate of the Czar’s lost gold?
If you want to learn more about the lost gold of the Czar you can visit these sources:
http://russiasgreatwar.org/media/international/kolchaks.shtml
And you can also watch this video:
“Red Snow, Gold Clouds” thriller by Marianna Baker and Anna Baker