"Its personal possession on the territory exceeded Germany, United Kingdom and France together taken"

105 years ago, in July, 1918, after execution of Nikolay II and members of his family, the new stage of hunting behind precious property being "the owner of land of the Russian", before renunciation quite reasonably being considered as one of the most well-founded, if not the richest person on a planet began; and this search proceeded more than 15 years. "Would be useless work to try to define, what about a sum could be realized from sales these well-known jewelry" (on a photo — imperial gold ware, the 1860th years) the Photo: Library of Congress "Reached Hundred Million Rubles Gold" "In...