After the execution of the last tsar's family, the once rich treasury was left with only one mystery - 1,600 tons of ** mysteriously disappeared, and a treasure hunt across the centuries began.
In 1918, the once-thriving Russian Empire was on the verge of decay, and the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were brutally murdered. However, before that, Nicholas II had secretly sent someone to transfer the property, and the 1,600 tons** were quietly emptied, and their whereabouts are still unknown.
So, how did Nicholas II, who ruled the Tsarist Russian Empire, come to an end?Are those priceless ** really disappeared without a trace?In 1917, the Russian Empire was on the verge of collapse, and all kinds of epidemics, wars, and turmoil were like dark clouds, bringing endless darkness to Nicholas II's reign.
However, the last straw that broke the camel's back was the wave of revolution in full swing. The war had exhausted the Russian Empire, prices were skyrocketing, people were suffering from chronic hunger, and even the Tsar's court was full of unrest.
On February 8, the railway transport line in Petrograd was interrupted by a heavy snowfall, the food ** was in crisis, and the workers were in a panic, which triggered strikes and ** activity.
Nikolai, instigated by the soldiers, decided to resort to brutal means to suppress the workers' **. Although he was advised not to commit such an act of self-defeat, he was stubborn and did not listen to him at all.
On the 26th, the tsarist army carried out a large-scale crackdown on the demonstrative workers, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of people, nearly two hundred**. However, such repressive actions did not achieve the desired effect, but further exacerbated the collapse of tsarist rule.
The workers soon regrouped and took to the streets, shouting "Down with the Tsar!".”
The demonstrations escalated to the point of seizing ammunition depots and breaking into prisons at gunpoint to release prisoners. Eventually, the riots turned into a revolution intended to overthrow Tsarist rule, the February Revolution.
However, Nicholas II remained obsessed and insisted on sending troops for repression, which exacerbated the contradictions. Under these circumstances, two new powers were quickly established in the Tavlida Palace.
One is made of"Provisional Committee of the State Duma"composition, they demanded that Nicholas II immediately give way to his son;The other was a Soviet made up of representatives of the sappers.
The armies that had supported Nicholas II also turned their backs on him as the wind changed, leaving the last tsar in a predicament of being isolated. On March 1, the Provisional Committee of the Soviets and the Duma reached a consensus on the plan to persuade Nicholas II to abdicate.
The next day, Nicholas II had no choice but to abdicate under pressure from all sides. In his diary for that day, he wrote: "I left Pskov with a heart heavy from pain, surrounded by betrayal, cowardice and deceit! ”
However, he has not yet realized that what he is about to face will be an even more emotional ending.
On March 3, the birth of the provisional ** also symbolized the fall of the Romanov dynasty, and on this day, the Soviet Executive Committee made a decision to arrest the family of Nicholas II, placing them under surveillance.
In order to de-escalate the situation, the temporary ** was forced to deprive the tsar and his family of their freedom and send them to England. However, this decision did not calm the mood on the part of the Soviets, and in the end, the temporary ** had to compromise and send Nicholas II's family to Tsarskaya Village.
Kerensky, in order to prevent the actions of the Soviets, arranged for guards, but this seemingly protective act was actually the imprisonment of Nicholas II. However, the wheel of fate nevertheless pushed the Soviets to a position of victory, bringing the last Tsar Nicholas II to the end of his life.
So, why did Nicholas II die in the end? Where did those legendary ** go? In July 1917, the temporary transfer of Nicholas II's family to Siberia made his situation seem to have improved.
On November 7, the October Revolution broke out, and the fate of the last Tsar's family was once again in darkness. With the proletariat in power, Kerensky felt in danger and left them in a hurry, leaving only the family of Nicholas II, waiting for an unknown trial.
On February 26, 1918, the agents of Soviet power officially took over the supervision of Nicholas II's family, and a month later the decision was made to transfer them.
However, late at night on July 16, the guards suddenly came running and told Nicholas II: "Due to the unstable situation in the city, we must move your family from the upper floor to the basement. ”
The execution chamber of this last tsar was actually an elaborate basement. Nicholas II and his family members, including doctors and cooks, entered the place together.
Subsequently, they were asked to sit on two chairs. Immediately afterwards, a squad of soldiers with guns walked in and announced that they would be shot. Before Nicholas II could react, he was already **killed, and the scene was chaotic.
Others were also shot, and his two daughters were still moaning in pain after they fell. However, in order to prevent the outside world from hearing the gunshots, the soldiers did not continue to shoot.
In the midst of the revolution, the body of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, was secretly transported to an inaccessible place and burned, and then hastily buried in an abandoned mine.
However, when he was laid to rest, people were surprised to find that his huge inheritance had disappeared. It turned out that Nicholas II had already privately instructed Kolchak, commander of the Tsarist White Army, to quietly transfer 1600 tons ** from the state treasury.
Kolchak, a legend of the Russian Empire, was a scholar, explorer, brave warrior, and formidable admiral.
Determined to join the army since he was a child, he was strict with himself, and insisted on taking cold showers in winter, exercising, and preparing for joining the army. Finally, in 1888, at the age of 13, Kolchak was admitted to the St. Petersburg Naval Academy, fulfilling his dream of military service.
On the battlefield of World War I, as an officer of the Baltic Fleet, he was brave and outstanding, and became famous in World War I, commanding the fleet to defeat the German army and was promoted to rear admiral.
In 1916, he became the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, leading the Russian army to break through in the Black Sea battlefield, sinking many German ships, firmly grasping the black sea supremacy, and finally being promoted to admiral.
Kolchak achieved excellence on the battlefield, as a result of which he enjoyed a high reputation among soldiers and tsars. When the February Revolution broke out and Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, he was the first to stand up and express his unwavering support for the Provisional **.
When the deputies of the local Soviets demanded that he hand over the **, he stared at them resolutely, making it clear that they had not granted him these ** and would never allow them to take them.
In the face of a formidable opponent, he resolutely threw away the gilded saber in his hand, a move that shocked everyone. However, he did not shrink from this, on the contrary, after the revolution, he actively organized the White Army and resolutely fought against the Bolsheviks.
With the support of the British, he established an independent ** in Omsk, led the remnants of the White Army of more than 150,000 men, and put up fierce resistance with the Red Army. However, as the revolution deepened, the morale of the White Army fell again and again, and the morale of the people gradually weakened, which was in sharp contrast to the momentum of the Red Army.
In November 1919, the Red Army successfully occupied Omsk, and Kolchak, facing a sharp decline in strength, decided to move to the Pacific coast in order to save his life, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
The team includes nearly 500,000 troops, 750,000 displaced people, and more than 200,000 women and children, totaling about 1.4 million people.
In addition, the ranks carried a fortune of great value, namely 1,600 tons** left by the Tsar. These **, which were originally allocated to Kolchak by Nicholas II in the name of military expenses, were dispersed in 28 train cars under armed escort during the relocation.
*The mysterious disappearance of the train: The 1.45 million people escorted ** after the 6,000-kilometer trek of the Trans-Siberian Railway, thinking that it was foolproof, but it turned out that the cold was the biggest problem.
When Kolchak's large army had just embarked on the road of transfer, it encountered extreme cold ranging from 30 degrees Celsius to minus 60 degrees Celsius, which lasted for nearly three months, and ** disappeared during the transfer.
What kind of conspiracy is this, or is the forces of nature too strong?
In sub-zero temperatures, the train ran out of fuel, leaving the team stranded in the snow of Siberia. Faced with a difficult situation, Kolchak ordered the sturdy warriors to pull sleds by manpower and carefully transport the wagons loaded with ** on the snow-covered road.
However, this task was almost impossible to complete, and the personnel in charge of the transport gradually became exhausted on the way and fell to the snow one after another. In this way, 1600 tons of ** were left alone in the Siberian wilderness, and as the ice melted, they disappeared into the abyss of Lake Baikal along with the carriages.
After nearly a century of exploration, countless people have searched for the 1,600-ton ** in this vast and deep Baikal Lake, but most of them have come with hope and gone with disappointment.
However, it wasn't until 2009 that some suspected train wreckage and ** ammunition were found in Lake Baikal, and this major discovery led to speculation that the precious ** might be lying quietly at the bottom of the lake.
The Russian Academy of Sciences, together with a private company, spent a lot of money in July to conduct an ecological survey of the depths of Lake Baikal in order to find the famous treasures.
Two months later, two mini-submarines found fragments of the wreckage of some trains at the bottom of the lake. In August 2010, one of them, the Mir-2 submarine, discovered some glittering "long strips of metal" at the bottom of Lake Baikal.
If these are really the legendary Tsar 1,600 tons, they are now worth at least $70 billion.