The American decided to find the treasures of the Russian crown and return them to Russia. To do this, she is going to go on an expedition to the Gobi Desert. These treasures were hidden there by her adoptive father, the keeper of the Romanov treasury
Los Angeles resident, "socialite" and wealthy heiress Patt Barham is going to send an expedition to the Gobi Desert (Mongolia) to search for the treasures of the Russian crown buried there.
Diamonds, Faberge eggs, crowns and tiaras, gold-encrusted paintings, rubies, sapphires are in seven safes 10 feet deep in the center of the Gobi Desert, the elderly American is sure, writes the Los Angeles Times. According to her, her stepfather, a native of Russia, buried the treasure in the desert on October 3, 1917.
Her adoptive father, the Russian aristocrat Georgy Meskhi-Glebov emigrated to the United States after the October Revolution. Shortly before his death in 1960, he presented Bareham with a map showing the exact location of the treasure. However, he asked her not to take any steps until the Romanov dynasty was officially rehabilitated.
However, after this happened in 1998, the map mysteriously disappeared.
The American said she would return the diamonds to Russia. “The treasures must be returned to the Russian people,” she says.
Several years ago, she unsuccessfully tried to attract Discovery Channel to the search. However, the management did not enter into a contract with her, since she could not reproduce the map. Now an elderly American woman claims to remember the map by heart. In her current search, she will rely on the 1916 map of Mongolia: so she is confident that she can find the treasures buried by her stepfather.
Glebov served in the royal treasury. According to the American, on February 28, 1917, Queen Alexandra ordered him to personally take the treasures to the state bank of China. The treasures were packed in seven coffins, two of which contained the bodies of children. This was done in order to calm the Chinese border guards and explain to them that the coffins are being taken for ceremonial burial.
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When the cavalcade passed through the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, it was attacked by bandits. For security reasons, Glebov decided to bury the treasure in the desert.
A year later, he emigrated to the United States.