Undoubtedly, the bowels of the Earth contain countless treasures. People have learned to mine, process precious stones, turning them into jewelry of amazing beauty. Of particular interest are diamonds, which are valued for their unusual brilliance of edges and play of color. Many romantic legends, fatal secrets are associated with these unique stones.
Diamonds are credited with the ability to improve the fertility of the land and the fact that they contribute to well-being. Surprisingly, there is evidence that they can also heal serious illnesses: you just have to dip the diamond in water and drink it after a while.
Many statesmen and military men considered the diamond a stone that brought victory and good luck. The diamond has become a talisman for many famous military leaders.
Only in the middle of the 15th century did women pay attention to diamond jewelry. The first to wear a diamond jewelry was the favorite of the French king - Agnes Sorel. Since that time, the most unique precious stones have been given names.
Esotericists assure that human destinies are reflected in the facets of unique diamonds, as in transparent water. The Sansi diamond is such a gem with mystical properties and amazing destiny.
According to legend, in the 11th century, the caravan of the merchant Jagattunga passed by the deep Adamas gorge (India). Everyone knew that the gorge was famous for diamonds, but it was difficult to go down to the bottom and was forbidden by religion. The merchant noticed the shine of a large stone at the bottom of a mountain river flowing through the gorge. His servants took out the find and Jagattunga saw a large, without a single crack, precious stone, transparent, like the water of a mountain stream. The merchant sold the find, and this was the beginning of the difficult path of the diamond.
At first he passed from one Indian ruler to another, until he fell into the hands of Sultan Giyas-Ud-Din. His son and heir to the Tughlak dynasty decided to appropriate the diamond in any way. He hoped that while his father was on another military campaign, he would be able to steal the precious stone. But it turned out that the sultan took the stone with him as a talisman of good luck. The Sultan returned from the campaign unharmed. But the son did not abandon attempts to appropriate the diamond. Arranging a celebration on the occasion of a successful campaign, he ordered the construction of a rotunda with a heavy gilded dome. Only a small bamboo trunk supported the roof of this festive building. One of the sides of the rotunda was covered with fresh palm branches, protecting the Sultan sitting under the roof of the building from the scorching rays of the sun. By tradition, war elephants were led past the rotunda. The son of the rulerbefore the parade, he ordered not to feed the elephants, and they, seeing fresh palm leaves, rushed to the rotunda, under which the Sultan was sitting. The building could not withstand the onslaught, Giyas-Ud-Din died under the fallen roof of the gazebo, and the valuable stone passed into the hands of his insidious heir. Soon the criminal was responsible for his atrocity, he was wounded while hunting and died. Then it was suggested that the diamond "punishes" cruelly those who acquired it dishonestly.
In the 15th century, the diamond came to Europe. It was acquired by the ancestor of the Duke of Burgundy. According to legend, he had three beautiful diamonds, which he ordered to be cut. One he gave to the Pope, the second - to the French monarch Louis XI, and the third he kept for himself: it was subsequently called "Sancy". As a result of cutting, the diamond has acquired the shape of a pear shining with thirty-two facets. After processing, its weight was estimated at 55 carats.
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Time has passed. Karl the Bold, used the diamond as a talisman, inserting the gem into his battle helmet. Soon he went to battle the Swiss. Before the troops met in mortal combat, Karl the Bold duel with the strongest of the enemy soldiers took place. And although Karl had to stand against the sun, which caused a murmur among his soldiers, he tried to make the sunbeam fall on the diamond. The bright light blinded the enemy and Karl struck the attacker with a spear. The Duke's victory frightened the Swiss, they had already lost the battle. But military happiness is changeable, in 1477 Charles the Bold was defeated, in which he lost his helmet with a precious diamond. A simple soldier found him. He sold the find to a priest. But that evening he was beaten to death in a drunken brawl. The priest died on the same day, as soon as he sold the stone for a pittance. It is seen,such a disdainful attitude did not like the mystical diamond, and he, thus, took revenge on the offenders.
And again the stone passed from hand to hand until it was acquired by diplomat Nicolas Arles de Sancy, representing the interests of France in Turkey. Since then, the diamond has acquired the name of its owner - "Sansi". Soon, Nicolas Arles returned to France and became an assistant to the monarch Henry III. The king constantly lacked funds to maintain the army, and he shamelessly "borrowed" money from his subordinates. More than once the Sancy diamond acted as a pledge in banks to receive a loan, but the owner, Nicolas Arlet, stubbornly bought his jewel every time. But in 1605, Nicolas Arles, who was at that time in the rank of the country's first minister, had to sell the stone to the English monarch Jacob I. Half a century later, the diamond returned to France as a gift to Cardinal Mazarin. "Sancy" became part of the famous collection - "Mazarin Diamonds". After the death of the cardinal,the collection passed into the possession of King Louis XIV.
The Duke of Orleans knew a lot about the history and properties of the Sancy diamond. He left interesting notes on this matter. According to him: each ancient gem has its own aura, just like humans. The Sancy diamond is no exception, and it turns out to have a bad history. It brought only misfortune and death to its owners. The Duke claimed that the stone was found more than 700 years ago. And the story is this: the Indian Raja came to check his diamond mines. In his presence, the slave found a large yellowish diamond. In gratitude for the find, the raja had to give the slave freedom. But greed leaped up in the master, having snatched the stone from the hands of the slave, he declared that he had found the stone. Then the slave cursed the stone and predicted that he would only bring trouble to his masters.
For a long time, the Sancy diamond adorned the headdress of the French king. Louis XVI inserted Sancy into his crown. Then the stone, at the insistence of the queen, was fixed on her fan. Most likely, the stone could not stand such a disrespectful attitude towards itself and showed its inner essence: France was shaken by popular unrest, revolutions, the last royal couple of Bourbons died on the scaffold. And the Sancy diamond was put on public display among other treasures of the former king. The people decided that all the treasures belonged to him (in the literal sense). And a few days after the opening of the exhibition, all the treasures went into the "people's" pockets of Parisian thieves.
For four decades, there was no information about the Sancy diamond. But then one day, a copy of a diamond appeared in Paris … made of glass. But the jeweler Marion, demonstrating the glass stone to wealthy buyers, offered to introduce them to the real owner of the jewelry. The police began searching for the diamond. Marion himself did not know the owner of the jewel, since they contacted him secretly. The unlucky jeweler was in despair: all potential buyers fled when they learned about the investigation, except for the Russian millionaire Demidov. The Russian buyer insisted that he was completely indifferent to whether a diamond was stolen or not. The French government insisted on declaring the purchase of the stone by the Russian "crazy" invalid until it was established who had the stone after it had disappeared from revolutionary Paris. And the scandal would have continued indefinitely if the Duchess of Berry had not intervened. She went to court and stated that "Sansi" had never been displayed in the window, since she had it all that time. The diamond was given to her by Queen Marie Antoinette, so she has the right to sell it. And Demidov, according to her, is worthy of such a purchase, since he plans to present it to his bride. The heir to the richest clan, the Demidovs, took the Sancy diamond to Russia, far from the Parisian palaces. And no one even suspected that the Duchess of Berry was paid a hundred thousand pounds for testifying in court, and her lawyers were even more. But could Demidov be stopped by these fantastic costs?The diamond was given to her by Queen Marie Antoinette, so she has the right to sell it. And Demidov, according to her, is worthy of such a purchase, since he plans to present it to his bride. The heir to the richest clan, the Demidovs, took the Sancy diamond to Russia, far from the Parisian palaces. And no one even suspected that the Duchess of Berry was paid a hundred thousand pounds for testifying in court, and her lawyers were even more. But could Demidov be stopped by these fantastic costs?The diamond was given to her by Queen Marie Antoinette, so she has the right to sell it. And Demidov, according to her, is worthy of such a purchase, since he plans to present it to his bride. The heir to the richest clan, the Demidovs, took the Sancy diamond to Russia, far from the Parisian palaces. And no one even suspected that the Duchess of Berry was paid a hundred thousand pounds for testifying in court, and her lawyers were even more. But could Demidov be stopped by these fantastic costs?that for testifying in court the Duchess of Berry was paid a hundred thousand pounds, and her lawyers even more. But could Demidov be stopped by these fantastic costs?that for testifying in court the Duchess of Berry was paid a hundred thousand pounds, and her lawyers even more. But could Demidov be stopped by these fantastic costs?
Demidov fulfilled his promise and presented the beautiful Sansi diamond to his beloved woman, his wife, Aurora, the maid of honor of the imperial court. In 1865 the Demidovs sold the Sancy.
The Louvre acquired it in 1978. Today it is housed in the Apollo Gallery of the famous museum.
Only time will tell whether the path of the famous and mysterious diamond will continue …