The recent news about the found train with Nazi gold suggests that the legendary treasures can still be found even after a few decades. Well, about other equally valuable treasures that have not been discovered, we will consider in this review.
The Lost Amber Room
The famous Amber Room originated not from the reign of Peter I in Russia, but during the reign of Frederick I in Prussia. The king supported the desire of his wife Sophia-Charlotte to make a cabinet decorated with amber. But, in connection with the death of the august person, and then her husband, they never saw the end of the work. Their son Frederick Wilhelm I considered the venture with the study wasteful and handed over unfinished canvases from amber to Peter I. In 1743, already under Elizabeth Petrovna, they were an adornment of the Winter Palace. After 10 years, the canvases were moved to the Catherine Palace and supplemented with new fragments. As you know, during the Second World War, the Amber Room was kidnapped by the Germans and exhibited in Konigsberg. By the end of the war, traces of the Amber Room were lost.
Gold reserves of the Russian Empire
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire had the largest gold reserve. According to some estimates, it was 1311 tons of gold, which corresponded to 1 billion 695 million rubles (60 million dollars at the current exchange rate). During the First World War, part of the gold reserves were transferred to banks in Europe as collateral for the Allies to pay for arms shipments. After the Revolution of 1917, the new government demanded the return of gold, but no one began to return it. Another part of the gold reserve was moved by the Provisional Government to Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, and then came under the control of Kolchak (about 505 tons). And again they "settled" in foreign banks. Rough estimates put the value of the imperial gold reserves in banks at between $ 100 billion and $ 300 billion.
Leon Trabucco's gold
During the Great Depression of 1929-1934, the dollar fell sharply, and the value of gold, on the contrary, increased incredibly in price, the Mexican millionaire Leon Trabucco decided to make a "profitable business". In Mexico, he bought out gold reserves in order to then sell them profitably in the United States. The cache where the gold was brought was set up somewhere in the New Mexico desert. But while the Mexican was buying up as much gold as possible, the United States passed a law on the Gold Reserve, which made it illegal for individuals to own large quantities of gold. After that, literally in 5 years, those who knew the whereabouts of the metal died, and Trabucco was never able to sell the "unlucky" gold. Nobody knows where it is now.
Catskills Mountains - Where Schultz's Treasures Are Buried
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While Prohibition promises ruin for some in the United States, others have done good business on it. The Dutchman Schultz, known in gangster circles, made his fortune through the illegal sale of alcohol. He hid his wealth in the Catskill Mountains in the vicinity of New York, and took the information about the exact location with him to the grave. Due to heavy rainfall, the treasures had to be washed to the surface from somewhere, but no one is sure about this.
In times of war, not everyone stole treasure. There were also those who returned them to their rightful owners.
