At the bottom of Lake Baikal, scientists have discovered some shiny objects that resemble gold bars. The find was made by members of the Mira on Lake Baikal scientific expedition during a dive in the area of the Circum-Baikal Railway.
The intrigue remains
Scientists began work on the lake in 2008. From the very beginning, they talked about the search for "Kolchak's gold" as their side goal. The legendary train was searched in parallel with scientific activities, but until August 2009, when the remains of a Civil War train were finally found, researchers could not find any trace of it.
According to the representative of the Fund for Assistance to the Preservation of Lake Baikal, last year the specialists could not complete the study of the train crash site due to worsening weather - the wind intensified on the lake.
Unfortunately, due to lack of time and technical difficulties, this year we did not manage to get the supposed gold bars to the surface either: Miras have already been sent for “wintering” at the base of underwater vehicles of the Institute of Oceanology. But the members of the expedition hope that next season they will be much more fortunate, and they will finally be able to get closer to the "mystery of Kolchak's gold."
As you know, "Kolchak's gold" is a part of the gold reserve of the Russian Empire, which, according to one of the legends, ended up in Baikal as a result of a train wreck. During the First World War, out of fear of the offensive of German troops, the values were transported by the government to the storerooms of the Kazan Bank.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the wealth passed to Alexander Kolchak. Then, during the retreat from Irkutsk, the admiral was captured by the soldiers of the Czechoslovak corps, who subsequently handed him and several cars with gold to the Bolsheviks in exchange for a safe evacuation from Russia. However, the remnants of wealth (over 180 tons) disappeared.
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Since then, the legend has lived about the gold reserve, lost in the Siberian expanses. Enthusiasts searched for gold bars near Krasnoyarsk, Baikal, and even in Primorye, but they did not find anything.
"The intrigue remains, because it is impossible to say with certainty whether there is Kolchak's gold here or it never was," Bair Tsyrenov, director of the Foundation for Assistance to the Preservation of Lake Baikal, told Interfax.
The conspired treasures of Stepan Razin
According to some experts, in the entire history of human civilization, people have hidden in the ground at least 400 thousand tons of gold and two and a half million tons of silver. And if you dig up and melt all these treasures, then for every living Russian you will have a gold ingot weighing about 3 kilograms and a silver bar weighing as much as 18 kilograms! At the same time, a considerable share in these ingots will consist of treasures buried in due time by Stepan Razin.
… As soon as the flood subsides, and the Volga returns to its banks, teenagers from the villages of the Altyn region in Chuvashia gather on the road washed out by water, hoping to find ancient gold coins that the water brings here every spring. Adults say that they have washed away another of the Razin treasures, of which there are a great many on the Volga.
The history of the chieftain's treasures begins from the time of his Persian campaign, undertaken in 1667-1669. In Persia, Razin's detachment awaited truly fabulous wealth. The removed squad devastated the shah's palaces and warehouses of Persian merchants, “robbed to the skin” of the houses of the local rich.
Subsequently, the Razins took and plundered Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan.
Thinking about the further existence of his "mob", Razin stuffed secret caves, secret passages and even old so-called "damaged" barrels of cannons with stolen gold and jewels, which he then buried on the banks of the Volga.
According to one of the popular legends, the treasures of the rebellious chieftain are hidden in the ground on a "human head" or "several heads". To get them, the treasure hunter must destroy the "conspired" number of people, and then he will get the treasure without much difficulty. Another legend says: “He buried a lot of treasures - he buried his treasury, but all those treasures were charmed. There were many hunters to take them, but no one can boast of luck - Razin treasures are not given. Either the unlucky treasure hunter will be thrown away by the wind for several miles, or the treasure will appear, and it will go deep into the ground, and if you dig, don't dig - you won't get to the bottom. Razin's treasures are guarded by devils, and those treasures are enchanted on … heads."
According to legend, the largest treasure of Razin is hidden near the village of Shatrashany, Buinsk district, Simbirsk province. Near the village, across the river, stretches an earthen rampart, in this rampart a cave was dug. In the depths of the cave, behind an iron door, forty poods of gold and chests with pearls are kept. There is a belief that if you begin to take out this treasure, then a weak woman's voice is heard from under the ground: “Do not try hard, servant of God, to raise the treasury with your strength! Only with the help of the tear-grass can this be done."
Sometimes the chieftain was cunning, he buried treasure-stands. It is very simple to find such a treasure, but it is not divided equally, and relatives and friends, tempted with treasures, killed each other, and meanwhile the treasure went into the ground again.
In 1914, in Tsaritsyn at the Trinity Church, a mountain fell four meters deep. At the bottom were coffins and skeletons (apparently, "charmed" under several human heads). The cache was full of gold coins and jewelry. They began to find out how the gold got here. And it turned out that a long tunnel was dug from the hiding place under the ground, which led to the pier on the Volga, where Razin's boats sailed with the loot.
Another Razin treasure appeared to people during the Great Patriotic War. Captain 1st Rank G. I. Bessonov said that during the winter battles in the Stalingrad region the Volga bank crumbled, as a result of which several old cast-iron cannons were exposed.
The muzzle of one of the cannons, heavily rusted, chipped off, and gold bracelets, earrings, pearls, rings, silver and gold objects spilled out of it down the slope, which, of course, quickly went from hand to hand. The soldiers tried to remove the guns from the frozen ground, but the task turned out to be impossible: the area was densely shot by the enemy. And then the offensive began, and there was no time to think about the treasure.
Almost three and a half centuries have passed since the time when the daring chieftain frolicked with his gang on the Don and Volga. And they are still looking for treasures. Excavations and searches are conducted both on a scientific basis and independently. "Black" treasure hunters, undoubtedly, find something. But, if scientists transfer their finds to historical and archaeological museums, then the "darkies" of their discoveries, of course, do not show, not wanting to be content with the percentage of the value of the treasure prescribed by law …
These include various kinds of predictions, prophecies and fortune-telling. Despite the fact that a huge part of this kind of information comes from people who only consider themselves clairvoyants, but are not, and the fact that the prophets also have punctures, this possibility must be taken seriously.
The curse of Napoleon's golden train
Treasures plundered by Napoleon in Moscow are no less interesting for treasure hunters. The invaders then dragged everything that came to hand. One of the French generals recalled: "Napoleon ordered to take away the diamonds, pearls, gold and silver that were in the churches." He even ordered to remove the gilded cross from the Cathedral of Ivan the Great. The gilded eagles were also removed from the towers of the Moscow Kremlin.
Napoleon ordered all the loot to be loaded onto twenty-five carts, to which he assigned reinforced guards.
During the inglorious retreat along the Smolensk highway, the "Moscow booty" became a burden, and on November 22, 1812, Napoleon issued an order: "All the weights carried in the train must be destroyed (drowned in a nearby lake), the guard of the train must be returned to his regiment, and all the horses must be returned. into the guards artillery, so as not to throw a single cannon."
Then there was a rumor that Napoleon chose Lake Semlevskoe as a cache for valuables, which lay slightly away from the path along which the French retreated.
The Semlevskaya legend has been haunted by the treasure hunters for many years. Immediately after the expulsion of the French from the Russian land, the Smolensk landowner Pletneva tried to find the legendary treasure, but the waters of the lake did not want to share the gold with the landowner.
The search for a gold convoy was organized for the second time in 70? x years of the XIX century by the landowner Lyarsky, and again the wagon train was not found. The lake was huge: three hundred meters long and one hundred meters wide!
In February 1979, a large scientific expedition arrived at Lake Semlevskoe. It was headed by Stanislav Stanislavovich Prapor, a scientist from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, an experienced submariner. A power line was stretched to the lake. We connected a suction pump to pump out the silt, which had covered the bottom with a thick layer over a century and a half.
Chemical analysis of samples of lake water showed that it contains tens of times more gold and silver than the water of other surrounding lakes. Therefore, they got down to business with passion. The work had to be carried out at 30-40 degrees of frost.
How many ice holes were cut in the lake, how many divers plunged into lead water, how many they had to go along the bottom, lifting numerous metal, but by no means gold objects to the surface. It's all in vain. The mystery, born of the November days of 1812, has remained a mystery.
However, residents of the Kholm-Zhirkovsky district of the Smolensk region are sure that there has never been a Napoleonic treasure in the lake. And that he was buried by the French near the village of Gorodnya. The ancestors of the current inhabitants of this village repeatedly tried to get to gold, but each time something got in the way.
For example, there was such a case. Somewhere local men learned that the Napoleonic treasure was buried at the edge of a grove outside the village. They dug a hole there and suddenly they looked - the village was on fire! They threw down their shovels and rushed to help their own. When they came running, lo and behold, the village did not burn at all. We returned again to the grove. And the hole dug disappeared, as if it had not existed at all. And the shovels were gone. After that incident, a rumor spread among the locals that, they say, the treasure was charmed, and therefore it is not given into the hands to this day. But, by the way, these rumors do not bother visiting treasure seekers, and today the entire Kholm-Zhirkovsky district has been dug up and down.
According to a number of leading Russian ufologists, there are many civilizations in space that are rather indifferent to events on Earth. They do not have any feelings or interest in the Earth, considering our area to be the backwater of the universe. Among them there are many communities that are pessimistic about the chances of human development, seeing people as incorrigible and unsuitable for training. They are sure that over the course of millennia, humanity has not only not made progress for the better, but also vice versa - is degrading. Both spiritually and mentally.
Seven coffins of the royal family's treasures
Two years ago, the famous American writer and journalist Patti Barham reported that the jewels of the last Russian emperor were buried in the Gobi Desert! This sensation could have been neglected if there were not so many mysteries around the treasures of Nicholas II and his family, which historians have not been able to solve to this day.
As noted by The Los Angeles Times, "diamonds, Faberge eggs, crowns and diadems of Russian emperors, gem-instructed gold frames, pearl, ruby, sapphire and diamond necklaces are hidden in seven coffins in a 7 x 10-foot pit in the middle of the Mongolian deserts."
According to Barchem, all these treasures were buried on October 3, 1917 by her stepfather - the Russian prince Prince George Meskhi-Gleboff (Georgy Glebov), who served at the court of Nicholas II as an assistant to the Tsar's treasurer and then emigrated to the United States.
Here he married his mother, Patty Barham, the heiress of the gold mines. According to the writer, shortly before his death in 1960, her stepfather told her that in the days of the February coup of 1917, which resulted in the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the subsequent transfer of supreme power in the country to the Provisional Government, Queen Alexandra instructed him to take the personal jewelry of the Romanovs to the Chinese Bank in Pekin.
The valuables were hidden in seven coffins, and two of them contained the dead bodies of children who were being transported to China for burial. In the Gobi desert, robbers attacked the caravan. The soldiers repulsed the onslaught, but Meskhi-Gleboff decided not to risk further and bury the treasure on the spot.
After this incredible confession, his stepfather handed Patty a sealed envelope with a handwritten map, which accurately indicated the location of the treasure, but asked him not to do anything until the Russian government acknowledged the execution of the Romanov family and arranged an official funeral for the murdered. However, the map soon mysteriously disappeared, but Barham swears that he remembered the coordinates of the treasure.
At first, the writer did not particularly believe in the secret entrusted to her by the former assistant to the tsarist treasurer. She believed in the treasure only after she became closely acquainted with Rasputin's daughter, with whom she wrote a book about her father. Maria Grigorievna told Patti that the queen in her presence really instructed Georgy Glebov to take the treasures to Beijing.
Barham is confident, reports The Los Angeles Times, that she will be able to find the right place from a bird's eye view, since her stepfather's map exactly matched the topographic map of Mongolia from 1912.