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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:32 |
An American claims the famed
Russian Romanov treasures were buried in Mongolia and she hopes to dig
them up.
Eighty-year-old socialite Patte
Barham claims her stepfather, Prince George Meskhi-Gleboff, buried the
jewels in Mongolia in 1917.
Meskhi-Gleboff was an assistant
to the Russian czar’s treasurer and told his daughter that Czar Nikolay
II’s wife, Empress Aleksandra, instructed him to flee with the jewels
ahead of the Russian Bolsheviks.
The jewels reportedly include
the imperial Russian crowns and tiaras, Faberge eggs and opera-length
strands of pearls, rubies, sapphires and diamonds.
While fleeing through Mongolia,
Meskhi-Gleboff is believed to have buried the jewels in the Gobi Desert.
Barham recently said that her stepfather had a map showing the location
of the treasure. However, following his death the map disappeared.
Barham says, though, that she
knows the exact location of where the treasure was buried.
If she locates the treasure,
she said she would return it to the Russian government.
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There was an article about Romanov jewels being found in plastic bags hidden under dirt in a cellar for 20 years so i do believe that they are buried and hidden from the world right now and some day they will be uncovered I hope in my life time!