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russian empire as gold reserves is told to be still on the lake bed amidst corpses left of old railway cause. some claim it lies and siberian ministry's. others say it is hidden away in case of the country's far east even smell the czech republic. what happened to the bulk of the russian empires gold reserves which went missing in the late ninety's is one of the most ensuring myths of russian history if. by cal is not the only place linked to the mystery of the russian empire as gold was of foreclosed on the bed of the world's deepest lake will you be the tip of the iceberg in the past century trainloads of gold went missing across the country the

precious payloads travelled with east leaving a multitude of secrets and rudeness in their wake. because it is a city eight hundred kilometers east of most. most of the russian empires gold reserve set out on a moment journey from this old city nearly a hundred years ago. the bolsheviks and seized power in russia often by nine hundred seventeen revolution the civil war was still raging and at that time there was fighting on the streets between the morning just wants movement and the bolshevik read all the power in the city changed hands many times this photo was taken in early nine hundred eighteen. the red army corps cavalry is marching victoriously along the streets of. the bolsheviks seize this building as a matter of priority at the time it was the king of the national bank.

nearly ninety years have passed since then but today too there is a bank behind the stores according to the bank's accounts there was some one thousand two hundred eighty tons of valuables here in the one nine hundred eighteen including gold platinum and silva today the gold alone would be worth more than twenty six billion dollars. the time that russian gold reserve was one of the world's largest if not the largest heel essay had not yet accumulated because gold reserves it has now. transport. such a bulky and heavy called was quite a problem to most of its wasted no time laying trim tracks leading to the bank building the idea was to use trams to take the gold to the river pier this old picture shows. their street cars keep on the footpath because the rest of the

pavement is occupied by tracks the could of least directly to the banks main entrance to the gold was to have been removed from the bike on the fifth month hundred eighty. one prevented people palatial dion's to the question is contained in the archive of all to live in professor of history at university he is drawing the witness reports to reconstruct that day's events almost in full could they be attributed to. one of the eyewitnesses who writes that outrageous brought team self-worth into the beast matilde because on bank only in the evening of august the fifth they were about to start removing valuables from the bank when the city was shelled by the enemy. when four trucks and shipped them and fifty armed red army men back to the bank they started moving gold out despite the shelling but they could take out only a hundred crates with gold worth six million roubles and ninety five million rubles

worth of my bank notes. the point zero million units of the so-called czechoslovak legion entered. with the seventh one thousand nine hundred eighteen the. capital center telegram to only headquarters of the he visited the bank it said the trophies beyond all calculation we have seized russia's gold was the whites were in to repeat the bolsheviks mistake they made swift arrangements for their valuables to be taken out of to a safe distance from the front line. here in this yard they brought cards to this backyard that. everybody capable of lifting heavy weights help shift those enormous loads. the goal was taken to the pool by trams and translated by the bolsheviks but they never have the opportunity

to use them because it was guarded by the russian soldiers although legionnaires from the czech and slovak cool with the first seize the bank. puzzle could have is a military historian as well as the president of the czechoslovak legionnaires memorial society but this is the standard uniform of the russian army worn cheering world war one this one is the uniform of the service men of the chant brigade as can be seen from the accrington shorter straps the czech brigade was formed in the summer of nine hundred fourteen and became good basis for the. russian school. during world war one russian emperor nicholas the second backfill idea of forming a military consisting of chicks and slovaks living in russia the legion is what to fight on the side of the russian army against the straight hungry and germany immediately after the nine hundred seventeen revolution the czech slovak legion gave support to the point movement in russia against the bolsheviks but it was

equally jeanette's wanted was to get back to their home country these pictures from the colors of the military institute in prague they tell the story of the czechoslovak legions journey by rail from samoa to volleyball stuck in the country's east the gold train follows the same route. just a lot actually koslow x. fought in a special sector of the front porch when admiral cole chuck seized power they took a neutral position and now they wanted to achieve their initial goal the aim was to get to have lady talk with the intention of returning to europe this means that nobody but man roll call charke had access to the gold reserve. the n.t. based should be government formed in siberia in living but now it's in a team named alexander culture russia's head of state in supreme commander in chief

of the poem forces of the whites movement culture took control of most of the gold the whites had seems to because. the bullshit culture offensive in the summer of ninety nine team forced culture expo me to retreat eastwards. when the train load of gold so tell us a little journey through siberia called check this in his own personal courage mix of the steam locomotive units of the czech slovak legion made sure the train had free passage throughout the route of the troy they were in control of the entire late to translate period railway. professor of history prologues military institute this truce the route of the gold train based on military reports and accounts by officers of the czech slovak legion blocks in one thousand twenty officials from the ministry of finance of former sars to russia

were constantly with the russian gold reserve travelling from cars and to here could. this means they were in control of the gold in one way or another you know of course there is much speculation about whether or not some of it was stolen from . the golden train called the long distance by nine hundred twenty the gold was taken from his a to some lower this. was placed on the train them and sent from homes to go train to give cooks in the east of the country so we need to train station it was discovered that a huge amount of the gold was missing by that time and culture exporters to go on to the gold trade was handed over to the chicken slovak legionnaires. tin it is a small station the train loaded with gold came here nearly ninety years ago so the team crates of bullion were found to be missing on january the twelfth month

hundred twenty eight days of the legionnaires began guarding the train. this theft was reported by nature koslow x. because the russian guards had disappeared so there was no one else who could report their theft some of the treasures had also disappeared it was discovered early in the morning by the chief khosla max standing guard. when they approached the carriage to find out what had happened they saw that the doors had been broken and that something was missing inside. this document refutes what historian powell cutrone claims the report states so the russian by the name of should call in a beijing official by the name of keselowski discovered the absence of two seals on one of the carriages they also discovered that thirteen crates of gold were missing the report stresses that the carriages were in good order both inside and outside

the documents wrists in the old clothes approx institute of military history. prague ligia bank was in this building years ago it was founded by the men of the czech slovak cool after their return from russia in the one nine hundred twenty it was the first bank of the newly independent czech state. its manual i'm sure thirteen crates wouldn't have made much difference today to cost the american economy what's really helped it was the fact that issued its own currency. the train with what was left of the russian emperors gold continue to wait east to be or could come to that station in short crates which disappeared without a trace the next stop on the gold trains route would prove fatal for cultural.

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in conspicuous real way hope has a permanent place in the history of the gold of the russian empire today the station is called it a coup too but in general no one hundred twenty it bore the name. it was here that the offices of the czechoslovak legion arrested their russian ally admiral called check on this unremarkable platform he and his colleagues were locked up in this small house and were then handed over to the revolutionaries in this way they were given safe passage to a port of lot of stock so they could sail home. to their channel slovaks surrendered culture to centrist revolutionaries in their coats they wanted to have them put on trial. with the arrival of the bolsheviks they deposed the centrists arrested culture and executed him. with. having played their role to excuse him of every culture the chief slovak dejan is

resumed the journey in the direction of the full blooded. nel the question is where did the gold go and they looking for it in lake baikal. this story and alexander to the think oh even. i lived in the buckle area holroyd so. they are sure the quite a sizable. gold ended up in the lake off to one of the trains crushed that train was moving along the railway. train was it the way it was a carry go to according to alexander theory the all says lowly in a contract made between the czech slovak engine is and the bolsheviks cutin agreement. to the kitchen agreement half of russia's gold

reserve villagers seized from culture shock was to be handed over to the bolsheviks while legionnaires kept the other half as a result russia acquired thirteen carriages. seventeen. to chick historians disagrees with the theory of his russian counterpart to truce agreement was signed at the station as a result of the truce the russian gold reserve was handed over to the balsa big government led by lenin. that the treasure was in the state that it had been while in call chocks custody with the exception of the thirteen crete's that and disappearing and station. to the link and even called the distance several times before one hundred twenty kilometers

it's a flight. locomotive they are looking for evidence that the golden train controlled by the chicks did indeed crash after the agreement had been signed the law of x. headed on eastwards with a gold quite common peanut however it turned out lennon had sent a telegram ahead to local followers. at the last moment and you know his message was blunt blow up the tunnels and bridges and care. the cracks were not a single gram of the gold was to be allowed to go any further east. to prove by color will weigh as one of the world's most dangerous routes and one saw it there was sheer cliffs lake baikal is on the other. there are frequent broke slides here this enormous piece of rock sticking out of the lake might have been what caused the crash. the driver of that steam locomotive told event

of about it when he was still young. according to the driver of the road fragment crashed into the train just when the locomotive that into the tunnel. just some of the train cars serino on the tracks like others fell in the direction of by call . one of the carriages was on the bank after being ripped apart crates were taken out of it. in the summer of two thousand and two the linker and other scientists still said that the sent to the bed of late i called on board amid deep sea submersible from here as a tip from one thousand four hundred meters they found a great carriages and a host of objects resembling crates this picture shows them in great detail chances of all of those crates were filled with gold. yes don their stores both under friend reports indicate that several trays of carry the gold the

location of the carriages elemental crates that were so heavy that they couldn't be moved coincides with a crash site because. people in submersibles the only been able to examine the lake bed dragging up heavy objects are an altogether different vessel yes a bus stop it's if the search for a cold truck's gold is put on a strictly scientific basis success may be achieved. in the east bound train carrying the gold reserve by pulse the siberian city however is in this building that a trace of the so-called siberian share of culture x. gold was found in nine hundred ninety one. the building used to house the local branch of the soviet k.g.b. today it belongs to russia's federal security service back then alexander patrician

of the k.g.b. was looking through secret stating from the civil war when he came across a document pertaining to the nine hundred twenty s. it contained a description of the medal stand before culture came to power the new medals the inscription liberation of siberia. knew the medals had already been stamped more than maps got so they were made of precious metals he orders them to be added to his gold reserves although most of that is to say the russians called reserve. he said it should be kept in church basements intel other additions included church owner months and possibly valuables belonging to the family a former russian emperor. there are two cases between moscow and to balls to this is a historical russian city it was founded in the sixteenth century and it used to be the capital of siberia with the with siberian ocean of culture x.

gold kept away did it end. there are many streets and churches around to poles according to alexander patricians theory the siberian portion of culture gold was hidden in one of them the street is several kilometers from tobolsk during the civil war. of tobolsk one of his residence is here. with some of the church valuables and valuables and belonging to the siberian white movement were kept here in the monastery it is now being restored look what it feels like you're just going to see you know you find a lot of metal yes we have lots of but. i find this quite intriguing and there is a lot of metal here because insurgents taking part in the one nine hundred twenty one peasant revolt were executed here by this wall one finds gold jam and human

bones here all in one place which was. cool alexander protrusion of the federal security service now retired has spent a good deal of time in search of culture x. gold his job gave him access to secret transcripts of interrogations relating to archbishop of tobolsk according to his testimony when the rebel army was perching to nine hundred nineteen culture and ordered the siberian gold be evacuated immediately. in october one thousand nine hundred. one load up from the spear onto a steam ship called the pattern yak. early winter and there was alton cold weather compelled the convoy to hold on near the village of turner no close to sir good. course a lot of the valuable credits and deep in the woods it is not known where the cargo was left those treasures including the prices liberation of siberia metals have not

yet been found. for people to go in and train with is still the translight period railway truthdig puts the russians railways conferred at the port by the full stop in the country's east and situated no one thousand columbus away from. the trancelike area the wait ten minutes in the city one theory has it that russia's gold is a resource city of the coal tracks execution. this picture shows czechoslovak legionnaires waiting for the turn to him and ships in the pool to fly to full stop snitching to transport ships took some seventy thousand officers and men of the czech slovak to teach and to europe. members of the army corps were cheering no more arms industry more townships only personal

belongings. even they were not allowed to exceed a certain weight limit this seems to suggest that there was very little room in those ships therefore i cannot honestly believe that the concept of secure itself on the railway cars would have been accommodated dear. this picture from the old cause of the military institution prologue shows legion is sitting on crates as they prepare for embarkation. and another photo shows large packages on the ships what's in them the want to be found. is easiest to treasure hunters in but it will stop all along the route of the gold train believe the part of kolchak's was is hit in some way here. see a game at yankee founder of the motor club began looking for the gold in two thousand and five after he met vic to shoot

a local visit to. promise to take sergei to a cave where he said he had found gold bullion with a coat of arms of the russian empire impulse to only. see again his friends received official papers insourcing them to do its completion work of the sort of the following so good then made arrangements for the expedition to go. put up with but there was a hillside waste at the signing of it with no use this analogy of a to dig up a stone after stone in the end because they excavator reached a flat surface made of stone it was easy to see that had been made by hand. well. it seems we can get in there now if we could find gold. only she. told me that he had seen stacks of guild billion credit union and paintings in teams and even some flags. here seemed those were paintings because the tubes were

quite on. tour but he touched nothing for fear of triggering a blast of. team found nothing after two months of work later other treasure hunters literally collapse the cave to the ground vic to shoot more of the man who found the cave in the first place died under mysterious circumstances this raises the suggestion that he may indeed have found something valuable but whether that was part of the russian empire his gold reserve is still unknown. almost appears through looking for gold charts gold is something of a hobby for a motor club member some evidence suggest that it is here in the premarket territory i mean although screech in our nature. we are going to know more excavation work in the near future. twenty the bolsheviks but some of the gold whites have taken from the state banks

broach. in that system with the lights when all is said and it is a significant fact that the gold returned to this building after it siberian journey so it took several days to bring it here by trams and motivate comes in october at nine hundred twenty the gold reserve was sent to moscow for printing must. in the early twentieth century trains carrying crosses the goal of the russian empire which was the country. every now and salaciously culture treasure. up again with. many living along the route to go for it and many other parts of russia claimed they know where the gold bullion is to. sit back. these treasure hunts is a term to go on with. the mystery of the girl's disappearance

has remained unsold in media hundred years. it.