The mystery of the Thar's 500 tons of gold

Lake Baikal triggered the search for the Tsarist Admiral Cossack who led a troop to escort an armored train from Omsk to retreat along the Great Siberian Railway to the northeastern border of China on November 13, 1919. According to informed sources, the heavily guarded train was loaded with 500 tons of gold that the Tsar had seized from the people.

When the troops arrived at the shores of Lake Baikal in January 1920, the railroad had been destroyed and was impassable. The Cossacks had to order the troops to cross Lake Baikal by sled instead and head for the Chinese border.

Amid a bone-chilling blizzard, 500 tons of gold were loaded onto the sleds. In early March, cracks appeared in the ice on Lake Baikal. It is said that the Cossack troops and 500 tons of gold all sank to the bottom of the lake where the water was more than 100 meters deep.

In 1938, a Tsarist officer living in the United States, Slav K. Bekdanov, became public. Bogdanov made his identity public and declared: "The tsar's treasure did not sink in Lake Baikal, but was transferred away long before the arrival of the army in Irkutsk and was secretly buried long ago."

He said that at that time he directed the operation to bury the gold. After transferring the gold, it was buried in the basement of a church that had collapsed. After the job was done, the rest of the people involved in the matter were executed on the spot. Thus, he became the only person who now knew the secret of the Tsar's gold treasure.

In 1959, Bekdanov returned to the Soviet Union and ran into John Smith, an American engineer he had met in California, in Magnitogorsk. Smith. Smith knew about Bekdanov's situation and suggested going together to the place where Bekdanov had buried the Tsar's gold. So they found the gold in the company of a young girl named Daniky, and they took only part of it.

Then, as they were driving the jeep and were about to pass through the Georgian border, suddenly a heavy hail of bullets swept in. Amidst the hail of bullets, Bekdanov was killed instantly, while Smith and Daniky left the car and the gold and fled in terror from the Soviet Union.

Now, the trail of the czar's gold was broken again. Since then, Smith and Danika, like the gold, have become a mystery that no one understands.

The mystery of the mysterious disappearance of 600 tons of Tsarist gold in China

After the October Revolution, the White Bandits seized the gold reserves of Tsarist Russia

　　After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Russian army was defeated on the battlefield.

After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Russian army was defeated on the battlefield. By 1915, the German army was approaching the Russian capital, Petrograd. For security reasons, the Tsar ordered the transfer of the country's gold reserves to the rear. Soon, about 600 tons of gold bars and coins were shipped to Kazan.

At the beginning of 1918, this gold had been stored in Kazan for three years. By this time, Soviet Russia had been established, but the domestic situation failed to stabilize. in March 1918, Soviet Russia signed the Brest Peace Treaty with Germany and withdrew from the First World War. The Allied Powers, such as Britain, France, the United States, and Japan, were terrified of this socialist revolution in Russia. On the pretext that Russia was alone in making peace, they sent their troops to interfere in Soviet Russia, and the counter-revolutionary forces in Russia took advantage of the situation.

　　In August 1918, Petrov, a White bandit officer, led a raid on Kazan and seized the gold.

After learning of the lost gold, the Red Army quickly attacked Petrov's troops. To keep the gold, Petrov handed it over to Gorchak, the leader of the White bandit army. At that time, Gorchak was one of the largest White bandit leaders in Russia. He called himself the "Supreme Governor of Russia" and was recognized and supported by the West and Japan.

　　After receiving the gold, Gorchak was overjoyed and quickly transferred it to his nest in Omsk, where according to the records left at that time, the gold amounted to 583 tons. However, the "Supreme Governor of Russia" could not stop the advance of the Red Army. Soon, the Red Army advanced to the vicinity of Omsk. At this time, the Japanese heard the news about the gold and proposed to Gorchak that if Gorchak agreed to "protect the Russian gold", the Japanese would send troops to repel the Red Army, but Gorchak refused the Japanese "goodwill". On November 14, the Red Army captured Omsk, but according to the records, the Red Army found only a few tons of gold in the city. So, where did the rest of the gold go?

The Japanese got 63 boxes of gold when the White Bandits retreated into China

It turned out that a few hours before the Red Army occupied Omsk, Gorchak and Petrov fled to Irkutsk by train, which was still loaded with 63 boxes of gold. Facing the Red Army's pursuit, the people on the train counted on exchanging gold bars for some food at the critical moment

or bullets. What they didn't expect was that just after the train arrived in Irkutsk, Gorchak was captured alive by the local Red Army, and Petrov and the train managed to escape, only to be stopped halfway by another Cossack white bandit army near Chita. The Cossacks tried to confiscate the gold, and the two sides almost fought, but finally, Petrov had to make a compromise and handed over 30 boxes of gold to the Cossacks, and the remaining 33 boxes were taken to Chita.

The mystery of the Tsar's 500 tons of gold

According to the British Daily Express, Daily Mail, and RIA Novosti, a Russian mini-submarine found suspected gold objects at the bottom of Lake Baikal, which may be the treasure of the Tsar worth tens of billions.

　　1600 tons of gold mysteriously disappeared

　　In November 1919, Alexander Gorchak, the former commander of the defeated Tsarist Russian fleet, fled to Siberia with the remnants of his forces, carrying 1,600 tons of gold allocated by the Tsar. The gold was packed in 28 armed escort train cars. However, due to the freezing weather, when the troops carrying the gold reached Lake Baikal, they were all wiped out in the snow and the gold treasure disappeared mysteriously from then on.

　　Although no one knows the whereabouts of the gold, one of the most widespread stories is that the 28 trains carrying the gold nuggets ran out of fuel and Gorchak had to order the Tsarist army to make several large sleds to pull the gold-carrying carriages through the snow and ice of Siberia. However, the extreme cold caused the Siberian horses pulling the sleighs to die one by one. When the journey reached Lake Baikal, the whole army was wiped out in the snow and wind. The treasure was eventually abandoned on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, and with the thawing of the water, it sink to the bottom of Lake Baikal together with the carriages.