Where did the gold of the royal family go?
By the beginning of the First World War, the Russian Empire possessed the world's largest gold reserve, estimated at 1 billion 695 million rubles (1311 tons of gold, more than 60 billion dollars at the rate of the 2000s). The fate of most of the gold reserves of tsarist Russia is still unknown ("Kolchak's gold"). It was approximately 490 tons of pure gold bullion and coins worth 650 million. According to one version, it was stolen by the Czechoslovak corps, on the other - it was hidden by the order of Kolchak himself, on the third - the funds settled in European banks.
Where did the Templars' gold go?
The untold treasures of the Templars are still legendary. According to the historian Lozinsky, the chief treasurer of the order was the chief treasurer of France, and the greatest debtor of the order was the King of France Philip IV the Beautiful. After the trial of the Templars, he discovered that there were not so many jewels and gold in the treasuries. Where the Templar gold is gone is a mystery. It is known that a part of the accumulated treasures the surviving Templars were transported on ships, but to a certain extent it is not known. If you believe the legends, the gold of the Knights Templar was in Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia) - the territory of modern Canada. It is believed that part of it was transported to the Canadian Island of Oak (Oak Island), where the descendants of the knights of the temple hid it in a cache with numerous traps.
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