What Happened to the Romanov Jewels Sewn Into Clothes
In this case it was the US. The Great Imperial Crown made in 1762 for Catherine the Great contains 4936 diamonds gleaming alongside great white pearls. Morbid Monday Mad Monks Bullet Proof Corsets Atlas Obscura This needle box used by the immediate Romanov family holds the Collective Power of all of the Romanov Jewels. . Some of the jewels themselves were for a time stored inside of this. The first entry describes a diamond brooch 100 carats valued at 5868000 in 2002 currency. Alexandra Romanov must have had a hint at what was coming and before their execution she had the girls sew jewels into their clothes to potentially finance a rescue. On the night of their deaths perhaps believing rescue was imminent the girls dressed in their special clothing which in the end only prolonged their gruesome fate. Then in New York customs officers detained two visitors with jewels worth 350 thousand rubles that belonged to Grand Duchess...
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