History Shorts
The Lost Romanov Fortune
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When Tsar Nicholas II and his family were killed in 1918, the Romanovs had been associated with staggering wealth accumulated over centuries of imperial rule.
The Bolsheviks seized the obvious treasures: palaces, artwork, imperial collections, and crown property.
But the Romanovs also possessed personal assets—and tracing what happened to money held outside Russia became far more…