Black Market Bolsheviks and The Tsar’s Golden Eggs
Where did the Romanov treasures go after the Russian Revolution? Welcome to Black Market Bolsheviks & The Tsar’s Golden Eggs, an investigative true crime and dark history podcast exploring history’s greatest royal liquidation. In July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family were executed in Yekaterinburg, leaving behind 18 pounds of blood-stained diamonds sewn into their corsets. Desperate for hard currency, foreign weapons, and grain, Vladimir Lenin and the Soviet regime created Gokhran—a secret Moscow vault packed with gold, rubies, and the legendary Fabergé Easter Eggs crafted by Pet
Episodes
Episode 7: The Missing Seven
A scrap dealer nearly melted a $33 million imperial treasure for spare change. Six more Fabergé eggs are still missing, maybe forever. Black Market Bolsheviks hunts the seven lost Imperial Easter Eggs, and the forgery market built on desperate hope.
What You'll Discover: the exiled refugee who single-handedly rebuilt the Fabergé registry from memory, the forensic science used to catch modern fakes, and wh...
Episode 3: Armand Hammer, Stalin's Favorite Capitalist
A father's prison sentence. A nation's famine. One American turned both into a sixty-year fortune. Black Market Bolsheviks profiles Armand Hammer, the "Doctor" who left famine relief a capitalist, blending real looted treasure with reproductions no one could prove weren't real.
What You'll Discover: the pencil factory hiding in plain sight, the guaranteed imperial label that mean...
Melted church silver. Forged diplomatic seals. A gunrunner who became a foreign minister. Black Market Bolsheviks follows Maxim Litvinov's Baltic smuggling fleet, the operation that funded a broke revolution and became the blueprint for Soviet intelligence tradecraft for decades after.
What You'll Discover: the foundry that erased a church's history, the loophole that turned crates into untouchable diplomatic pouches, and the pistol...
A crown fit for a bride. A gavel that didn't care whose blood paid for it. In 1927, Christie's London auctioned 124 lots of Romanov jewels seized by the Bolsheviks, while exiled Russians watched their own family history sell for pennies on the pound.
What You'll Discover: the real fate of the Romanov Nuptial Crown, the dealer who profited laundering stolen royal treasure, and a smuggling legend that isn't quite true.
The Birth Certif...
"Bullets bounced off the Grand Duchesses. What the executioners didn’t know was that 18 pounds of royal diamonds were sewn into their corsets."
In July 1918, the execution of the Romanov family in a Yekaterinburg cellar launched the largest state-sponsored art heist in modern history. Facing economic collapse, famine, and civil war, Vladimir Lenin created Gokhran—a secret state depository crammed floor-to-ceiling with st...
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