- Dirk Marinus wrote:
- there still seems to be talk that part of the jewels were buried in Virginia (USA) and to date has not been discovered.
Coincidentally Virginia is also the location of a library containing a book which throws light on the mystery surrounding the fate of some items from Алмазный фонд (Almazny Fond) or the Diamond Fund, the collective name for the Russian crown jewels housed in the Kremlin. The book supposedly dating from 1922 shows photographs of the collection which includes items missing from a later official inventory published in 1925. That fact alone might raise doubts about the authenticity of the book or else suggests that items have indeed gone missing:
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Russian Crown JewelsPart of the Diamond Fund also apparently spent over a quarter of a century in Ireland, part of that time bricked up in the fireplace of a Dublin townhouse:
How the Russian crown jewels went from the Romanovs to Harry Boland's family home in DublinSome items however still remain unaccounted for.