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Black Market Bolsheviks and The Tsar’s Golden Eggs

Black Market Bolsheviks and The Tsar’s Golden Eggs

著者： Don Swann II
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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 PetDon Swann II ノンフィクション犯罪
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  • The Missing Seven

    The Missing Seven
    2026/08/17

    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 why most treasure leads go nowhere.

    The Birth Certificate: 50 eggs made, 43 accounted for, 7 gone since the revolution.

    True crime history, forensic gemology, real obsession.
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    29 分
  • Armand Hammer, Stalin's Favorite Capitalist

    Armand Hammer, Stalin's Favorite Capitalist
    2026/08/17

    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 meant nothing, and the intelligence file that never closed.

    The Birth Certificate: 1921, Moscow, a doctor who never practiced medicine again.

    True crime history, forensic detail, an American original.
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    32 分
  • The Smuggler's Fleet

    The Smuggler's Fleet
    2026/08/17

    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 Litvinov kept under his pillow.

    The Birth Certificate: 1921, the Gulf of Finland, midnight.

    True crime history, maritime tradecraft, real consequences.
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    32 分
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