Russian gold

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Identifikator:: 1772009490

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-156190

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Russian gold

Place of publication:: [New York]

Publisher:: Amtorg Trading Corporation, Information Department

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 72 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The Russian Gold Reserve before and during the World and Civil Wars (1883-1921)

Collection:: Economics Books

which he needed, and they yielded only after intervention of the representatives of the foreign powers and under pressure of Gen- eral Syrovoy. At that time the line was blocked to such an extent that it could be used for only two trains daily. Four of Admiral Kolchak’s trains could not, therefore, advance beyond Krasnoyarsk and two only, that on which the Admiral was traveling and the one carrying the gold, could reach Nijneudinsk. At the latter station the events took place which are generally known. Admiral Kol- chak left his train and the gold train, relying upon General Janin’s promise, which was conveyed to him through the Czechs, to the effect that he would be assured unhindered passage to Vladivostok with the Czech detachment. Admiral Kolchak, accompanied by 28 persons of his retinue and by the officers of his guard, boarded a car, which was then attached to the train of the 6th Czech Regiment. That train, flying the flags of the Allies, went from Nijneudinsk to Irkutsk. There the Czech guard was recalled, and the Admiral was handed over to the Socialists. In spite of all exhortations of his ministers, the Admiral had previously refused to part from the gold train and to ship the gold to Irkutsk. He had thus delayed his own departure to the East. Had it not been for this circumstance, he certainly would have reached Irkutsk before the Socialist coup of December 4, and his ultimate fate would probably have been different. However, it would not be fair to blame the Admiral for having been so anxious to keep the gold under his own control. Since the fall of Omsk his authority had been constantly threatened by uprisings in various cities. Ship- ping the gold to Irkutsk, which was regarded as the main center of the Socialists-Revolutionists, would have meant creating parti- cularly favorable conditions for the revolutionary movement and for the constitution of a new government, with that gold as the mainstay of its authority. From the time that the gold train was left at Nijneudinsk, it is impossible to ascertain its fate with the same exactitude. All responsibility for its protection was borne by the Czecho-Slovaks. Under the terms of the armistice concluded between the Bolsheviki and the Czechs at the end of January, 1920, the gold was turned over to the representatives of the Bolsheviki. That had been made an absolute condition of allowing the Czech troops unhindered pas- sage eastward. RUMANIAN GoLD In December 1916, when the Rumanian capital was menaced by the German advance, the Rumanian Government entered into an 2? 1

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