After the 1917 revolution, Russia's new rulers debated what to do with the crown jewels. This 1925 photo shows the collection. However, a 1922 album at the U.S. Geological Survey includes photos ...

Russian history expert J. Arch Getty, a UCLA professor, wonders why the czarina would have sent the crown jewels to China by way of the Gobi Desert instead of to Europe.

The Russian Crown Jewels were for a period hidden in one family’s house in Dublin, not long after the 1916 Easter Rising. Kathleen Boland's three brothers - Harry, Gearoid, ...

European and U. S. jewelers have resolutely refused to buy sentiment, have mostly returned from Russia emptyhanded. It is well-known that the sale of the Russian Crown Jewels has been held up on ...

The Russian Crown Jewels were a collection of crowns, scepters, orbs, swords, rings, earrings, necklaces, and other items that belonged to the tsars and tsarinas of Russia.