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Black Sea Mystery
Author: Natasha Beskhlebnaya
Translator: Paul E. Richardson
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2011
Department: Revolution
Page: 38 ( 6) pages
Summary: Legend has it that a British frigate which sunk off Balaclava during a freak storm was loaded down with millions in gold for troops fighting in the Crimean War. The hunt for the mysterious treasure spanned more than a century, and gave birth to a venerated institution.
This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2011 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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Weblinks related to this story:
- Leonid Tishkov's Blog This post is about the statue for EPRON (in Russian, of course)
- The Full Story of the Prince In Russian. A very exhaustive look at the legend of the Black Prince.
- The Lestroygians is one of the works in this 1917 translation of Kuprin's work.
- Times Article Contemporaneous London Times article on the storm in the Black Sea and the sinking of the Prince.