Gold of Kolchak. Budnitsky O.V.

The fate of the “Kolchak gold” - parts of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire, which fell into the hands of the White in 1918 - one of the most famous and exciting mysteries of Russian history of the 20th century. Based on the materials of the American, British and Russian archives, the historian Oleg Budnitsky managed to allow this riddle and trace the movement of money proceeds from the sale of gold, which were spent until the end of the 1950s.

The meaning of such a historical “investigation” is not only to put an end to the delayed debate about the fate of “Kolchak gold”. This plot serves as a rod on which the problems of the history of the White movement and its foreign financing, the relationships of the White and their allies, the Russian “diplomacy in exile”, Russian emigration and others are “strung”. Ultimately, this is another attempt to answer the key question of the Russian history of the 20th century: why the Reds and not white defeated in the civil war.

Oleg Budnitsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of the Second World War and its consequences to the Higher School of Economics, Member of the European Academy; A specialist in the field of Russian history of the second half of the XIX-XX centuries.