Золото Колчака

M. : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022.

Budnitskii O.

The fate of "Kolchak's gold" - part of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire, which ended up in the hands of the Whites in 1918 - is one of the most famous and exciting mysteries of Russian history of the 20th century. Based on materials from American, British and Russian archives, the author of the book offered to the attention of readers managed to solve this riddle and trace the history of the 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 protracted debate about the fate of "Kolchak's gold". The history of "Kolchak's gold" serves as a core on which the problems of the history of the White movement and its foreign financing, relations between Whites and allies, Russian "diplomacy in exile", Russian emigration. Ultimately, this is another attempt to answer the key question of Russian history of the twentieth century - why did the Reds win the Civil War, and not the Whites?

Keywords: Russian Civil War, золото Колчака, Гражданская война в России 1918-1920, Kolchak's Gold