After visiting most of the weapons hall, Ekaterina suddenly grabbed me and asked with a smile: "Richard, are you interested in going to the diamond hall to see it, but you have to buy another ticket, it is not included in the ticket price of the weapons hall." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then I was a little excited: "Diamond Pavilion? Are you referring to one of the top ten treasures of that world? ”

The top 10 treasures of the world are Tutankhamun's Mausoleum, the Jewels of the British Crown, the Jewels of the Lady of Araka, the Castle of Hearst, the Treasures of Port Royal, the Treasures of the Danmo Cave Ruins, the Meteorite of Haig, the Tomb of King Sipan, the Treasures of Hockelson, and the Russian Diamond Vault.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Peter the Great issued a special decree for the protection of treasures, requiring the people of the country not to sell the precious jewels and ornaments in the chamber at will, and the diamonds and jewels above a certain weight must be purchased by the royal family. In addition, Peter the Great searched the world for diamond jewelry, and many small countries learned that he had the best jewelry in their own hands, hoping to be sheltered and blessed. And these precious jewels have made up the Russian diamond vault today.

The ticket to the Diamond Pavilion is not cheap, and it costs 500 rubles like the ticket to the church complex, but I still chose to buy a ticket to enter the Diamond Vault.

The Diamond Vault is actually a small room with a variety of precious jewels from the 18th century onwards, the most notable of which is Catherine II's scepter and crown.

This empress, whose status in the hearts of Russia is like that of Wu Zetian in the hearts of the Chinese, may even surpass the world's most diamond-obsessed woman, with a famous Orlov diamond on her scepter, not to mention, and the world's largest spinel in the crown.

The Orlov diamond weighs 189.62 carats and is currently the third largest diamond in the world. At the beginning of the 17th century, a rough diamond weighing 309 carats was found in the diamond placer mine in Golconda, India. Later, this wonderful diamond became the eyeball of the Brahmin idol in the temple of Saringa in India.

In 1739, India was conquered by the Persian king, and the diamond was adorned on the throne of the Persian king as a trophy, after which the diamond was stolen and fell into the hands of an Armenian. In 1767, the Armenians deposited diamonds in a bank in Amsterdam. In 1772, the diamond was sold to Ivan, a former jeweller from Russia. Ivan sold the diamond again in 1773 for 400,000 rubles to Count Orlov. In the same year, Count Orlov named the diamond "Orlov" and dedicated it to Catherine II as a gift for her name day.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Catherine is the world's most diamond-obsessed woman, this woman loves jewelry to the point of obsession, and she wears priceless diamond jewelry every day, and the patterns are often renewed. Not only that, but this woman was extremely demanding in the cutting and setting of diamonds, and the best diamond cutting experts in Russian history appeared during the time of Catherine II. If the Indian king had invited someone from Russia, perhaps the diamond rose would have been carved successfully.

There was once a palace guard who had the courage (and he probably spent all his life on this) to praise Catherine II's jewelry for its beauty, and Catherine II promoted the palace guard to the rank of chief of the guard on the spot.

Continuing with the Orlov diamond, "Orlov" fell into Catherine's hands and was welded into a carved sterling silver seat, which was set on the top of the Russian scepter and was used to decorate Catherine II's scepter. To this day, "Orlov" is one of the most important collections in the diamond vault.

As for the spinel, it was bought in the imperial capital by the Russians for 2,700 gold rubles, and it is currently one of the "seven gems that must be protected" in Russia

However, it was not only our Huaxia family that was unlucky, more than a dozen of the most important diamonds in the crown were removed from the crowns of European kings at that time.

In addition to these two, there are many other legendary diamonds in the diamond bank, such as "Paul I", which was once set in the center of the Indian crown and later fell into the hands of Peter the Great, and "Shah", which was engraved with the name of the new owner before a new owner, and finally fell into the hands of Peter the Great.

The origin of the Shah diamond was due to the stabbing of the Russian ambassador to Persia in 1829 and the Tsar's threat of revenge. As soon as Persia thought that we couldn't defeat Russia, we would definitely not be able to fight this war, so let's quickly calm the tsar's anger. After thinking about it, he decided to give a treasure to Peter the Great. And this treasure is this diamond "Shah". In some ways, its value at the time seemed to be the equivalent of a war between two countries. Since then, the "Shah" has been preserved zài Russia.

After coming out of the weapons hall, I still didn't come back to my senses, and my heart was shocked and regretful, shocked by the number of treasures in the diamond hall and the weapons hall, and the pricelessness, regret that I was not allowed to take pictures inside, and there was no way to use the camera to leave the appearance of these treasures.

After glancing at the map of the Kremlin, I decided to go to the church complex first. In fact, there are not many open places in the Kremlin, and most of them are still office areas. Visitors can stand outside the office area and see the office area from a distance, but they can't cross the wide road in the center of the Kremlin to enter the office area. Originally, the Kremlin was closed to the public, and it was only in 1995 that Khrushchev decided to open the Kremlin to the outside world.

Standing in the distance and glancing at the roof of the building, I saw a national flag fluttering in the wind, and Catherine pointed to the flag and said to me with a smile: "Do you see that national flag?" It means that our Russian president is working in the Kremlin. ”

I suddenly remembered a joke about the Russian president, who said that at the beginning, Putin drove to the Kremlin to work, and then switched to flying to work because of the traffic jam.

I didn't dare to share this joke with Catherine, I was afraid that she would beat me.

I took out a DSLR and was about to take a few photos of the office area, but as soon as I pressed the shutter twice, Catherine stopped me and whispered a warning: "Put away your camera, many of the interior buildings of the Kremlin are not allowed to take pictures." ”

I put away my camera and said helplessly, "What about my travelogue?" ”

"You can go and shoot the Tsar's cannon and the Tsar's clock."

I was a little excited, "King Zhong and King Cannon? ”

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