From this amount there, in America, the Russian Ambassador to the United States Baron Glass subsided 144 thousand dollars, which he spent bribes to American officials, so that they would ratify the contract, and leave another 21 thousand to his work.
The second loss of funds happened in London, where the remains of the amounts were transferred for the purchase of gold ingots there. In the capital of Great Britain, dollars were transferred to the local currency - that is, into pounds sterling, and already pounds sterling - in gold bullion. On all these converts, a very large part was miraculously lost - 1.5 million.
Finally, many believe that the third loss of funds occurred in July 1868 near St. Petersburg, where the part of the Golden Eathes was taking the orkni. This bark suddenly sank, and the insurance company that insured the cargo, just as unexpectedly went bankrupt, paying only miserable crumbs to consignees. There is no reliable data that the “orkni” went with ingots, it is quite possible that everything was adjusted, and the gold was calmly lying in Britain, and the ship and insurance simply played a certain “performance” in front of the Russians. There are information received recently that the ingots were unloaded in Hamburg, from there they were transported to Austria and steam locomotives and other railway infrastructure were purchased for the construction of a railway line from Moscow to the southeast. It is this version that is confirmed by some documents, including those stored in the State Archive of Russia. It also says that only part of the funds was spent on the railway, and the rest of the cash entered the treasury.
Alaska was officially transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. The Americans themselves, with all this, were not too happy about such an acquisition. Most likely, if it were not for the bribes to officials from the glass, then the contract would not have been ratified in the American government. This can be discussed by the fact that only one person voted for the purchase than against. However, very soon in Alaska, both gold and other valuable minerals found Alaska. Thus, the land that is not very necessary for Americans has turned into a very necessary, and the transaction is considered the greatest achievement of the American government of those years. In the photo, a check of 7.2 million dollars used to buy Alaska. By the way, in the Russian public opinion, the idea was quite firmly established that the large deposits of gold in Alaska became known only after the sale of this territory of the United States. This is not entirely true. There was information about the presence of gold in Russian America already in the 50s and early 60s of the XIX century, and these news were more upset than pleased the Russian government. For their development, Russia does not have
