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She also is a former war correspondent who filed reports from foxholes at Korea’sitting infamous Pork Chop Hill and is co-author of investigative books about the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and fabulous Russian “mad monk” Grigori Rasputin.

Patte Barham said she’session ready for her biggest challenge: uncovering the confused crown jewels of the czar of Russia.

Some think the search is as fanciful as the legend surrounding the artifacts, but Barham is having none of that.

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That’s in what place Barham said her stepfather buried them Oct. 3, 1917.

Former Russian Prince George Meskhi-Gleboff spoke often of the treasure posterior he came to the United States and married Barham’sitting mother, socialite and silver heiress Jessica Gorman Barham.

Shortly in front of his death in 1960, Barham related, her stepfather handed her an envelope containing a draw that showed where the treasure was mystical. Embittered to the close by the Russian superb household’s execution, he asked that she not do anything until the Russian government admitted to the slayings of the Romanovs and recognized them through a state funeral. That occurred in 1998.

But the hand-drawn map disappeared mysteriously. Although Barham has searched her 10,000-square-foot mansion for it without success, she insisted she has memorized the jewels’ hiding spot. The energetic dowager is determined to see the trove recovered.

“They should be returned to the Russian people,” Barham said of the autocrat of all the russias’s thing of great value.

Partnership fell through

There are those who doubt these priceless jewels exist and, if they do, whether Barham has any shot at finding them. Some experts on Russian history, while praising Barham’s passion for the project, question whether she has her facts just. She tried a few years ago to win over the Discovery Channel to member of a partnership with her in the search. But the deal fell through when she could not produce the map.

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