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Jackpot! Divers rescue 900 bottles of old French liquor bound for Russian Tsar Nicholas II (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
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Intended for the last Russian Tsar, the precious cargo was scuttled by a German U-boat at the height of World War I, having spent over 100 years under water until a team of divers extracted it from the Baltic Sea floor. The intriguing story began in May 1917 when a Swedish steamer S/S Kyros set sail for Petrograd – now St. Petersburg – having 50 cases of French cognac and 15 cases of liqueur on board. The recipient of the shipment was Emperor Nicolas II, who dramatically abdicated from the throne just two months prior. Russia was still formally at war with the German Empire, so the cargo was sent from France on a ship belonging to neut

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