This is the FULL AUDIO version of my blog post on the Yusupov black pearl necklace. All pictures from the original post are in this video...plus a few that didn't make it into the post. Yay!

Okay, so this isn't a tiara - but it's a jewel with a royal provenance and a story too good not to tell. It includes incest, revolution, robbery, and infidelity, with a guest appearance by the Titanic.

The story begins with Catherine the Great, who gave the black pearl necklace to her lover, Prince Grigori Potemkin. From there, it descended into the Yusupov family, where it remained until Felix Yusupov sold it after the Russian Revolution. Where did it end up? In America, with an heiress who really needed some retail therapy to help her through her relationship problems.

Chapters
0:00 How Many Pearls?
2:34 The Saga Begins
4:25 Meet the Yusupovs
7:47 The Yusupov Curse
12:51 The Most Expensive Game of Hide and Seek, Like, Ever
16:24 American Immigration vs. a Dude Named Felix
21:20 Meet Mathilde
25:34 What's Love Got to Do with It?
29:29 Cue Celine Dion
33:57 Retail Therapy
36:13 The Curse Strikes Back
38:17 Provenance Impossible
43:53 What Happened?

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