Shah diamond

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Soviet postage stamp from 1971

The Shah diamond ( Russian Алмаз "Шах" ) is a 88.7 carat (18 g), 3 cm long, yellow diamond of high clarity, which is decorated with three Persian inscriptions.

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The diamond was found in Golkonda ( India ) around 1450 and is in the Kremlin . After its discovery, the diamond came into the possession of the Sultan of Ahmadnagar . In 1591 the Mughal Mughal Akbar I conquered the city of Ahmednagar , which he plundered and took the diamond back to Delhi . In 1738 Nadir Shah attacked India and the diamond came to Persia as part of the pillage of Delhi . When the Russian ambassador Alexander Griboyedov was murdered in Tehran , Persia, in 1829 , the Persian Shah Fath Ali Shah is said to have given the diamond to Russia as a gift for the Tsar . It could also have been a present from the Persian Prince Coshrev, who visited the Tsar in St. Petersburg .

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The inscriptions

The Shahs (historical engravings ) provide information about three owners of this jewel.

  • "Bourham-Nizam-Shah II. In the year 1000" (corresponds to 1591)
  • "Son of Jehangir Shah - Jehan Shah in the year 1051" (1641)
  • "Possession of Kadjar Fath Ali Shah in 1242" (1826)

The very pure and clear, slightly yellowish gemstone has been left almost in its natural shape, which has the somewhat asymmetrical shape of an octahedron . The engravings are on three polished surfaces. The diamond has a groove about 0.5 millimeters deep because it was attached to the canopy of the throne with a cord at Aurangzeb's court . The technique used to insert the inscriptions is not known. It is located in the Diamond Fund Exposition in the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Shah. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at intec2000.de, accessed on March 28, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intec2000.de
  2. ↑ Johannes O. Vranek: Stories about precious stones . BoD - Books on Demand, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8334-0690-4 ( Google Books ).
  3. ↑ The year 1000 comes from the old Mohammedan calendar.