Conspiracy Theories On Alaska- Part Two

Signatory of contract, Stoke, was married to an American and has been tightly integrated into American high society of the time, so he could not bribe senators motivating them to ratify the agreement, a fact fueled by a belief in the informal theory.

Although a key negotiator in the business, he was dissatisfied with the commission he had received from Russia, so he left the service and to the end of his life, he avoided the Russian society, and according to some versions, he took it for himself a larger amount of money.

Transfer of gold in the agreed amount of $ 7.6 million, is done through London, but the ship “Orkney", who were carrying gold mysteriously disappeared on 16 July 1868, on his way to St. Petersburg, and the insurance company went bankrupt and paid only part of the sum provided for in Russia.

In contrast to reactions that could appear these days, the American public was dissatisfied with throwing money into the wind.

In Russia, people were confused about why they sold the territory in whose research was invested a lot over the past 126 years, wondering why America needed these 1.5 million square kilometers of frozen and uninhabited land.

Russian fiction is still full of popular myths that it is possible to dispute the agreement that Alaska is leased, and not sold, and that it was sold earlier by Empress Catherine second.

Alaska is an inevitable part of political folklore in the two countries, so that one of the Russian Orthodox NGOs "Bees" filed last year Arbitration Court of Moscow to declare null and void the purchase contract.

"Bees" invoked the third member of the agreement under which the US government is obliged to provide the Russian population of Alaska to live in accordance with the customs, religion and tradition, which is not possible because of legalizing same-sex marriage in the United States.

They also called for the controversial $ 7.6 million, they claim, which they never pay.

Ukrainian crisis and the deterioration of relations between the White House - the Kremlin, again triggered an avalanche of public speculation about the return of Alaska in Russian possession, but none of the official representatives of Russia has commented on the theory of the nullity of the contract.