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Have you ever seen a black diamond? Black diamonds are rare, and for reasons you're about to find out, may be something you want to avoid.

Especially this particular black diamond. The Orlov diamond has a dark long history, that left its owners on a streak of bad lucks.

This is the story of the Orlov diamond. Let's dive in.

It's been said that the black diamond comes from a Hindu statue. They called it the eye of Brahma.

This 195-carat stone was pried out of the forehead of the statue, by a monk, but it's unclear who the monk was.

Some people have seen a mysterious monk inside the temple, before the diamond vanished. The incident is said to have happened in 1747.

The story goes that a French soldier by the name of, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, first spotted the diamond, and became entrenched with it.

From there, Tavernier then sold the diamond to a British sea captain named, Samuel Greig. Greig was the first person to bring the diamond into Europe. He tried to sell it but no one wanted it. It took multiple more attempts. He almost gave up. But eventually, he managed to track down a person willing to purchase the diamond, count Grigory Grigorievich Orlov, a lover of Catherine the Great and a prominent statesman in Russia.

Princess Nadezhda Orlova of Russia, was one of the first official owners of the diamond.

Soon after the diamond came into princess Orlova's possession, news broke that she ended her own life.


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