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Black Diamond With A Curse.
In what is being called the world's largest exhibit of diamonds underway at the London Natural History Museum, a new diamond joined the display on September 21.
The Black Orlov or The Eye of Brahma, joined the Diamonds show begun at the museum July 8. A 65-year old curse is associated with the Black Orlov and lore tells that the jewel was responsible for deaths of two Russia princesses after it was removed from a Hindu shrine in southern India.
A monk removed the original rough 195-carat diamond from the eye of the Idol of Brahma at a shrine near Pondicherry, India. This act forever cursed all future owners of the precious stone by bringing a violent death.
In 1947 princess Nadia Vyegin-Orlov and princess Leonila Galitsine-Bariatinsky (both former owners of the Black Orlov) leapt to their deaths in apparent suicides. Fifteen years earlier, J.W. Paris, the diamond dealer who imported the stone to the United States, had jumped to his death from one of New York's tallest buildings shortly after concluding the sale of the jewel.
In an attempt to break the curse, the diamond was re-cut into three separate gemstones and has since been owned by a succession of private owners, all of whom seem to have escaped the curse. The 67.5-carat Black Orlov is set in a 108-diamond brooch suspended from a 124-diamond necklace.
Black diamonds are incredibly rare. Only one in 10,000 diamonds mined are colored. Most colored diamonds get their color from chemical impurities or defects in the stone itself. Black diamonds are different: Their color comes from the presence of tiny mineral inclusions.
Recent studies have shown that these inclusions are predominantly the iron oxide minerals magnetite and haematite along with native iron itself. When these iron-rich inclusions occur in a high enough proportion they can even make diamonds magnetic.
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