Pre-war Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost owned by the last Tsar of Russia to sell for £3.5MILLION
The Silver Ghost - once described as the best car in the world - belonged to petrolhead Tsar Nicholas II
A PRE-WAR Rolls-Royce once owned by the last Tsar of Russia is up for sale
The 1914 Silver Ghost is listed with an incredible asking price of more than £3.5million.
The historic purple car was the favourite motor of petrolhead Nicholas II.
The Tsar famously had 21 chauffuers - one for each of his classic vehicles which also included another Rolls-Royce plus Delaunay-Belleville, Mercedes and Renault models.
But Nicholas was forced to abdicate after the February Revolution in 1917 and he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks the following year.
The car survived and was bought by an eccentric US collector who put it on display at the Imperial Casino in Las Vegas.
It was then bought by John Ringling, the most famous of seven brothers and mastermind behind the Ringling Brothers Circus, who kept it in his nuclear bunker in Germany until the early 2000s.
The Rolls-Royce - which boasts a 7,428 cc six-cylinder engine - has now been listed for sale on the Avito website.
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The drop-top has done just 2,000kms (1,200 miles) and is priced at 278 million RUB (3,502,800 GBP).
The Silver Ghost was the model behind Rolls-Royce's claim of making the "best car in the world" – a phrase coined by the prestigious Autocar publication in 1907.
It was produced by the British firm between 1906 and 1926 with almost 8,000 rolling off production lines.
