Pictured above (right) with one of his many sons (left), Mir Osman Ali Khan was known to be a stingy man, wearing the same fez cap for over three decades and even believed to eat on a tin plate.
However, Khan lived in a palace which had 6,000 workers (38 of which had jobs to dust the chandeliers), had a treasury with gold, silver, and jewelries amounting to millions of dollars, as well as owning a diamond paperweight worth $200 million. When Khan died in 1967, he was reported to have left $230B in wealth, seven wives, 42 mistresses, and 149 children.
3. Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (Wealth: $300B)
Also referred to as Tsar Nicholas II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov is the last emperor of Russia. During his rule, Tsar Nicholas II was believed to amass $300B worth of wealth. He and his family were executed in 1918 during the Russian Revolution.
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1. Mansa Musa (Wealth: $400B)
The richest man that ever walked the earth (to date) is Mansa Musa, the emperor of Mali. Musa, born in 1280, was able to grow his wealth through the country’s natural resource — gold.
The emperor lived such a lavish lifestyle where it was believed that his pilgrimages to Mecca involved dozens of camels carrying pounds after pounds of gold. It is also believed that Musa had a huge army of 200,000 men with 40,000 archers.
Besides spending money on himself, Musa also built educational structures and mosques, some of which still stand today.
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