– Soviet SMERSH agents recover the Reliquary during the Manchurian operation. It is stored in a secret KGB psychotronic weapons vault (code: ICON-7 ) alongside the skull of a bogatyr and a nail from the True Cross that bleeds when Russians lie.
– The relics are smuggled to Harbin, China, by White Russian exiles who use the penis as a fertility charm (ironically, all children born from that ritual are stillborn or twins fused at the spine).
– During the chaos of the USSR’s collapse, a corrupt FSB colonel sells the Reliquary to an oligarch with a hemophiliac son. The oligarch dies of a sudden aneurysm while reading Rasputin’s diary. The Reliquary vanishes into the global black market of the occult.