Would You Risk Purchasing This Tobacco From Russia ....

Heck I'll sale you 3 tins of Bayou for that price.

I think you're conflating it with the Frog Romanov that's been a hot seller in dark alleyways around the Kremlin.

Just to be sassy. Good hydroponic weed in Colorado is as much lol. I don't think it is a wise purchase. 

Depends how much I've been drinking before I log into ebay

I did put "LOL" in the end of my post.

 I may pay that kind of money for some left handed baccy, but not from the land of Vlad the Invader.

^ Trailboss can you post the link?

This^^^^.

Here's the thing about buying vintage tobacco that people who sell it are not going to say, unless pressed to do so.

It's a total crapshoot.

Because it's not just about the age, it's also about how the tins were stored while aging. Were they exposed to extreme heat or cold, both of which can affect the tobacco inside the tin. There's no way to verify how anything was kept over the years. Even if the tins were well cellared, there's no guarantee that the blend is still in good condition. Might be, might not. Seals on old square and rectangular tins fail, larger percentages over time. I've bought tins from the same cellar, same blend, nearly same age, but different batch dates and one was superb and the other was garbage.

Still, there is this mystique about vintage blends, kind of like the mystique about Dunhill pipes, that causes many pipe smokers to jettison all critical thinking and to fall into a romanticized swoon while reaching deeply into their wallets.

The majority of tins I've smoked in the 40 year and up age group have been disappointments. There are been a few, and small handful, that were fantastic. The remainder ranged from wraiths and ghosts of former glory to pure unadulterated zombie vomit.

So when someone coughs up many hundreds of dollars over an anonymous tin of vintage 1982 Chateau Smegma, they're just rolling he dice, and kidding themselves if they think differently. Or, they may figure that it's an investment and that they can hold onto it for another 10 years and sucker some other poor besotted schmuck into paying significantly more for it.

I won't say that I never purchase a vintage tin. I do, once in a blue moon, when the price is significantly below what I'm seeing being paid for it elsewhere, it's not a significant amount, and it's not all that old a tin. Otherwise, I can think of much better ways to spend, or not spend, my very hard earned cash.