The woman had been earning her living by moonshining.
"Having studied a variety of Russian state and commercial banks, the woman concluded that the safest place was her cellar," the newspaper said.
Komsomolskaya Pravda said the incident occurred in a village near the town of Shatura, 130 kilometers east of Moscow.
It reported that doctors from the local psychiatric hospital had to give the woman an anti-shock treatment after the loss was discovered.
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