200th Anniversary of the Birth of A.S.Pushkin

Obverse

in the center — the Emblem of the Bank of Russia (the two headed eagle designed by I.Bilibin, lower — the semicircular inscription — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA) framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «СТО РУБЛЕЙ» (HUNDRED RUBLES), at the bottom —«1999», the letters to the left indicate the metal sign and the fineness, to the right — the fine metal content and the mint trade mark.

Reverse

to the left — the portrait of A.S.Pushkin, to the right and under it — fairy tale personages of the poem «Ruslan and Ludmila» («an oak on the curved seashore ..», «a trained cat», Ruslan and «the living »head), «the cockerel from a high finial »from the tale «About the Golden Cockerel», lower — an old man with a fish in the seine from the tale «About the Fisherman and the Fish». The inscription at the bottom — «АЛЕКСАНДР ПУШКИН» (ALEXANDR PUSHKIN) and the dates «1799» «1837».

Authors

The artist: A.V.Baklanov
The sculptor: A.V.Baklanov
Moscow Mint (ММД)
The edge: 240 corrugations

A.S.Pushkin lived in the period when a verbal tale had prospered. He interested in the folk arts and created the new literary genre:the tale poem in which live fantastic bogatyrs (warriors in ancient Russia)and mermaids, formidable knights and magician, devils and Baba Yaga (a witch in Russian folk tales). The good is in the center of the fairy tale beauty and gains always victory over the evil.