The 150th Anniversary of the Birth of I.Y. Repin

Obverse

the two-headed eagle (designed by I.Bilibin), the letters under it indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the mint trademark and the fine metal content. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top — «ДВА РУБЛЯ 1994 г.» (TWO RUBLES 1994), at the bottom — «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA).

Reverse

a portrait of Ilya Repin holding a brush in his right hand and a palette with brushes in his left hand, to the right - the painter's facsimile signature, below - the dates in two lines "1844" and "1930". The inscription to the left along the rim: "РУССКИЙ ХУДОЖНИК" ( A RUSSIAN PAINTER).

Authors

The artist: I.I. Kopytkin
The sculptors: I.I. Kopytkin, A.A. Kolodkin
Moscow Mint (ММД)
The edge: 195 corrugations

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (August 5 (July 24), 1844-September 29, 1930) - a Russian painter, a member of the Society of Wandering Exhibitions. Among his best known work are historical paintings ("Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan" and "Dnieper Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan") and pictures demonstrating the moral and physical strength of the Russian people ("Barge Haulers on the Volga" and "A Religious Procession in the Kursk Province"). Repin's portraits of his contemporaries (Modest Moussorgsky and Pavel Tretyakov) have psychological depth and strong social undertones.