The City of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), XVIIIth century

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 - "ТРИ РУБЛЯ" (THREE RUBLES), at the bottom - the date "2000", 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

the pictures of architectural monuments of the palace and park ensemble of the Tsarskoye Selo: to the left - the Cameron's Gallery, in the center - the Catharine Palace, to the right - the palace church, at the bottom, near a water body and a bench, against the background of some trees, - figures of a man and two women bearing the dress of the XVIIIth century. The inscription at the top along the rim in three lines: "г. ПУШКИН (ЦАРСКОЕ СЕЛО) XVIII в." (PUSHKIN [TSARSKOYE SELO]) XVIIIth century).

Authors

The artist: A.V.Baklanov
The sculptors: A. A. Dolgopolova, A.V.Baklanov
St.Petersburg Mint (СПМД)
The edge: 300 corrugations

The palace and park ensembles (the city of Pushkin, called up to the 1918 Tsarskoye Selo - Tsar Village), constructed in the XVIIIth - XIXth centuries as a summer country residence of Russian Emperors, consists of the Catharine Park and the Palace with the palace church (the architect V.V.Rastrelli), the Cameron's Gallery (the architect Ch. Cameron), the building of the Lyceum (the architects I.V.Neyelov, V.P.Stasov), the Alexander Park and the Palace (the architect J.Quarenghi).