200th Anniversary of the Birth of M.I. Glinka

Obverse

in the centre – the Emblem of the Bank of Russia [the two-headed eagle with wings down, lower – the semicircular inscription – «БАНК РОССИИ» (BANK OF RUSSIA)] framed by a circle of dots and inscriptionsalong the rim: at the top – «ДВА РУБЛЯ «(TWO RUBLES), at the bottom – the year of issue «2004», 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

a portrait of M.I. Glinka with the facsimile signature of the composer «М.И. ГЛИНКА «(M.I.GLINKA) under it, lower – a facsimile fragment of the music alnotation from the opera score «Life Sacrificed for Tsar» and the dates in two lines: «1804-1857», to the right – a lyre with the olive twig, in the background to the right – outlines of cupolas of the Moscow city.

Authors

The artist: A.V. Baklanov.
The sculptors: I.I. Kopytkin.
Moscow Mint (МMД).
The edge: 195 corrugations.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (b.20.05./01.06.1804 –d.03./15.02.1857) – composer, patriarch of Russian classicmusic who created the operas «Life Sacrificed for Tsar»(«Ivan Sussanin», 1836), «Ruslan and Ludmila» (1842), symphonicworks and romances as well.