The Tikhvin Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

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 inscriptions along the rim: at the top – «ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ» (TWENTY FIVE RUBLES), at the bottom – the year of issue «2006», 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

view of architectural ensemble of a monastery with a glassy reflection on the water-table. The inscriptions along the rim: at the top – «ТИХВИНСКИЙ БОГОРОДИЧНЫЙ УСПЕНСКИЙ МОНАСТЫРЬ» (THE TIKHVIN MONASTERY OF THE DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD), at the bottom – «ОСН. в XVI в. (FOUNDED in the XVIth century).

Authors

The artists: E.V. Kramskaya, A.V. Baklanov,
National Artist of Russia.
The sculptor: A.V. Baklanov.
St. Petersburg mint (СПМД).
The edge: 252 corrugations.

The Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God was founded in the town of Tikhvin in 1560 according to the Edict of the Tsar Ivan IV. The holy Cell arose at the place which had been blessed in 1383 by the appearance of the miracleworking icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria («Showing the Way») that was named thereafter Tikhvin icon.