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The Imperial Russian Historical Society was a public organization of Imperial Russia. It was subject to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Education. It was founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1917. It published studies on Russian history and historical documents connected with the Imperial Russian state. It is most notable as the publisher of the Russian Biographical Dictionary. Its emblem was an image of the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky.
Saint Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 – c. 1114) was the reputed author of the Primary Chronicle, (the earliest East Slavic chronicle), Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Life of the Holy Passion Bearers, Boris and Gleb, and of the so-called Reading.
His chronicle begins with the Deluge, as those of most Christian chroniclers of the time did. The compiler appears to have been acquainted with the Byzantine historians; he makes use especially of John Malalas and George Hamartolus. He also had in all probability other Slavonic language chronicles to compile from, which have since been lost. Many legends are mixed up with Nestor's Chronicle; the style is occasionally so poetical that perhaps he incorporated bylinas which are now lost.
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In the centre the relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation, above the semicircular inscription along the rim THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION framed on both sides by ornamental elements of doubled rhombuses, in the lower part of the disc, at the edge the horizontal inscription 50 RUBLES and the date 2016 under it, over it to the right the mint trade mark. РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ |
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On the mirror field of the disc is the relief image of the sculpture "Nestor the Chronicler" by M. Antokolsky, along the rim the inscription: "RUSSIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED IN 1866". РУССКОЕ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО |
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50 Rubles
The 150th Anniversary of Foundation of the Russian Historical Society
Nestor the Chronicler
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The 150th Anniversary of Foundation of the Russian Historical Society
Nestor the Chronicler
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The 150th Anniversary of Foundation of the Russian Historical Society
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