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  • 2 Rubles 1995, Y# 377, Russia, Federation, Outstanding Personalities of Russia, 200th Anniversary of Birth of Alexander Griboyedov
  • 2 Rubles 1995, Y# 377, Russia, Federation, Outstanding Personalities of Russia, 200th Anniversary of Birth of Alexander Griboyedov
Description

Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (1795–1829) proved himself as a man of many talents: he was an insightful Russian diplomat, an endowed playwright and a composer. Griboyedov is often referred to as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, who won his laurels for the brilliant verse comedy “Woe from Wit,” still very timely and one of the most frequently staged plays in Russia. “Woe from Wit” takes precedence over the finest modern satires, like Nikolay Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” which lampoons the bureaucracy of Imperial Russia, and Mikhail Bulgakov's satiric short stories of “The Soviet State.”

He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where he and all the embassy staff were massacred by an angry mob as a result of the rampant anti-Russian sentiment that existed through Russia's imposing of the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) and Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828), which had forcefully ratified for Persia's ceding of its northern territories comprising Transcaucasia and parts of the North Caucasus. Griboyedov had played a pivotal role in the ratification of the latter treaty. In a move to compensate Russia for the attack and the death of its ambassador, the Shah sent his grandson Khosrow Mirza to St Petersburg to avoid another war with Tsar Nicholas I and also gifted to him the Shah Diamond.

Date of issue: 10.01.1995

Obverse

Depicts the emblem of the Central Bank of Russia (the two-headed eagle with wings down) surrounded by the value TWO RUBLES and date above and the semicircular inscription BANK OF RUSSIA below. The letters under the eagle indicate the metal sign, the fineness, the mint trademark and the fine metal content.

ДВА РУБЛЯ 1995г.
Ag 500 ММД 7,78
БАНК РОССИИ

Reverse

Depicts a portrait of Alexander Griboyedov, to the left - a candle, a goose-quill in an inkpot, an opened book and a laurel branch. The inscription at the bottom along the rim - A.S. GRIBOYEDOV and over it to the left - the date "1795" and to the right - the date "1829".

Artist: V. I. Zaslavsky
Sculptor: A.A. Kolodkin

1795 1829
А.С. ГРИБОЕДОВ

Edge

195 corrugations

2 Rubles

Outstanding Personalities of Russia
200th Anniversary of Birth of Alexander Griboyedov

Subscribe series
Y# 377 CBR# 5110-0006
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Silver
Fineness 0.500
Weight 15.87 g
Diameter 33 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Moscow Mint (MMD)

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