3 Roubles The Merchant's Wife

Reverse

A fragment of the painting «A Merchant's Woman Drinking Tea» by the painter B.M. Kustodiyev. At the bottom — the Marble Palace and the date «100 ЛЕТ» (100 YEARS), the inscription along the rim: «РУССКИЙ МУЗЕЙ» (THE RUSSIAN MUSEUM).

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering:
РУССКИЙ МУЗЕЙ
100
ЛЕТ

Translation:
The Russian Museum
years

Engraver: Igor Sergeevich Komshilov

Designer: Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

Edge

300 corrugations

Comment

Date of issue: 23 JUN 1998

The State Russian Museum (up to 1917 the Russian Museum of the Emperor Alexander III) was opened on March 7 (19) 1898 in the Mikhailovsky Palace. Today the architectural complex of the museum consists of the notable monuments of the Russian architecture of the XVIIIth–XIXth centuries: the Mikhailovsky Palace (architect K. Rossi), the Stroganov Palace (architect B. Rastrelli), the Marble Palace (architect A. Rinaldi), the Engineering Castle (architects V.I.Bazhenov, V.Brenna). The museum is of the world importance. It possesses the largest and most complete collection of works of the national fine art, which contains about 400000 exhibits and covers all historical periods and trends representing the development of the Russian art within 1000 years, from the Xth to the XXth centuries.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
1998 СПМД	15000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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