3 Roubles The Nutcracker

Reverse

A scene from the duel between the Prince and the King of Mice, the inscription along the rim - "ЩЕЛКУНЧИК" (THE NUTCRACKER).

Script: Cyrillic

Lettering: ЩЕЛКУНЧИК

Translation: THE NUTCRACKER

Engraver: Igor Sergeevich Komshilov

Designer: Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov

Edge

300 corrugations

Comment

Date of issue: 22 JUL 1996

The "The Nutcracker", a ballet written to Peter Tchaikovsky's music and Marius Petipa's adaptation of Ernest Hoffmann's fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the King of Mice" and choreographed by Lev Ivanov, was first staged in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on December 6, 1892. The ballet has a dramatic history: its original version was not particularly successful with the public as Marius Petipa, the choreographer of the Mariinsky Theatre, could not stage it himself due to ill health. Later different versions of the ballet were produced. It was first shown in Moscow only in 1915. "The Nutcracker" received a new lease of life on March 12, 1966, on the stage of the Bolshoi Thearte where it was produced by Yuri Grigorovich. The leading parts in the ballet were performed by the ballet stars Y.Maximova, V.Vasilyev, G. Sitnikov and V. Levashov (the scenery was designed by artist S. Virsaladze and the orchestra was conducted by G.Rozhdestvensky). "The Nutcracker" has been successfully staged in many countries.

Interesting fact

Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
1996 ЛМД	25000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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