1 Rouble - Alexander I 1825

This 2009 commemorative marks the 230th anniversary of Alexander I's birth and belongs to Russia's long-running series of historical figures struck in base metal for general circulation commemoration. Alexander I died in November 1825 under circumstances that generated immediate rumor — the official account of typhus in Taganrog was disputed almost from the start, and the legend of Fyodor Kuzmich, a Siberian hermit believed by some to be the emperor living in voluntary exile, persisted well into the twentieth century and was never conclusively disproved.