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.
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.