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1 Rouble Mikalai Radziwill 'Chorny'
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a right-facing portrait bust of Mikalai Radziwill 'Chorny' (1515–1565), the prominent Lithuanian-Belarusian magnate and statesman, rendered in fine engraved detail with period costume featuring an ornate collar and robe. To the left of the effigy, the heraldic coat of arms of the Radziwill family — a crowned shield bearing an eagle — is depicted in the field. The curved inscription 'МІКАЛАЙ РАДЗІВІЛ ЧОРНЫ' arcs along the upper periphery in Cyrillic script, with the life dates '1515–1565' positioned to the right in the field. |
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| Edge | Plain with inscription |
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Mikalai Radziwill "Chorny" — the epithet meaning "the Black" — was the most powerful magnate in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the height of his influence in the mid-16th century, serving as Grand Chancellor and wielding political authority that rivaled the Jagiellonian monarchy itself. He was the principal patron behind the 1563 Brest Bible, the first complete printed Bible in any East Slavic language, funded entirely from his personal fortune. His conversion to Calvinism made him the engine of the Reformation across Lithuanian noble society, a religious shift that largely reversed within a generation of his death in 1565.