10 Roubles Vincent Dunin-Martsynkevich

Dunin-Martsynkevich was a 19th-century Belarusian poet and playwright who wrote primarily in the Belarusian language at a time when tsarist authorities were actively suppressing its use in print. His 1846 operetta Sialanka is considered the founding work of modern Belarusian-language theater. The National Bank of Belarus has issued numerous collector silver pieces honoring cultural figures underrepresented in Soviet-era historiography — this is squarely in that vein.