100 Roubles Alexander Kusher

Alexander Kushner is a Saint Petersburg poet, long associated with the Leningrad literary underground and a contemporary of Brodsky, though he chose to remain in the Soviet Union rather than emigrate. Transnistria's decision to issue a coin honoring a living Russian lyric poet — one still active and residing in Russia — is unusual enough to warrant pause. The unrecognized republic has used its commemorative silver program aggressively since the 1990s to project cultural legitimacy, issuing coins tied to Russian literary and artistic figures well beyond any plausible connection to the Dniester region.