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100 Roubles Belarusian Ballet
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#452 |
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| Obverse lettering | РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ 100 РУБЛЁЎ 2013 Ag 999 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a composition inspired by Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake. A relief figure of a dancing ballerina in classical pose dominates the left portion of the field, rendered with fine sculptural detail. Two stylized soaring feathers are depicted in the upper and lower areas of the field, evoking the swan motif central to the ballet. A two-line inscription in the central field reads БЕЛАРУСКI БАЛЕТ, identifying the overarching commemorative theme of Belarusian ballet. |
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Belarus has issued commemorative silver in large formats fairly consistently since the late 1990s, but the ballet series occupies a particular niche — the country's academic ballet tradition, centered on the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Minsk, dates to 1933 and survived the near-total destruction of the city during the Second World War. The company rebuilt from almost nothing after 1944 and by the Soviet late period had developed a reputation distinct enough from Moscow to warrant its own identity.
KM#452 is one of several high-relief 500-gram-range issues from this run. The National Bank produced these primarily for the collector export market.