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100 Roubles North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | At centre, an uncrowned double-headed eagle vignette is set within an ornate foliate frame, flanked on either side by elaborate guilloche panels and floral borders. The heading СЕВЕРНАЯ РОССИЯ runs across the top, with the denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ in bold Cyrillic at centre and a text panel stating redemption conditions at right, referencing exchange at 40 roubles per pound sterling. The date 1919 appears at lower centre, with two manuscript signatures of authorised officials beneath. |
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| Reverse description | An allegorical seated female figure at left holds a cornucopia and laurel wreath, rendered in fine intaglio line engraving against an elaborate guilloche underprint with foliate scrollwork. A central oval vignette contains a classical female bust in three-quarter profile, framed by ornamental cartouches. The denomination 100 РУБЛЕЙ is inscribed in Cyrillic at lower centre. |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region — existed under Allied military protection at Arkhangelsk from 1918 to 1920, issuing currency as much to assert administrative legitimacy as to facilitate trade. Nikolai Chaikovskiy himself was a veteran Socialist Revolutionary with an improbable biography: a populist agitator in the 1870s, a Tolstoyan commune founder in Kansas, and eventually the Allied-backed head of a White government north of the Arctic Circle.
The notes of this series circulated alongside British military scrip in a region where supply lines were frozen for months at a stretch. When Allied forces withdrew in autumn 1919, the government collapsed within weeks and redemption became moot.