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100 Roubles The Order of St. Alexander the Nevsky
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a detailed rendering of the star and badge of the Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, with the eight-pointed star set against the field and the red enamel-style cross badge of the Order suspended on a ribbon below it. An arc legend in Cyrillic along the upper rim reads «1000-ЛЕТИЕ РОССИИ * АЛЕКСАНДР НЕВСКИЙ» (The Millennium of Russia * Alexander Nevsky), while the lower rim bears the inscription «ОРДЕН СВ. АЛЕКСАНДРА НЕВСКОГО» (The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky). |
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| Mintage | 1995 ММД - Proof - 5,000 |
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The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was established by Catherine I in 1725, intended to honor the medieval prince who defeated the Swedes at the Neva in 1240 — though the order ironically went first to a Turkish diplomat. Abolished after the Revolution, it was revived by Stalin in 1942 specifically for Red Army officers, stripped of its religious trappings and recast as a purely military decoration. This 1995 issue appeared as Russia was reasserting pre-Soviet imperial symbolism across its commemorative program, a conscious recovery of tsarist iconography that the Soviet revival of the order had deliberately obscured.