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2 Roubles Viktor Vasnetsov
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Thickness | 2.40 mm |
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| Reverse description | To the right of centre, a portrait of the painter Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, based on the celebrated likeness executed by Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov, occupies the field. To the left, a prominent fragment from Vasnetsov's monumental painting «Богатыри» («Bogatyrs»), depicting armoured warriors of ancient Rus', fills the remaining field. At the lower centre, an artist's palette with paintbrushes is depicted as an attribute of the subject's vocation. Below, a four-line inscription reads «ВИКТОР ВАСНЕЦОВ» with the birth and death dates «1848» and «1926» beneath. |
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Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running commemorative series honoring figures in Russian art and culture, this issue marks the 150th anniversary of Viktor Vasnetsov's birth. Vasnetsov occupies an unusual position in Russian cultural history — trained as an academic painter, he pivoted decisively toward folk epic subjects and medieval Rus themes at a time when that direction was considered artistically retrograde by his St. Petersburg contemporaries. The Abramtsevo colony, where he spent formative years alongside Repin and Polenov, was central to that shift.
Mintage for these Bank of Russia silver commemoratives from the late 1990s was typically held to just 15,000 pieces.