25 Roubles A.S. Shein

Alexei Semyonovich Shein commanded Russian forces during Peter the Great's Azov campaigns of 1695–96, becoming the first Russian to hold the rank of Generalissimo — a title Peter invented specifically for him following the successful second siege of Azov. The appointment was partly ceremonial politics: Peter needed a Russian-born figurehead above the foreign officers who actually dominated his modernizing army. Shein died in 1700, just as the Great Northern War began, sparing him the disasters that followed at Narva.