3 Roubles Great Ascension Church

Part of the Bank of Russia's long-running architectural monuments series, this issue commemorates the Church of the Great Ascension on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow — the church where Alexander Pushkin married Natalya Goncharova in February 1831. The wedding was famously troubled from the start: a candle guttered during the ceremony, a ring fell, and Pushkin reportedly interpreted both as ill omens. He was killed in a duel six years later.

The church itself was not fully completed until the 1840s, years after the wedding that made it historically notable.