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3 Roubles Russian soldiers from the Patriotic War of 1812
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The mirror-polished field bears a finely detailed high-relief composition depicting Russian infantrymen of the Patriotic War of 1812 in period uniform, engaged in battle. Behind the foreground figures, billowing clouds of cannon smoke recede into the background, where silhouettes of soldiers and an officer alongside a field cannon are visible, conveying the drama of Napoleonic-era warfare. The overall scene is rendered with depth and artistic precision befitting the commemorative subject. Along the lower rim, a curved legend in Cyrillic reads НА СТРАЖЕ ОТЕЧЕСТВА (Guarding the Homeland). |
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| Edge | Reeded (300 corrugations) |
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Issued as part of Russia's long-running commemorative program marking the Napoleonic campaigns, this coin references the conflict Russians still officially call the Otechestvennaya Voyna — the Patriotic War — a term coined deliberately in 1812 to frame the struggle as a national rather than dynastic cause. The distinction mattered: Alexander I needed mass mobilization, not just professional armies, and the language of fatherland rather than tsar proved effective in drawing irregular militia and peasant partisans into the fight.