3 Roubles The Epiphany Cathedral

Issued as part of the Bank of Russia's long-running series celebrating the architectural monuments of the Russian Federation, this piece commemorates the Epiphany Cathedral in Yelokhovo, Moscow — the parish church where Pushkin was baptized in 1799 and where the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church held services for much of the Soviet period, when the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour had been demolished by Stalin's order in 1931. Yelokhovo effectively functioned as the patriarchal cathedral for over five decades by default rather than design.