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3 Roubles The New Hermitage
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Alexander Vasilyevich Baklanov Reverse: Alexandra Arsenyevna Dolgopolova |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Mintage | 2002 СПМД - Proof - 10,000 |
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The New Hermitage, completed in 1851 under Nicholas I, was the first purpose-built public museum in Russia — a deliberate political statement at a moment when European revolutionary movements were making monarchs anxious about public access to culture. Leo von Klenze, the Munich architect responsible for the building, designed it explicitly to rival the great civic museums of Western Europe. This coin belongs to the Bank of Russia's long-running Monuments of Architecture series, which began issuing commemorative silver roubles in the early 1990s as the newly reconstituted central bank sought consistent annual programming.
The 1851 opening was attended by Nicholas I himself, though the public was admitted only days later.