Goznak - 100th Anniversary of the birth of Maya Plisetskaya

Goznak has issued commemorative souvenir sheets and collector items for decades, but this piece marks the centenary of Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi prima ballerina born in Moscow on 20 November 1925. Her career survived the Stalin-era arrest of her father and the exile of her mother to a Kazakh labor camp — she was effectively raised by her aunt, the dancer Sulamith Messerer, which kept her inside the Soviet dance world long enough to become its defining figure.

As a non-circulating commemorative, the watermark here is more symbolic than functional — Goznak applying its security infrastructure to a collectible format regardless of practical necessity.