Coins and banknotes of Russia. The history of the domestic monetary system in amazing facts

The Russian ruble and its "relatives" - a penny, half -lines, chervonets, as well as banknotes - an incredibly interesting object of research. This encyclopedia is primarily devoted to the history of the ruble. You will get acquainted with the time when and how the first payment funds appeared on the territory of present -day Russia and how they looked, how various means of payment arose and disappeared, what influence they had on state policy and how they themselves depended on political ups and downs, as the lands newly annexed to the state Or open deposits of minerals led to the emergence of new payment funds: previously existing rates for circulating in a new territory or coins from previously uncharacteristic metals