Painter I.I. Levitan - the 150th Anniversary of the Birthday

Obverse

in the centre - the emblem of the Bank of Russia [the two-headed eagle with wings down, under it - the semicircular inscription "БАНК РОССИИ" (BANK OF RUSSIA)] framed by a circle of dots and inscriptions along the rim - on top: "ДВА РУБЛЯ" (TWO RUBLES), below: to the left - indications of the precious metal and its fineness, in the centre - the year of issue "2010 г." (2010), to the right - the fine metal content and the mint trade mark.

Reverse

To the left -the portrait of I.I. Levitan and the facsimile inscription of the painter "И. ЛЕВИТАН" (I. LEVITAN), lower - a palette with paint-brushes and dates in two lines: "1860" and "1900", in the background - the colored image of the painting "Twilight. The Moon".

Authors

The artist: S.V. Sutyagin.
The sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova.
Mint: Saint Petersburg Mint (СПМД).
The edge: 195 corrugations.

Isak Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900) - Russian painter-Peredvizhnik, creator of the "landscape of mood", characterized by wealth of poetic feelings, cheerfulness, exposing the finest traits of the nature, plein-air, delicately shaded painting. The most famous paintings of the master are "March", "Lake. Rus", "Over Eternal Peace", "Vladimirka" and others are exposed in the Tretyakov Gallery.