Prot. Vsevolod Chaplin assures that the 500 ruble bill was changed at the initiative of the patriarch

On September 15, 2011, in an interview with journalists, the head Synodal Department for Relations between the Church and Society Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said that the initiator of the change in the design of the banknote of 500 Russian rubles was Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev).

According to him, it was the patriarch who “ at one time turned to the President Russia to Dmitry Medvedev with a request to instruct him to correct the image Solovetsky Monastery on a 500-ruble note ", adding images of crosses and domes.

Recall that a new bill of modification in 2010 was introduced in circulation since September 2011.

Sources

• The domes and crosses on the 500-ruble bill were depicted at the request of Patriarch Kirill // Interfax-religion. 2011. September 15.