01/29/2019 – Trinity option – Science

Boris Kustodiev painted the painting “Merchant Counting Money” in 1918, when this money had already lost its meaning: the royal papers were formally worth nothing, although they continued to circulate, and for gold and silver coins one could get 10 years under the decree “On Speculation” " dated July 27, 1918. The only thing that could be done with gold coins was to hand them over to the treasury. What kind of money is this? At the merchant’s hand are six hundred-ruble banknotes, and next to them are multi-colored pieces of paper: three, five and ten rubles; green, blue and red...