concept
Silver Rouble
silver rouble
also: целковый, серебряный рубль
The tselkovy, a hard-currency silver rouble as opposed to the depreciated paper assignat rouble of the pre-1897 Russian monetary system -- invoked by Otletaev to make his gun's price sound more impressive.
Reading notes
- The Twenty-Ninth of June (the tale of a hunter who never hits his mark) §17 six hundred silver roubles
The 'silver rouble' (tselkovy) specified the pre-1897 hard-currency rouble as opposed to depreciated paper assignats -- a boast meant to signal the gun's supposedly serious value.