"St. Petersburg, along with Paris, is 'the treasure of Europe. And the "most elegant" of all the buildings in the city is the Assignment Bank."
John Quincy Adams. U.S. Ambassador (later the 6th president of this country)
This is the history of Russia, told by banknotes and coins. The exhibition covers the period from 1768 to 1843 and doesn't just tell about the Assignment Bank and banknotes, but conveys the spirit of the era, the spirit of Russia and St. Petersburg at the end of the XVIII - first half of the XIX centuries.