USSR commemorative Palladium Coins

Series: Russian Ballet.
Dancing Ballerina.

Par : 25 rubles

Release Date: 12.04.1991

Mint: Leningrad Mint (LMD) (ST. Petersburg)

Metal, fineness	Palladium 999/1000
Quality	B / U
Content chemically pure metal, g	31.1
Total weight, g	31.1
Thickness, mm	2.7
Diameter, mm	37
The edge	300 corrugations.
Mintage, pcs.	30000

Ballet emerged in the late fifteenth-century Renaissance court culture of Italy as a dance interpretation of fencing, and further developed in the French court from the time of Louis XIV in the 17th century. This is reflected in the largely French vocabulary of ballet. Despite the great reforms of Noverre in the eighteenth century, ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it was continued in Denmark, Italy, and Russia. It was reintroduced to western Europe on the eve of the First World War by a Russian company: the Russian Ballet of Sergei Diaghilev, who came to be influential around the world.