Featuring the portrait of Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov (1753-1818), Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars and founded Novocherkassk as the new capital of the Don Host Province. 184mmx100mm, Krause P#S414; Numista #210219.

In the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, there were many different issues of banknotes before a unified currency was introduced in the early 1920’s. These 10,000 rouble notes dated 1919 were issued in South Russia.