Color printing - private work. Coin colorized at one side.

2 roubles 2012 Russia Davydov, colorized

Denis Vasilyevich Davydov  was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.

Davydov stemmed from a great family of Russian nobility. After gaining celebrity as an indefatigable guerrilla leader of theRussian Patriotic War, he became one of the most popular men in the country. Young men of Pushkin's circle viewed him as a model romantic hero and theDecembrists prized his company as well.