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

2 roubles 2012 Russia Vasilisa Kozhina, colorized

Vasilisa Kozhina (1780 - 1840) - a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812.

Vasilisa came from Russian peasants. She was a wife of Gorshkov, a starosta (an elder) of a village ofSychyovsky Uyezd of Smolensk Governorate. During the French invasion of Russia from Vasilisa Kozhina organized in Sychyovsky Uyezd a partisan detachment of teenagers and women. All of them were armed withscythes, pitchforks, axes, bear spears and so on. During the retreat of Napoleon's troops from Moscow her guerrillas attacked French troops, captured prisoners and handed them to Russian units. For this feat Vasilisa Kozhina was awarded a medal and given a monetary reward. In 1813, the artist Alexander Smirnov has painted her sole portrait.