Dancing on a chervonets with the face of the emperor.

In 1901, the owner of the Yaroslavl Large Manufactory, well-known not only for his wealth but also for his boundless imagination, merchant of the first guild Nikolay Igumnov arranged a luxurious ball in his new “terem” house at 43 Yakimanka Street. To impress his guests, he covered the floor of the dance hall with gold coins. 

Kicking up the heels until morning, the guests did not even think that they trample their heels of the Emperor’s profile himself, engraved on the coins. This was immediately reported to Nicholas II, and, infuriated, he exiled Igumnov to the remote Abkhazian village of Alakhadzy with no right to demand return to the capital. 

After the owner’s departure, the “terem” on Yakimanka was put up for sale, but no one would buy it.

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