Before we get to Lenin, here is a more modern Russian note - the 10000 rouble note from 1995. This was the second issue after the dissolution of the USSR on Christmas day 1991. It has the bridge over the river Yenisei at Krasnoyarsk along with the Paraskeva Pyatnitsa Chapel . the reverse has the hydro electric dam at Kranovarsk.
And now for Lenin. Here he is on the 1 Chervonet note from 1937, 13 years after his death. The Chervonet was used as a parallel currency while the civil war was being fought in Russia and the Bolshevik government was trying to devalue the rouble. the name comes from the polish Czerwony zloty. There is some debate but this issue might have been issued to commemorate 20 years of the Bolshevik revolution !! although not very valuable, this is a note I wanted to get for a while.
See more Russian notes HERE and HERE
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