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SIR, -- Having drawn upon Messrs. Simondsen and Company of St. Petersburg for the sum of 2000 roubles (two thousand roubles) as a deposit upon an order for 450 reams of Chinese paper, at _twenty-five roubles_ per ream,

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842

The artist, they said, had, during this long period, received an annual pension of so many roubles from the Russian government, and had taken his time about it.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

The Chinese in Peking were doubtless growing uneasy, and the following paragraph which appeared about this time in the "Peking Daily News," a Chinese-owned newspaper with an European circulation, suggests that the authorities were somewhat late in the field with their honours and encouragements for those Mongols who even now were perhaps flirting with presents of roubles from a more northern source.

A Tour in Mongolia 1920

Italian, in almost the same words.] [Footnote 54: The money is sometimes called roubles, and sometimes thalers.] [Footnote 55: Visits to Hades or Hell (Põrgu) are common in the

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

Having no concept of rates of exchange, Bruce, my then boyfriend, and I had made the mistake of taking our earnings in Russian roubles.

In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

Having no concept of rates of exchange, Bruce, my then boyfriend, and I had made the mistake of taking our earnings in Russian roubles.

In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007

"I am authorized to pay you twenty thousand roubles, that is, two thousand pounds in your money ----"

The Book of All-Power Edgar Wallace 1903

We will only note that the point principally insisted upon in the examination was the question of the three thousand roubles, that is, was the sum spent here, at Mokroe, by Mitya on the first occasion, a month before, three thousand or fifteen hundred?

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

Lana Sator, the blogger, said she was questioned by the police, warned not to re-enter the facility, and fined a paltry 300 roubles, which is the equivalent of about six pounds.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andrew Osborn 2012

The story text referred to Navalny's having raised 85.3m roubles in internet donations.

Corrections and clarifications 2011