TABLE OF RUSSIAN MONEY. 
1 Denga, or Denushka - - - - equals \ a Copeek: 
1 Polushka, the smallest coin of Russia = % Do. 
The Polushka takes its name from a hare-skin, Ushka 
(which, before the use of money, was one of the lowest articles 
of exchange); Pol signifying half; and Polushka, half a hare's 
skin. 
The gold coinage of Russia is scarcely ever seen. It consists 
principally of ducats, the first of which were struck by Peter 
the Great, worth two roubles and twenty-five copeeks each. 
When the author was in Petersburg, a coinage was going on 
at the mint, day and night, for the private use of the Emperor 
Paul, of seventy-three pouds of gold ; the whole of which was 
juade into ducats. The mint was worked by steam-engines. 
