Russian money

Usage examples of roubles.

My answer had been that I could only give her to a man she liked, and that I meant to make her a present of the hundred roubles I had given for her.

I had certain claims, but as I remarked that I expected nothing and would gladly sell my expectations for a hundred roubles, the prince took me at my word and gave me the amount immediately.

He begged me to come and dine with him every day, paid me the roubles for the month due, and assured me that he had honoured my bill drawn at Mitau.

He also found me a reliable servant, and a carriage at eighteen roubles, or six ducats per month.

I had a year, and on my replying, at a hazard, three thousand roubles, he gave me the rank of general, and I was allowed to pass.

As I was praising the noble calmness with which a certain prince had lost a thousand roubles to him, he laughed and said that the fine gamester I had mentioned played upon credit but never paid.

I will give the hundred roubles, and I promise you I will not treat her as a slave.

I never heard what became of him after he left Russia, where he obliged me with the loan of five hundred roubles, which I have not yet been able to return to him.

Lizaveta Prohorovna received a deposit of a hundred roubles and two hundred went to Kirillovna for her assistance.

Yesterday he promised me five roubles and today he gives me nothing and goes away.

The suspicious characters had disappeared completely and with them the stolen government money had vanished, too, one thousand, nine hundred and seventeen roubles and some kopecks, in paper and gold.

Likewise I was aware, in part, of a family secret--namely, that, last year, the Frenchman had bailed the General out of debt, and given him 30,000 roubles wherewith to pay his Treasury dues on retiring from the service.

Today I have squandered fifteen thousand roubles at that accursed roulette of yours, and though, five years ago, I promised the people of a certain suburb of Moscow to build them a stone church in place of a wooden one, I have been fooling away my money here!

Grandmother lost, that day, a total of ninety thousand roubles, in addition to the money which she had lost the day before.

Oh, how gladly I could throw those fifty thousand roubles in his face, and spit in it, and then rub the spittle in!