| The skins of the sea otter are much prized by the Chinese, who pay for them from seventy to one hundred roubles a-piece. |
| It stands the Government in about a rouble the arshin, and sells for two roubles. |
| Not I, seeing that I have had two and a half roubles per soul squeezed out of me by a brute of a kulak! |
| It is a singular fact that tsarist roubles are worth ten times as much as Soviet roubles, and are much commoner in the country. |
| I gave you two roubles last time for your ring and one could buy it quite new at a jeweler's for a rouble and a half. |
| The Russian broker pays for them in roubles, which are converted into dollars by the U.S. broker. |
