Russia Mount Athos 41633 Greek Drachmai 1937 St Andrew Monastery

The payment order was issued to the head Russian Orthodox Monastic Administration on Mount Athos (R.A.S.) in Greece; very rare Russian religious and financial document; Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Hellenic Republic, namely the monastic community of Mount Athos under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; XF