In common usage, Russian Empire banknotes were often named after their color. Yellow — 1 ruble. "Anna took out three yellow papers from her purse" (Saltykov-Shchedrin's "The Golovlyov Family"). Green — 3 rubles. In Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," "the official gave Katerina Ivanovna a three-ruble green note." Blue — 5 rubles. Chichikov promises Korobochka 15 rubles "in blue notes." Red — 10 rubles. In Tolstoy's "Resurrection," Katyusha Maslova shows the court that she "took four red ones." White — 25 rubles. "I'll take a white one for the landscape," says the art dealer in Gogol's "The Portrait." Rainbow — 100 rubles. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov dropped "three rainbow papers in the mud." Gray — 200 rubles. In Herzen's "My Past and Thoughts," the secretary who received a bribe declares, "Well, it's gray, all the better, let the other petitioners see, it will encourage them when they find out I took 200 rubles, but I settled the matter."