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The nation of Russia has designed and used various flags throughout history. Listed in this article are flags — federal, administrative, military, etc. — used between the time of the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721), Russian Empire (1721–1917) and today's Russian Federation (1991–present day).
Tsar Alexander II's Flag of the Russian Empire (1858–1896) Russian flag during WWI on a postcard (1914–1917) [a] The Russian tricolour flag was adopted as a merchant flag at rivers in 1705. These colours of the flag of Russia would later inspire the choice of the "Pan-Slavic colours" by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848.
c. 1700: 1860 1916 1916 1932 1936 1949 1971 Qatar: Romania: 1330 1834 1848 1859 1862 1867 1948 1948 1952 1965 1989 1989 Romania: 1396 1834 Russia: 1668 1696 1858 1914 1917 1922 1924 1924 1936 1955 1993 Russia: 1918 1918 1937 1954 1991 Rwanda: 1885 1919 1959 1961 1962 2001 Rwanda: Saint Kitts and Nevis: 1626 1713 1801 1871 1958 1962 1967 1983 ...
The symbolism of the flag is a tribute to his father, Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, who established a special flag for the first Russian naval ship, the three-masted frigate Oryol. In 1699 on the draft of the tsar's instruction to Yemelyan Ukraintsev concerning protocol issues of the Russian embassy to the Ottoman Empire there is a white-blue ...
The Tsardom of Russia, [a] also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, [b] was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi) per year. [11]
The Russian Federation has several official national symbols including a historical document, a flag, an emblem, a national anthem. The current design of the national flag is the same as the Russian Empire and was officially adopted again after the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
Company flag taken by the Swedes at the Battle of Narva in 1700. The Semyonovsky Lifeguard Regiment (Russian: Семёновский лейб-гвардии полк, Semyonovsky leyb-gvardii polk) was one of the two oldest guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army. The other one was the Preobrazhensky Regiment.
Black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire (1858-1896) White-blue-red flag of the Russian Empire (1896-1917) This page was last edited on 27 ...