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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 .
12 December [O.S. 29 November] 1904 - Emanuel Schiffers, Russian chess player (b. 1850) Maria A. Neidgardt, courtier (b. 1831) References Media related to 1904 ...
White-blue-red flag of the Russian Empire (1896-1917) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flag of the Russian Empire .
Map of the federal subjects of Russia with their flags. This gallery of flags of federal subjects of Russia shows the flags of the 89 federal subjects of Russia including two regions that, while being de facto under complete Russian control, are not internationally recognized as part of Russia (Republic of Crimea [1] and the city of Sevastopol), [1] and four regions that, while not being fully ...
Blue and red flags with St. Andrew's flag in the cantons were abolished in 1732–43, 1764–97 (finally abolished in 1865). In 1819 St. George's ensign was established as a reward flag — St. Andrew's flag with the image of St. George placed on a red shield in the centre. It was awarded to the line ship Azov (1827) and the brig Mercurii (1829).
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
English: Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 1954-1991. Eesti: VNFSV lipp, 1954-1991 aa. Suomi: VSFNT lippu, 1954-1991.