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Flag of Russia

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The Flag of Russia is the tricolour of Pan-Slavic colors. It consists of three equal horisontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom.

Moscow Coat of Arms

When Peter the Great visited the Netherlands in 1699 in order to learn about shipbuilding, he realised the need for Russia to have a flag for its navy too. So, he based the plan of the flag of Russia on the Flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange-white-blue, it had no red). He chose colors of coat of arms of the Duchy of Moscow, which had Saint George, having white armour, riding a white horse, wearing a blue cape and holding a blue shield, on red field.

This flag became the official flag of Russia on May 7th 1883. When Bolsheviks took power in 1917 they changed the flag until August 21st 1991 when it became the official flag of the Russia again.

The flag of Russia is the source of Pan-Slavic colors.

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