Russia Flag

The flag of the Russian Federation was adopted in 1993. Many people think it’s recent, and believe it was created at the fall of the USSR in 1991, but it is not. In reality, this flag exists since its creation by Tsar Peter the Great around 1700. It was modelled on the flag of the Netherlands at the time. The Russian flag then underwent many modifications. From the representation of Saint George slaying the dragon (also a great English symbol) to the adoption of the Cross of St. Andrew, religious symbols were very present on Russian flags. Only in 1921, with the arrival of the Bolsheviks, the political aspect radically transforms the Russian flag. It then becomes the creation of the USSR, red (symbol of communism), with a hammer and sickle crossed in the canton (upper left corner to the shaft) and a star above. When the communist regime fell, the Russian flag was rehabilitated as that of Peter the Great, as a symbol of the return of the great Russia.