What is its meaning and what does its colors represent?
The flag of Russia It is one of the symbols that represent the Russian Federation internationally.the largest country on the planet.
The flag of Russia It is a tricolor composed of three stripes of the same size distributed horizontally, in a ratio of 2:3. Its colors, from top to bottom, are white, blue and red.
The current flag has been used since the 17th century, since the times of Emperor Peter ‘the Great’, considered the father of the Russian flag.
It was this ruler who would decree that all Russian commercial ships hoist the white, blue and red flag, colors that would later be used by other Slavic countries, as a symbol of Pan-Slavism.
However, it was only the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, whose reign extended from 1894 to 1917, the year of the revolution and the fall of the Russian Empire, who made the tricolor emblem official as a Russian national symbol.
It is worth remembering that, after the revolution, the official flag would be replaced by another whose most remembered design today is that with a red background, which in the upper left part has a crossed hammer and sickle, above which is a star . These three yellow elements. This flag is a symbol of the years of Soviet communism.
However, with the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the old Russian imperial flag will be officially resumed on December 11, 1993.
He Russian National Flag Day is celebrated on August 22since it was this day, in 1991, when it was flown again in Moscow.
Meaning of the colors of the Russian flag
Different meanings are associated with the origin of the colors of the Russian flag.
One theory says that white represents freedom and independence; blue, the mother of God, protector of Russia, and red, sovereignty.
Another theory surmises that, in reality, white symbolizes peace, purity and perfection; blue, faith and fidelity, and red, energy, power and blood shed for the country.
It is also said that the colors come from an explanation of the universe, according to which at the bottom there would be the material world (red), above it, the heavens (blue), and, finally, at the top, the divine (white). .
Likewise, it is said that what the colors actually represent are the three Slavic peoples of the Soviet Union: the Belarusians, the Ukrainians and the Russians.
See also Tsarism and USSR.