Tsar’s Personal Flags (original) (raw)

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Personal Standard of the Tsar
Emperor Standard Ashore (1858-1917)
Emperor Standard afloat (1858-1917)
Russian Czar Paul I (c. 1800)
Personal Standard of the Tsar in Moscow
Personal Standard of the Tsar in Aleksandriâ
Flags of Ivan IV, “the terrible” See also:
Personal flags of other Royal Family members
Russian Empire
Russia

Personal Standard of the Tsar

image by Arnaud Palac and António Martins, 12 Dec 1999

This is the personal Standard of the Tsar.
Jaume Ollé, 21 Jul 1998

Golden flag with black coat of arms with four scrolls: Vessel standard (1699-1917)
Željko Heimer, 03 Apr 1999, quoting from Flag-znamya korablya, Russian Navy website, consulted 07 Mar 1999

Only one Emperor’s Standard (yellow with black eagle with maps in his claws) existed in times of Catherine the Great. She used it. Kostroma (city on Volga River) have the arms: «Azure, a ship of Catherine the Great with Emperor’s Standard on main-mast».
Victor Lomantsov, 02 Jun 2000

Broad Pennant

image by Arnaud Palac and Victor Lomantsov, 30 May 2000

Broad-pennant of Emperor — swallow-tailed, emperor’s standard at the hoist, white at the fly.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 May 2000

Emperor Standard ashore (1858-1917)

image by Mario Fabretto, and António Martins, 14 Dec 1999

This is the Russian Emperor Standard. It should had been adopted toward 1858 and this is the version used ashore.
Mario Fabretto, 17 Jul 1998

Emperor Standard Afloat (1858-1917)

image by Mario Fabretto, and António Martins, 14 Dec 1999

The Tsar’s standard afloat is the same as ashore but with red background.
Jaume Ollé, 21 Jul 1998

Russian Czar Paul I (c1800)

image located by William Garrison, 03 January 2013

Russian Imperial Army Regimental "Color" Banner of One of the Life-Guards' Regiments From the Reign of Pavel I, Circa 1800. (source)
Description:
The silk banner roughly square, the center with the Imperial double-headed eagle in semi-profile with one raised wing and one lowered wing and with lightning bolts in its talons, set within ribbon tied laurel wreaths beneath the devices "God is with us" and "Bliss" and surmounted by the Imperial crown, the corners with the mirror Russian/Maltese monograms, also within ribbon-tied laurel wreaths. Measurements: 56 ½ x 57 ½ in.; 144 x 146 cm
In 1797, Emperor Paul I instituted a large scale reform of the Russian army and government that had important implications for Russian heraldry and military regalia. Among these changes was the institution of new types of banners for military regiments. Every Life-Guards' Regiment received one "White" and several "Color" banners of new design. The Russian / Maltese monogram was added and the image of the Imperial eagle was radically changed to closely resemble that of the Prussian Army. This banner could have belonged to any of the three Life-Guards' Regiments existent during the reign of Paul I: the Preobrazhensky, Semyonovsky, or Izmailovsky, since all Life-Guards' Regiments received the same type of banner, differentiated only by the colors of their poles. Prior to Paul I's accession to the throne, each new Russian monarch would discard the army's existing regalia in order to substitute designs pleasing to the new ruler. Paul definitively changed this rule, declaring that all flags and banners were to remain in service indefinitely. It is therefore possible that the offered lot was in use well after Paul's assassination in 1801, and even during the battles of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805-1814.
On this design, see A.V. Viskovatov, Istoricheskoe opisanie odezhdy i vooruzheniia rossiiskikh voisk, vol. 9, St. Petersburg, 1841-1862, ill. 1257 and V.V. Zvegintsov, Znamena i Shtandarty Russkoi Armii, Paris, 1964, p. 25.
William Garrison, 03 January 2013

Looking like original banner of 1800... In 1800 this type of banners was granted to 3 regiments. Full amount of banners - 47: 19 - to Life-Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment, 14 - to Life-Guard Semenovsky Regiment, 14 - to Life-Guard Izmailovsky Regiment.
Victor Lomantsov, 04 January 2013

Personal Standard of the Tsar in Moscow (1693-1699)

image by Arnaud Palac and António Martins, 12 Dec 1999

The Tsar’s standard in Moscow is the same as the normal one but white, blue, red horizontal stripes background.
Jaume Ollé, 21 Jul 1998

I’m not so sure it is the one. The eagle should be yellow and not black with maps (“naval version”). Russian tricolour with golden coat of arms allover: The first vessel standard "Moscow Tsar Flag" (1693-1699).
Željko Heimer, 03 Apr 1999, summarizing fromFlag-znamya korablya, Russian Navy website, consulted 07 Mar 1999

Symbolism of Andreevsky Flag was also Peter’s contribution to his father — tsar Alexei Mikhailovich who instituted the special flag - dark red two-headed eagle on white-blue-red cloth — for the first military Russian vessel — three-mast galiot Eagle.
Edward Mooney, 14 Mar 1999, quoting from Russian Navy website

In one of the worlds first flagbooks, compiled by Carel Allard (from Amsterdam) in 1695 [ala95], shows three Russian flags:

horizontal white-blue-red, over all (shifted to the hoist) a golden double headed eagle with a red shield (with St.George, without the dragon) on its chest and a golden crown over its heads. Caption: Czar of Moscovia.
horizontal white-blue-red, over all a blue saltire. Ratio of the flag aprox. 1:3. Caption:Other flag of Czar of Moscovia. (See here.)
quarterly red and white, a blue cross over all. Caption: another Moscovian flag. (See here.) Mark Sensen, 25 Nov 1998, quoting [sie96]

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Personal Standard of the Tsar in Aleksandriâ

image by Victor Lomantsov, 20 Jul 2000

Also exists a Tsar Standard (and pennant) for his rural house of Alexandrina: white with emblem (white bordered black shield, vertical sword, ring of wreath).
Jaume Ollé, 21 Jul 1998

Flag for “The Alexandria”, a personal summer-cottage of Emperor. White flag with arms: Azure, a Sword in pale Argent hilted Or and decored with a round Wreath of flowers and leaves.
Victor Lomantsov, 20 Jul 2000

Alexandria Broad Pennant

image by Victor Lomantsov, 20 Jul 2000

Broad-pennant for “The Alexandria”, a personal summer-cottage of Emperor. The same designbut swallow-tailed and long.
Victor Lomantsov, 20 Jul 2000

Flags of Ivan IV, “the terrible”

image by António Martins, 22 Jan 2003, from The Cultural Atlas of Russia

I have book called The Cultural Atlas of Russia which shows a flag of Ivan VI which is called the flag at Kazan.
Steve Stringfellow, 23 and 27 Aug 1999

It is a dark top heavy trapezoid, with the refered icon painted on the hoist part and a roughly regular arrangement of light five stars and two couped crosses on the tappering fly. As said, the now faded colors are disputed (it is a black-and-white photo).
António Martins, 21 Jan 2003

This flag is totally different than the one in Smith’s 1975 big book [smi75c]. So, the question is: what flag did Ivan IV have?
Steve Stringfellow, 23 and 27 Aug 1999

I confess that I have no idea: Ivan the terrible was the first Muscovy prince to use the title of Tsar (from latin "CAESAR", in Russian "carh | царь"), after getting rid of Mongol / Tatar domination and having submitted to his own personal power the other Russian princes (Tver, Kiev, Novgorod, etc.) — hence «Tsar of all Russias». This happend in a historical period when heraldry wasn’t yet really set in Russia (it come somewhat later, after Italian, German and French influences), and I guess that Ivan’s flag would have much more to do with Mongol Khan’s regalia, than to the usual symbols of a westerner monarch. This image seems to confirm it.
António Martins, 24 Aug 1999

Ivan IV, the Terrible (1530-1584), often considered as the founder of the modern Russian Empire. He was the first to adopt the title of czar (from Latin Caesar, since Moscow was supposed to be the third Rome — replacing Rome and Byzance) and increased the Russian territory by conquering the Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.
Ivan Sache, 01 Oct 2000