Andreevsky flag biography

And a year before, he also established the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First -Called - a golden cross with blue ribbons and an eight -pointed star, which became the highest award of the Russian state. Thus, the king wanted to perpetuate the name of the Apostle Andrei, with whom the adoption of Christianity in Rus' is associated.

Over the next two decades, the appearance of the flag and its status has been finalized. Finally, all this was fixed by the ship's charter of the year: "The white flag, through which the blue cross of St. Andrew, for the sake of the fact that Russia was accepted from this Apostle Holy Baptism." This is a white canvas with a blue cross, reminiscent of the letter “X”, according to legend, according to such a cross in the Greek city of Patra, the Apostle Andrei took a martyr's death, became one of the most recognizable flags in the history of our country.

It was underneath that important geographical discoveries were made, under it many generations of Russian sailors went into battle. For many centuries, the Andreevsky flag became the main and most revered banner in the Russian Navy. The length of the flag could reach four meters. As a result, the giant banner, when it fluttered in the wind, published a terrible roar, which was a kind of mental attack on the enemy.

Such a tradition has also developed: before the battle, to raise the fighting spirit of the team, the captains certainly repeated the same phrase: “God and the Andreevsky flag with us! Another version of the banner appeared in the year - the St. George Admiral Flag. It was a Andreyevsky flag, in the center of which a red heraldic shield was placed with a canonical image of St.

George. The crew, as indicated in the description of the flag, “showed exceptional courage and courage in achieving victory or in protecting the honor of the naval flag.” "Mercury", under the command of Lieutenant Captain Alexander of Kazarsky, defeating in unequal battle with two Turkish battleships during the Russian-Turkish war. The ship's charter of Peter I prescribed to protect the Andreevsky flag "to the last drop of blood." This instruction was strictly observed.

Throughout the history of the Russian fleet, only twice the flag was lowered voluntarily. The first time - in May of the year, when the commander of the cannon frigate "Rafail" captain of the 2nd rank Semen Stroynikov to save the life of the crew, lowered the flag in front of the Turkish squadron of 15 ships. The reckoning for cowardice was stiff. According to the emperor Nicholas I, the Frigate, which went over to the enemy, was ordered to be burned.

This happened, however, only after 24 years, in the Sinop battle. And the name "Raphael" has never been used for Russian ships. Captain Stroynikov, who returned from captivity, was deprived of awards and titles and was unclenched into simple sailors. He was even forbidden to marry, "in order not to have the offspring of a coward and a traitor in Russia." But the irony of history is that by that time he had already had two sons.

And both of them subsequently became the counter-admirals of the domestic fleet. The second time the Andreevsky flag was launched in the year, at the end of the Tsushima battle, by order of Rear Admiral Nevogatov. He also, like Stroynikov, wanted to save the life of the remaining sailors and officers, for which he was deprived of all ranks, devoted to the court and sentenced to death, replaced by 10 years of imprisonment.

Negogatov served from them only two and a few years and was pardoned. The Andreevsky flag developed on the masts of Russian ships until November. Then the sailors gathered for the first All -Russian Congress of the Navy and decided to raise the red flag of the International on all ships instead of Andreevsky. The last Andreevsky flags were launched in the year on ships of the Squaders of the White Army in the port of Bisert in North Africa.

The flag of the Navy of the Soviet period was modified several times. On the white part, a five -pointed star and a red -colored sickle and a hammer were depicted. Perhaps the most gloomy page in the history of the Andreevsky flag was its use by collaborators from the Russian liberation army of ROA General Vlasov, who fought on the side of the Nazis. Subscribe to us in DZEN news about the past and reports about the present.