Russia marks its National Flag Day on August 22The holiday was introduced in 1994 by a presidential decreeThe national flag of #Russia, a tricolor of three horizontal bands of white (top), blue (middle), and red (bottom), originated under Peter the Great, and it was originally used on merchant shipsIn 1896, the tricolor was officially recognized as the national flag of the #Russian EmpireThe tricolor was replaced with the red flag in the Soviet era