Russian tricolor

[Alina Israeli]

>Robert K. Massie in "Peter the Great" tells the story: When Peter first
>saw his first ship, delivered by Dutch sailors and with the Dutch tricolor
>waving, he just loved it all and decided to use the same flag - just
>upside down !

Impossible! Dutch stripes are horizontal (so are Russian). If you turn it
upside down you get a French flag!

Russian is in different order and blue being ligher (goluboj).

__________________________
 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
 4400 Mass. Ave., NW
 Washington, DC 20016

 phone:    (202) 885-2387
 fax:      (202) 885-1076 

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