Coat of arms of Russia

Coat of arms of Russia
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ArmigerRussian Federation
Adopted30 November 1993 (current version)
ShieldGules, a double-headed eagle displayed, twice imperially crowned, grasping in the dexter claw an imperial sceptre, and in the sinister claw an imperial orb, all Or; in chief another larger imperial crown with issuant and pendent therefrom a ribbon, also Or; the eagle is charged on the breast with an escutcheon Gules, Saint George slaying the dragon.

The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire. Though modified more than once since the reign of Ivan III (1462–1505), the current coat of arms is directly derived from its medieval original, with the double-headed eagle having Byzantine and earlier antecedents. The general tincture corresponds to the fifteenth-century standard.[1]

  1. ^ Hellberg-Hirn, Elena (2020). Soil and Soul: The Symbolic World of Russianness. Routledge. pp. 16–35. ISBN 9780429026263.

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