Flag of the Russian Empire

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  "g": "h,fn,europe",
  "ns": "russia-hist",
  "name": "Imperial Russia",
  "now": "russia",
  "years": "1858–1917",
  "id": "ru-imperial",
  "index": "c/russia:1858",
  "title": "Flag of the Russian Empire",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "cmyk": "0/0/0/100",
      "note": "The double-headed eagle of the Romanov dynasty."
    },
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#ffcc00",
      "cmyk": "0/20/100/0",
      "note": "The golden field of the imperial arms."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "cmyk": "0/0/0/0",
      "note": "Purity and the Russian Orthodox tradition."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Russian Empire's official flag (1858–1917) was a black-yellow-white tricolour\n - The more familiar white-blue-red merchant flag was also widely used\n - **Construction:** three equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow (middle), and white (bottom)\n - Used as the national flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1896, then replaced by the white-blue-red tricolour",
  "flag": "russia-hist/ru-imperial.svg",
  "of": {
    "country": "russia"
  },
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Russia",
    "officialName": "Russian Empire",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "cs": "russia-hist/ru-imperial.cs.svg",
  "trivia": "- The Imperial Russian flag represented the Russian Empire until the 1917 revolution\n - The white-blue-red colours became the basis for modern Russian flag\n - Established by Peter the Great",
  "article": "russia-hist/ru-imperial.md",
  "_name": "Imperial Russia",
  "_namespace": "russia-hist",
  "_namePart": "ru-imperial"
}