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![[Russian flag in 1914]](../images/r/ru_1914.gif)
According to Smith [smi75],
the white-blue-red tricolor with a canton of the imperial
arms was introduced by imperial decree on 19 November
1914. It replaced the black-orange-white
tricolor, which had been the civil flag since 1858, and
also the plain white-blue-red
tricolor.
The 1914 civil flag disappeared in 1917 when the
monarchy was abolished. The plain
white-blue-red
tricolor then became the nation's de facto national
flag. However, it was never officially adopted as such
— Kerensky's government had too much else on its mind!
Tom Gregg, 21 Mar 1999