The man responsible for the whole enchilada. That’s Peter the Great.
A glimpse of the ‘Aurora’, the battleship that fired the blank shot that that signalled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace and therefore the October Revolution, It’s a museum nowadays.
The ship was flying the Russian Federation flag, the Naval ensign and the Naval Jack. They were all designed by Peter the Great, a man with very limited imagination - according to our guide. The countries he most admired were Holland, England and Scotland. So he used the Dutch Flag placed upside down as the Russian flag, the Scottish Saltire but with a white cross of Saint Andrew on blue for the navy - the naval ensign - and a slightly modified Union Jack for the military - the Russian naval jack.
