What is the double headed eagle holding in its beaks and claws?
>>17409529He’s holding different maps of seas bordering Russia, to illustrate the wide expanse and reach of Russia. I recognize some as the black sea, the caspian sea, and the baltic sea. The other might be sea up in the arctic, whatever that one’s called.
>>17409536Thank you anon!Yea, I thought that the lower left represented the Black Sea.
>>17409529https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtandart_(frigate,_1999)>On January 22, 1702, at the height of the Third Northern War, Peter the Great ordered the construction of the Shtandart (Russian: Штaндapтъ). The ship, a 28-gun frigate, was the first part of Russia's later Baltic Fleet. She was responsible for repelling the Swedish naval attack on Saint Petersburg in 1705.>The original was designed by Peter the Great himself, after his trip to Netherlands and England. Completed in August 1703 by the Dutch master Vibe Gerense and then, with Peter as captain, sailed to St. Petersburg to be baptized. The ship was named Shtandart, after a new Royal standard showing all four seas to which Russia now had access.
>>17409942Remember that Saint Petersburg was built on Finnish indigenous land
>>17410096Wow, that's pretty embarrassing for the Finns that they let themselves get conquered!
>>17410096They weren't doing anything with it.
>>17409942Much obliged.
>>17409942Russian wiki explains it even better>The name "Standart" was given in honor of Russia's conquest of access to the Baltic Sea . >Until May 1703, the double-headed eagle on the Tsar's standard was depicted with maps of three seas: the White , Caspian , and Azov . >After the Russian troops captured the fortress of Nyenskans and thus opened access to the Baltic Sea, a fourth map of the Baltic Sea appeared on the standard. In honor of this event, the first frigate of the Baltic Fleet received its name "Standart".
