And even after its fall, Russian rulers wanted to associate Russia with the Byzantine symbol,” Yevgeny Pchelov explained. In Russia, the double-headed eagle was always accompanied by another ...

It is “Byzantine.” The eagle was, if we travel 1,800 years back in time, the imperial symbol of the Byzantine Empire. It is still at the core of Orthodox Christianity — Greek, Russian ...

Originally the symbol of Imperial Russia, the double-headed eagle was restored as the country’s official emblem in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But how did this ...