In 1552, Russian troops were on the victorious assault on Kazan under the banner of "Merciful Savior." In the chronicle records of the siege of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible (1552) says, "and told the Emperor herugvi razvertiti Christian, that is to say the banner on their image of our Lord Jesus Christ, not made with hands, and hoisted up on life-giving cross, others like baa at his grandparent, our sovereign, of Great dostohvalnogo Prince Dmitry on the Don. "Banner of Ivan the Terrible and a half centuries was accompanied by the Russian army. When the queen Sophia Alekseevne it visited in the Crimean campaigns, and under Peter I - in the Azov campaign and the war against the Swedes.
In the Personal chronicles plotting banner of Ivan the Terrible in Kazan campaign - forked white with the image of the Savior and the eight-pointed cross on it. According to others the banner (probably regiment) was red with a picture of the Savior. A copy of this banner, many times restored, still kept in the Kremlin Armoury.
Is well-known so-called "Great banner" Ivan the Terrible. This flag in the form of a trapezoid (with slope). Flagstaff on azure field depicts Saint Michael on the horse. On the slope of "sugar" color depicts Christ. Banner has a rim "cranberry color", in addition slope fringe "poppy" colors.
In 1612, over the host, which came from Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow, waved the banner of Dmitry Pozharsky. It was crimson, and on one of its side bore the image of the Lord Almighty, and on the other - the Archangel Michael. Militia led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky put an end to the Troubles, the liberation of the Polish-Lithuanian rule and liberated Moscow from invaders. Enemies and traitors to Russia were expelled, and the Russian state is restored. Banner of Prince Pozharsky, upon the occurrence of peacetime was placed in the church and revered equally with icons. In the terrible year of Napoleon's invasion with banner Pozharsky was made and presented to an exact copy of the Nizhny Novgorod militia.
Religious subjects depicted and other royal banner. On the red banner of Alexei Mikhailovich, for example, depicted the face of the Savior.