This was the livery in which the Tu-144 was presented to the world.
Only the prototype wore it because the aircraft was completely re-designed later.

Year	Operator
1968	Tupolev Design Bureau (prototype)
Aircraft	Illustration
CCCP-68001	Copyright Andrius Vrasinskas
Place and date	Picture
Berlin, June 1971	Copyright Archive Planeboys-1971
Variant		Detail
On her maiden flight and followed months the rudder seemed unpainted.