Patriotic song
The Patriotic Song ( Russian Патриотическая песня / "Patriotitscheskaja Pesnja") was the Russian national anthem from 1990 to 2000 . The composition is a piano work by Michail Glinka . Occasionally the hymn was confused with the final chorus of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar because of a similar text , but the compositions are different. Independently of this, this same opera choir was proposed as the new Russian anthem.
The song was selected as the anthem of the Russian SFSR in 1990, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union . In 1999 a competition was announced to find a text for the hymn, which Victor Radugin with his text Славься, Россия! ("Be praised Russia!") Won. However, this text never became an official part of the anthem, as the new President Vladimir Putin , who has ruled since the beginning of 2000, advocated a return to the melody of the old Soviet anthem with the new anthem of the Russian Federation .
In the mid-1980s, the song served as the opening melody of the Pervy Canal news program Vremja .
Unofficial text for “ Славься, Россия! “By Wiktor Radugin
Russian | transcription | translation |
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Славься, славься, родина - Россия! |
Slavsja, slavsja, rodina - Rossija! |
Be praised, be praised, native Russia ! |
See also
Web links
- Russian national anthems including notes to Glinka's melody
- Russian Anthem Museum including MP3 recordings of Glinka's anthem