Patrioticheskaya Pesnya

Патриотическая Песня

English: The Patriotic Song
Patrioticheskaya Pesnya
anthem of	Russia
Music	Mikhail Glinka
Adopted	23 November 1990
Until	27 December 2000
Music sample
The Patriotic Song

"The Patriotic Song" (Russian: Патриотическая Песня; "Patrioticheskaya Pesnya"; also translatable as "A Patriotic Song") was the national anthem of the Russian SFSR and of Russia from 1990 to 2000.

History

The song originally was not a song but a composition for piano without lyrics, written by Mikhail Glinka and entitled in French, "Motif de chant national." The song has been confused with the closing chorus of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, probably because both begin with the same word ("Slav'sya"), but the two compositions are unrelated (though the operatic music, too, has been suggested as a candidate for the Russian national anthem).

The tune of this instrumental anthem, which was chosen by Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s and favored by the Russian Orthodox church, went without lyrics for several years. In 1999 a contest to provide suitable words for the anthem was won by Viktor Radugin with his poem "Славься, Россия!" ("Slav'sya, Rossiya!"; "Be glorious, Russia!"). Having never become popular enough, however, Glinka's anthem was replaced soon after Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin, took office. Putin preferred the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, which the legislature approved in December, 2000, with Putin's signature and modified lyrics, and it is now the national anthem of Russia.

Unofficial lyrics to "Славься, Россия!" by Viktor Radugin

Nad otchiznoi velichavo

"Nad Otcziznoi Velichavo" (Above the Great Motherland) by Vladimir Kalinkin, written in 1998 was another proposed set of lyrics. Performed by honored Russian artist Vladimir Detayov, the Duma was made aware of this piece's existence in April, 1999. At the initiative of the Ministry of National Policy of Russia, this record was first publicly presented at the First Congress of the Assembly of Peoples of Russia. During the summer of that year, the anthem was performed on the radio station "Radio of Russia" and the TV channel "Moskoviya", devoted to writing the text of the anthem of the country.

In January 2000, was carried out in a new orchestral arrangement demo studio recording of this project anthem performed by the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments Russia it. NP Osipova and the Russian State Academic Choir of them. AV Sveshnikov. Overall the song received very positive reviews, although like "Slav'sya Rossiya", never attained official status.

Unofficial lyrics to "Над Отчизной величаво!" by В. М. Калинкин (V.M. Kalinkin)

See also

• National Anthem of Russia
• National Anthem of the Soviet Union

External links

• Russian National Anthems, including the score for Glinka's tune
• Russian Anthems Museum, including MP3 recordings of Glinka's anthem with and without words
• Glinka - the author of Russian national anthem in Russian. by K.Kovalev - Eng. Bortniansky's anthem "Kol slaven" - Eng.

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