Patrioticheskaya pesnya

Infobox Anthem
title = Патриотическая Песня
transcription = Patrioticheskaya Pesnya
english_title = The Patriotic Song
prefix =
country = flagicon|Russia|1991 flag|Russia
composer = Mikhail Glinka
adopted = 1991
until = 2000
sound = Patrioticheskaya Pesnya.ogg
sound_title = The Patriotic Song"The Patriotic Song" ( _ru. 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

It was originally a piano piece without lyrics, written by Mikhail Glinka, with the French title "Motif de chant national." Some have confused this piece with the closing chorus of Glinka's opera "A Life for the Tsar", probably because both begin with the same word "Slav'sja," but the two compositions are unrelated (indeed, the opera music has been suggested as another candidate for a Russian anthem as well).

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 over. Putin preferred the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, which was approved by the legislature in December 2000, with Putin's signature and modified lyrics, which is now the National Anthem of Russia.

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

ee also

* National Anthem of Russia
* National Anthem of the Soviet Union

External links

* [http://home.planet.nl/~jschoone/ru.html Russian National Anthems, including the score for Glinka's tune]
* [http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html Russian Anthems Museum, including MP3 recordings of Glinka's anthem with and without words]
* [http://www.kkovalev.ru/Glinka.htm Glinka - the author of Russian national anthem] in Russian. [http://www.kkovalev.ru/english.htm by K.Kovalev] - Eng. [http://www.kkovalev.ru/Bortniansky-eng.htm Bortniansky's anthem "Kol slaven"] - Eng.