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"The Prayer of Russians" [a] is a patriotic hymn that was used as the national anthem of Imperial Russia from 1816 to 1833. After defeating the First French Empire, Tsar Alexander I of Russia recommended a national anthem for Russia. The lyrics were written by Vasily Zhukovsky, and the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" was used.
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (Russian: Литургия Иоанна Златоуста), is a 1910 musical work by Sergei Rachmaninoff, one of his two major unaccompanied choral works (the other being his All-Night Vigil). The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is the primary worship service of the Eastern Orthodox Church. [1]
Russian Liturgical Music is the musical tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This tradition began with the importation of the Byzantine Empire's religious music when the Kievan Rus' converted to Orthodoxy in 988.
Eventually, the German version reached Russia where a Russian version entitled "Velikiy Bog" (Великий Бог - 'Great God') [37] was produced in 1912 by Ivan S. Prokhanov (1869–1935), [38] the "Martin Luther of Russia", [9] and "the most prolific Protestant hymn writer and translator in all of Russia" at that time [7] in a Russian ...
Be glorious, our Great Russian People. Enemies, encroached on Native land, Strike down mercilessly with a mighty hand. Glory, glory, Heroes of the soldiers, The homeland of our brave sons. Glory! Praise, praise to the troops! Here it is, our Kremlin! With him all Russia and the whole world! Sing the whole world! Rejoice, Russian people! Sing ...
In the modern Russian Federation, it is performed in military ceremonies when honoring - at the opening of monuments, farewell to servicemen and at burial. [ 5 ] The text of the hymn is based on the 48th Psalm and is replete with Christian symbolism, and its music is close to individual Voices of the Great Znamenny Chant .
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Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow, also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov, Tchesnokoff, and Chesnokoff) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher.