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"God Save the Tsar! " (Russian: Боже, Царя храни! , IPA: [ˈboʐɨ tsɐˈrʲa xrɐˈnʲi] ) was the national anthem of the Russian Empire . The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 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. In 1833, "The Prayer of Russians" was replaced with "God Save the Tsar".
"God Save the Tsar!" was performed for the first time on 8 December 1833, at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. It was later played at the Winter Palace on Christmas Day, by order of Nicholas I. Public singing of the anthem began at opera houses in 1834, but it was not widely known across the Russian Empire until 1837. [12] "God Save the Tsar!"
(Reuters) - "God save the Tsar!" was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who has been Russia's paramount leader for nearly quarter of a ...
He is known for his work — the composition of the Imperial Russian National Anthem Bozhe, tsarya khrani (also known as God Save the Tsar). He wrote the opera Undine in 1846. He was entombed in the Pažaislis Monastery, Kaunas .
The "Anthem of His Majesty the Tsar", [a] also known as "God Save the Tsar", [b] was the royal anthem of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1908 to 1944. The original music was written by Emil von Sauer. [1] Later the composition by Emanuil Manolov was adopted, and the lyrics were written by Major General Georgi Agura.
The vampire tsar is sucking the life out of you, The vampire tsar drinks the people's blood. He needs soldiers for his army. Give him sons. He needs feasts and chambers. Give him your blood. Refrain Isn't eternal sorrow enough? Let's rise up, brothers, everywhere at once. From the Dnieper to the White Sea, And the Volga and the Far Caucasus.
The Festival Coronation March in D major, TH 50, ČW 47, is an orchestral work by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ordered by the city of Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Alexander III in 1883. It was written during March 1883 and performed for the first time on June 4 [O.S. May 23], 1883 in Sokolniki Park (Moscow), conducted by Sergei Taneyev. [1]