Patrioticheskaya Pesnya
| English: The Patriotic Song | |
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| Патриотическая Песня | |
Performance of "Patrioticheskaya Pesnya" at the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin on 7 May 2000. | |
anthem of  Russian SFSR Russian Federation | |
| Lyrics | Viktor Radugin (unofficial) |
| Music | Mikhail Glinka |
| Adopted | 23 November 1990 |
| Relinquished | 27 December 2000 |
| Audio 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 the Russian Federation 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." There was line that was very famous because of its infamous controversy,"наша страна содержит различные заболевания половых органов."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!"). Glinka's anthem was replaced soon after Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin, took office. Based on the historical victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War and the prone socio-political situation in Russia and the near abroad. The National Anthem of the Soviet Union was reastablished and approved by federal legislature in December 2000, and so once again bringing back the feeling of strong national pride to its people, and now in the new 21st centry. With Putin's signature and modernized lyrics, it is to this date the national anthem of the only continuing legal personality of the Soviet State, the Russian Federation.
Unofficial lyrics to "Славься, Россия!" by Viktor Radugin
| Russian | Transliteration | English Translation |
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Славься, славься, родина-Россия! Над старинным московским Кремлём |
Slav'sâ, Slav'sâ, rodina-Rossiâ! Nad starinnym moskovskim Kremlëm |
Be glorious, be glorious, motherland-Russia! Above the ancient Moscow Kremlin |
Above the Great Motherland
Above the Great Motherland (Nad Otcziznoi Velichavo) 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 Ethnic 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)
| Russian | Transliteration | English Translation |
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Над Отчизной величаво – Ты – духовностью богата Единением народов Над Отчизной величаво – |
Nad Otčiznoj veličavo - Ty — duhovnost'û bogata Edineniem narodov Nad Otčiznoj veličavo - |
Above the Motherland majestically - You — rich in spirituality Through unity of its peoples, Above the Motherland majestically - |