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Vinony's link graph records 438 inbound references to God Save the Tsar!, and connects out to anthem, The Prayer of Russians and United States.
Vinony files it under 1833 songs, European anthems and God in culture.
Vinony links it to 53 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national anthem
- Named after
- God
- Country
- Russian Empire
- Country of origin
- Russian Empire
- Composer
- Alexei Lvov
- Tonality
- F major
- Lyrics by
- Vasily Zhukovsky
- Image
- God-save-the-tsar-autograph-spb 1840-p5-4.gif
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- inception
- 1833-00-00
- Commons category
- God Save the Tsar!
- replaces
- The Prayer of Russians
- replaced by
- Worker's Marseillaise
- language of work or name
- Russian
- title
- Боже, Царя храни!
- applies to jurisdiction
- Russian Empire
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Encyclopedic overview
"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. It was composed by violinist Alexei Lvov, with lyrics written by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky. It was the anthem until the February Revolution of 1917, after which "Worker's Marseillaise" was adopted as the new national anthem until the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government by the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution of the same year.
Lyrics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “God Save the Tsar!” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.