Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! (anthem)
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"Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!"[a] was a de facto national anthem of the Russian Empire in the late 18th and early 19th century.[1]
The lyrics were written by the premier Russian poet of the time, Gavrila Derzhavin, and the music by composer Józef Kozłowski,[2] in 1791. The song was written to commemorate the capture of major Ottoman fortress Izmail by the great Russian general Aleksandr Suvorov. This event effectively ended the Seventh Russo-Turkish War.
The tune is a polonaise.[2]
This anthem was eventually replaced by a formal imperial anthem, "God Save the Tsar!", which was adopted in 1833.
Lyrics
Original Russian orthography | Reformed orthography | Russian Latin alphabet | English translation (by Alexander F. Beck) |
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Громъ побѣды, раздавайся! | Гром победы, раздавайся! | Grom pobedy, razdavajsja! | Triumph's thunder louder, higher! |
See also
- Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!, a novel by Russo-Georgian writer Boris Akunin
Notes
- ^ Russian: Гром победы, раздавайся!, romanized: Grom pobedy, razdavajsja!, IPA: [ɡrom pɐˈbʲedɨ rəzdɐˈvajsʲə]
References
- ^ "9 мая 1791: Впервые исполнен гимн Гром победы, раздавайся!". Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (in Russian).
- ^ a b "Годный для войск, годный для народа - от ученого до невежды". Kommersant (in Russian). 21 July 2008.
External links
- Anthem as it sounded in original Polonaise form
- Russian anthems site (you can find recordings of "Grom pobedy" towards the end of the page or listen it here)
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- "Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" (1791–1816; unofficial)
- "How Glorious Is Our Lord in Zion" (1794–1816; unofficial)
- "The Prayer of Russians" (1816–1833)
- "God Save the Tsar!" (1833–1917)
- "Worker's Marseillaise" (1917–1918)
- "Anthem of Free Russia" (1917; unofficial)
"How Glorious Is Our Lord in Zion" (1918–1920)- "The Internationale" (1918–1944)
- "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" (1944–1991)
- "The Patriotic Song" (1991–2000)
- "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" (2000–present)