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Instrumental recording "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 first public performance took place on 29 November 1798 during the ceremony of laying on the Russian Emperor Paul I the crown and other regalia of the Grand Master of the Order of St. John in the Winter Palace, [1] and since 1801 the anthem actually supplanted the previously performed "Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!". [2]
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 ". The two songs both have identical incipits : «Боже, царя храни».
Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! may refer to: Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! (anthem), a historical anthem of the Russian Empire; Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! (novel), a novel by Boris Akunin
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