Slavsya
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"Slav’sya!", () is the name of the final song in the epilogue of Mikhail Glinka's first opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) and now considered as one of Russia's greatest classical and patriotic anthems of the 19th century.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- A Life for the Tsar
- Composer
- Mikhail Glinka
- Lyrics by
- Karl Georg Woldemar von Rosen
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Lyrics of the original Imperial version
- Variant 1
- Public performance lyrics
- Lyrics of the post-Imperial version
- Version 1
- Version 2
- Version 3
- Use in other songs
- References
"Slav’sya!", () is the name of the final song in the epilogue of Mikhail Glinka's first opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) and now considered as one of Russia's greatest classical and patriotic anthems of the 19th century.
The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky and Egor Fyodorovich Rozen, praised the Tsar and the Russian Tsardom, while the latter version by Sergey Gorodetsky was one of a patriotic form and is even sometimes regarded as a patriotic anthem of the Russia in the 20th century and today. It is one of the more popular pieces from the opera, which is performed during patriotic concerts by orchestras and traditional Russian and Soviet instrumental ensembles.
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