"Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" (russian: Гром побе́ды, раздава́йся!, Grom pobedy, razdavaysya!) was an unofficial
Russian national anthem in the late 18th and early 19th century.
The lyrics were written by the premier Russian poet of the time,
Gavrila Derzhavin, and the music by composer
Osip Kozlovsky
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* Osip Abdulov (1900–1953), Soviet actor
* Osip Aptekman, Russian revolutionary
* Ossip Bernstein (1882-1962), Russia ...
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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
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This anthem was eventually replaced by a formal
imperial anthem, "
God Save the Tsar!", which was adopted in 1833.
Text of the song (excerpt)
Notes
References
External links
Anthem as it sounded in original Polonaise form(you can find recordings of "Grom pobedy" towards the end of the page or listen it
here
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