Bozhe, Tsarya Khrani! - God Save the Tzar! : National Anthem of Russian Empire

"God Save the Tzar" is a former National Anthem of Russia. It was written by Alexei Lvov and became the Anthem by virtue of winning a competition to choose the Anthem in 1833 and remained as the country's anthem until the Russian Revolution in 1917. The lyrics strongly suggest it was modelled on God Save the Queen which at the time was well-established in the UK. Although the Anthem was written much later than the events of 1812, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture quotes the Anthem at the climax to illustrate the victorious Russian forces repelling the advance of Napoleon's army. The overture also uses the French Anthem La Marseillaise to represent Napoleon's troops. Although this had been written before 1812, Napoleon had banned it as the National Anthem. Nevertheless audiences in Tchaikovsky's time would understand the symbolism and not be too worried about historical accuracy. The melody of "God Save the Tsar" has also been used as a hymn called the "Russian Hymn" in various hymnals.
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[@平教經]

To be more specific, British "God save the King" itself is a remake of French "Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roy". And French text itself is based off medieval carol "Domine salvum fac regem".
Text of Russian anthem is actually more similar to French original than to British derivatives, but this might be a coincedence ( for example some motives of text of Japanese Kimi Ga Yo might also look similar, yet that poem was written back in Heian era).
The music of Grand Dieu Sauve le Roy is sometimes even attributed to king Louis XIV's famous court musician, Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Motive of "Grand Dieu Sauve le Roy" became sort of pan-monarchist anthem and it is interesting how it ended up in Britain, because the actual text of God Save the King came from Jacobites during their uprising in 1744-45, who aimed to reinstate Stuart dynasty to British throne.
This is why text asks to "Send him victorious" - send him (Charles Edward Stuart, whom Jacobites considered to be legitimate king) victorious back from exile back to England.
However government supporters took the same tune and composed a very different song to it:
God grant our marshal Wade
Let by thy mighty hand victory bring
Let he sedition hush and like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scotts to crush
God save our King!
And only after uprising was over they also took over the Jacobite text, which with some alterations is in use in Britain to this day.

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[@queenofscore]

Beautiful! Splendid! God save the Tsar.

[@CaptNK1]

Long live the Tsar!

[@ISBERRIA]

S O V I E T C R I N G E
T S A R R U S S I A B A S E D

[@costanvaarwel8932]

Imagine having elected your leader rather than having them being ordained by god?

[@OLDGOLDENSTAR]

*E P I C !!!*

[@ItsRufus99]

God save the tsar!
Long live Russia ☦️

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bro this gives memories

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[@TunesofDragons]

God save the Tsar!

[@ThanaphatJannet]

What font do you use in Russian?

[@puerto-rico-editz]

At least we survived WW1 lol

[@NihilsineDeo1866.]

God save the Tsar and His Family !!!
Rest in Peace Romanov !!!!

[@Missingtextures1917]

Until the Russian Civil War kicked it a*ss

[@aweirdredguy3885]

God didnt save him in the end