Patrioticheskaya Pesnya

Патриотическая Песнь Глинки

English: The Patriotic Song of Mikhail Glinka
Patrioticheskaya Pesn' Glinki
Play media Performance of "Patrioticheskaya Pesnya" at the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin on 7 May 2000.
anthem of Russian SFSR  Russian Federation
Music	Mikhail Glinka, 1833
Adopted	23 November 1990
Relinquished	27 December 2000
Music sample
"The Patriotic Song"

The Patriotic Song (of Glinka) (Russian: Патриотическая Песнь Глинки, tr. Patrioticheskaya Pesn' Glinki; also translatable as "A Patriotic Song") was the state and national anthem of the Russian SFSR and of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 2000. It was originally the anthem of the RSFSR between 1990–1991 before its successor state the Russian Federation was constituted in 1991.

The song originally was not a song but a composition for piano without lyrics, written by Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857) and entitled (in French) Motif de chant national. The song has been confused with the closing chorus of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, probably because both begin with the same word ("Slav'sya"), but the two compositions are unrelated (though the operatic music, too, has been suggested as a candidate for the Russian national anthem).

The melody of the "Patriotic song" resembles the melody of the Lenten hymn Christe, qui lux es et dies, by the Polish composer Venceslaus Samotulinus (1526–1560)—which is not surprising because of the Polish roots of Glinka's family.

In the 1990 Boris Yeltsin chose the tune as the new Russian national anthem and was officially adopted on 23 November 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of Russia, and confirmed in 1993 when the Constitution of the Russian Federation was enacted. Also favored by the Russian Orthodox Church, the music went without lyrics for several years. In 1999 Viktor Radugin won a contest to provide suitable words for the anthem with his poem Славься, Россия! ("Slav'sya, Rossiya!" - "Be glorious, Russia!"). However, no lyrics and none of the entries were ever adopted.