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Background ''The Patriotic Song'' ("Патриотическая Песня"; "Patriotičeskaja Pesnja"; also translatable as "A Patriotic Song") was the National Anthem of Russia from 1991 to 2000 . It was originally a piano piece without lyrics, written by Mikhail Glinka , with the French title "Motif de chant national." Some have confused this piece with the closing chorus of Glinka's opera '' A Life For The Tsar '', probably because both begin with the same word "Slav'sja," but the two compositions are unrelated (indeed, the opera music has been suggested as another candidate for a Russian anthem as well). The tune of this instrumental anthem, which was chosen by Boris Yeltsin in the early 1990s and favored by the Russian Orthodox Church , went without lyrics for several years. In 1999 a contest to provide suitable words for the anthem was won by Viktor Radugin with his poem "Славься, Россия!" ("Slav'sja, Rossija!"; "Be glorious, Russia!"). Having never become popular enough, however, Glinka's anthem was replaced soon after Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin , took over. Putin preferred the old Soviet anthem, which was approved by the legislature in December 2000, with Putin's signature and modified lyrics. UNOFFICIAL LYRICS TO "Славься, Россия!" BY VIKTOR RADUGIN EXTERNAL LINKS
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