pushkin, a brilliant poet , put his hand to those that vasily zhukovsky added one line of alexander1816 and was called the russian prayer lord borrowed the british anthem did not last long with the british always so just defeated napoleon together it would seem friends forever, but already a few years later, implacable enemies in august 1833 from a trip to prussia nicholas i returns, he is angry. he was greeted there with the sounds of an english march, a competition was immediately announced to create his own unique russian anthem; a new anthem appears already at christmas with its music and words. even today , many people know god save the tsar. the author of the music was the composer alexei lvov, and the words to him were again written by the poet vasily zhukovsky, this time true without pushkin, the new anthem was declared the state anthem and remained the only official anthem until 1917. after the february revolution, god save the tsar, was overthrown along with other attributes of tsarism, which replaced the provisional government approved a new national anthem. it became the