Preobrazhensky Regiment March

The March of the Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment (Russian: Марш Лейб-гвардии Преображенского полка) is one of the most famous Russian military marches.^[1] The Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment was one of the oldest and most elite guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army.

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Usage

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Perspective

Russian Empire

The march was used as an unofficial national anthem in early imperial times.^[2]

Modern Russia

The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment was often used in modern Russia, particularly in the annual Victory Day Parade for the trooping of the colours (Flag of Russia and Banner of Victory), notably at the 2005 Victory Day Parade. However, from 2010, The Sacred War has been played instead, for only the trooping of flags.^[3] The March is only played during the parades' inspection segment.

The March is not believed to have been officially used in the Soviet Union much, but it was played by Soviet military bands in concerts and sometimes during the inspection segment of parades, notably during the 1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade.^[4]

United Kingdom

The March has been used as the slow march of the Royal Marines in the arrangement of Francis Vivian Dunn.^[5]^[1] It was awarded to them by Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma on the occasion of the Corps's tercentenary in 1964.

Other uses

Before World War I, the work was used as the presentation march (German: Präsentiermarsch) in several military formations in Prussia.^[1] It was used in 1969 as the opening credits of The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten.^{[citation needed]}

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Origin

Neither the composer nor the date of The March's composition is known. Judging from an old title of the march, March of Peter the Great, it was perhaps written during Peter the Great's reign. Some European scholars have suggested Swedish authorship, but there is no evidence to support this claim. In German sources, the name of Ferdinand Haase (1788—1851) is mentioned. Haase indeed worked in Russia in the 19th century, and he wrote the second Marsch des Leib-Garde Preobraschenski Regiments.^[1] Some English sources, when referring to the arrangement of the march for the Royal Marines, erroneously give the name of the composer as Donajowsky.^[5] Francis Vivian Dunn, and early 20th Century British copies of the march, mistakenly attributed it to an Ernest Donajowski, who was in fact involved in the sheet music publishing business, and was not a composer.^[6]

Several lyrics are known for the march.^[4]