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Rhythm heaven interview putin7/27/2023 To what extent does Putin draw inspiration for his current military actions from a highly ideological, religiously and historically informed script? This question is pertinent now, but has been addressed before as well. The tsar attended several rehearsals before it premiered in his attendance, and afterwards it remained to be played in his court at festivities such as his birthday and name day. 5 Nonetheless, they were doing so at a stone’s throw away from the location where the tsars used to be coronated, 6 in an opera that was commissioned with the personal support of tsar Nicholas I. 4 Performing this version, the choir no longer sang of glory to the tsar, but instead only of glory to the Russian motherland. This adaptation stripped A Life for the Tsar from its self-evident imperial theme that was irreconcilable with Soviet rationale after the 1917 revolution. They sang the Ivan Susanin version that was rewritten at the time of Joseph Stalin. ![]() While the melody of Glory could be heard inside the walls of the contemporary Kremlin as well, the choir at Putin’s inauguration was accompanying it with different lyrics.
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