Russian folk song "Khasbulat" against the Hymn of the USA.

[Andrey son of Lion]

Russian folk song "Khasbulat" against the Hymn of the USA.
The Russian author Alexander Ammosov published a poem "Khasbulat" in 1858, thise poem was became the song shortly after, in the 1890s the melody was finally processed and recorded by O.H. Agreneva-Slavyanscaya. The first sound recording on a plate of this song is known in 1908.
That is, the Russian song was published earlier than the US anthem became officially known.

 

[Andrey son of Lion]

The Pyatnitsky Choir performs "Khasbulat"

 

[FHII]

My phone cannot handle the data to hear the video clups, but I will look into it when I have better access.

As a side note, the U.S. national anthem is by Francis Scott Key and is abbreviated in its most memerable form. It was just a poem telling of a stance against England at Baltimore (my current location, by the way).... Yet it is set as a song to an old English drinking chanty.

Very ironic!