March
The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (Марш Преображенского полка) is a very famous Russian march, written in the time of Peter the Great. It was also used as an unofficial national anthem in imperial times. It is used often in Russia, also in the annual victory day parade for the trooping of the colours (Flag of Russia and Banner of Victory). It is also the slow march of the Royal Marines. Several people have written lyrics for the song. It is not believed to have been officially used in the Soviet Union, but it had been played by Soviet military orchestras.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“At the earliest ending of winter,
In March, a scrawny cry from outside
Seemed like a sound in his mind.
He knew that he heard it,
A bird’s cry, at daylight or before,
In the early March wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
Where are the captains that govern mankind?
What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
March wind, and any old tune,
March march and how does it run.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)