Horn,Trombone,Trumpet,Tuba - Digital Download SKU: A0.746795 Composed by Unknown. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Classical,Patriotic,World. 8 pages. Keith Terrett #3537297. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.746795). Arranged for Brass Quintet Russia’s first anthem used the same melody as the British God Save the King, and, like the British anthem, was also a hymn to the ruler. The melody was popular in Russia after the War of 1812 with France and several Russian poets penned Russian words to it. Zhukovsky’s lyrics were published in A Son of the Fatherland magazine in 1815 and was soon adopted as the national anthem. (The poet Alexander Pushkin also wrote two additional verses to the anthem, but I don’t believe they were official.