Editing God Save the Tsar! (section)

{{Short description|Former national anthem of the Russian Empire}}
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{{Infobox anthem
| title         = {{lang|ru|Боже, Царя храни!}}
| transcription = {{translit|ru|italic=no|Bózhe, Tsaryá khraní!}}
| english_title = God Save the Tsar!
| image         = Боже, Царя храни (Anthem of Russian Empire).png
| prefix        = Former national
| country       = [[Russian Empire|Russia]]
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Former royal anthem of [[Principality of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]] (1878–1908)
| composer      = [[Alexei Lvov]]
| author        = [[Vasily Zhukovsky]]
| adopted       = 31 December 1833
| until         = 15 March 1917
| predecessor   = "[[The Prayer of Russians]]"
| successor     = "[[Worker's Marseillaise]]" (Russia)<br>"[[Anthem of His Majesty the Tsar]]" (Bulgaria)
| sound         = Bozhe, tsarya khrani!.ogg
| sound_title   = Choral version (recorded in 1915)
}}

"'''God Save the Tsar!'''" ({{Lang-rus|Боже, Царя храни!|p=ˈboʐɨ tsɐˈrʲa xrɐˈnʲi}}) was the [[national anthem]] of the [[Russian Empire]]. The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 1833. It was composed by violinist [[Alexei Lvov]], with lyrics written by the [[court poet]] [[Vasily Zhukovsky]]. It was the anthem until the [[February Revolution]] of 1917, after which "[[Worker's Marseillaise]]" was adopted as the new national anthem until the overthrow of the [[Russian Provisional Government]] by the [[Bolsheviks]] in the [[October Revolution]] of the same year.