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[[Image:Spangled.jpg|thumb|350px|right|There are only two surviving copies of the original]]

[[Image:Spangled.jpg|thumb|350px|right|There are only two surviving copies of the original]]

'''The Star-Spangled Banner''' is the current [[national anthem]] of the [[United States of America]]. The poem (lyrics) was written by [[Francis Scott Key]]. On 13 September 1814, during the [[War of 1812]], Key visited the [[British]] fleet in [[Chesapeake Bay]] to negotiate the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of [[Washington DC]]. The release was completed, but Key remained with the British overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending [[Baltimore]]. In the morning, Key saw through clearing smoke an American flag still flying after the 25 hour bombardment of Fort McHenry. He wrote a poem to commemorate the occasion, noting that it should be sung to the popular British melody "To Anacreon in Heaven." In 1916, [[President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] ordered that it be played at military and naval occasions, and in 1931 the Star-Spangled Banner became the national anthem.

'''The Star-Spangled Banner''' is the current [[national anthem]] of the [[United States of America]]. The poem (lyrics) was written by [[Francis Scott Key]]. On 13 September 1814, during the [[War of 1812]], Key visited the [[British]] fleet in [[Chesapeake Bay]] to negotiate the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of [[Washington DC]]. The release was completed, but Key remained with the British overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending [[Baltimore]]. In the morning, Key saw through clearing smoke the large Pickersgill American flag still flying after the 25 hour bombardment of Fort McHenry. He wrote a poem to commemorate the occasion, noting that it should be sung to the popular British melody "To Anacreon in Heaven." In 1916, [[President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] ordered that it be played at military and naval occasions, and in 1931 the Star-Spangled Banner became the national anthem.

The most commonly used section is the first verse, the words of which are:

The most commonly used section is the first verse, the words of which are:

Soyuz nerushimyy respublik svobodnykh<br/>

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,<br />  

Splotila naveki Velikaya Rus'.<br/>

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,<br />

Da zdravstvuyet sozdannyy voley narodov<br/>

Yedinyy, moguchiy Sovetskiy Soyuz!<br/>

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br />  

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. <br />

O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave<br />  

== History ==

== History ==

==Complete poem of ''The Star Spangled Banner''==

==Complete poem of ''The Star Spangled Banner''==

Soyuz nerushimyy respublik svobodnykh<br/>

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light<br />

Splotila naveki Velikaya Rus'.<br/>

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?<br />

Da zdravstvuyet sozdannyy voley narodov<br/>

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,<br />

Yedinyy, moguchiy Sovetskiy Soyuz!<br/>

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?<br />

 

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,<br />

Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,<br/>

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.<br />

Druzhby narodov nadozhnyy oplot!<br/>

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave<br />

Partiya Lenina - sila narodnaya<br/>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?<br />

 

Skvoz' grozy siyalo nam solntse svobody,<br/>

Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil.<br/>

Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,<br/>

Druzhby narodov nadozhnyy oplot!<br/>

Partiya Lenina - sila narodnaya<br/>

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,<br />

Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedot!<br/>

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?<br />

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,<br />

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:<br />

'Tis the star-spangled banner!  Oh long may it wave<br />

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br />

V pobede bessmertnykh idey kommunizma<br/>

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore<br />

My vidim gryadushcheye nashey strany<br/>

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,<br />

I Krasnomu znameni slavnoy Otchizny<br/>

A home and a country should leave us no more!<br />

My budem vsegda bezzavetno verny!<br/>

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!<br />

Slav'sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye,<br/>

Druzhby narodov nadozhnyy oplot!<br/>

Partiya Lenina - sila narodnaya<br/>

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land<br />

Nas k torzhestvu kommunizma vedot!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,<br />

And this be our motto:  "In God is our trust."<br />

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave<br />

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

==See also==

==See also==

[[Category:National Anthem]]

[[Category:National Anthem]]

[[Category:Patriotic Songs]]

[[Category:Patriotic Songs]]

[[Category:United States]]

[[Category:United States of America]]