Snafus related to the Russian anthem

Cover of the CD “Anthem of Russian Federation, Anthem of Moscow” (2002) in the first print run. The wrong poet and wrong composer are listed in the Russian details. It was corrected in the later print runs.
Received from Roman Sinelnikov

There are a few cases when the authorship of the anthem has been credited to wrong persons. The first issue of CD “Lubeh Rasseya” listed B. Alexandrov as the composer. A self-published CD “The Sounds of General Midi” listed Rimsky-Korsakov as the composer. About half of the places on the Web that list the authors of the Soviet anthem by full names credit the lyrics to Garold El-Registan or to G.G. El-Registan, son of the actual lyrics author and also a poet (the museum initially made this mistake, too).

Page from the book
Appendix with the lyrics of the Anthem of Russia in the book “Russian National Symbols” by Nadezhda Soboleva (2002), page 189. Each refrain has two lines from the 2000 lyrics, one line from the 1977 lyrics and one line essentially the same as in the 1944 lyrics. It was corrected in the later print runs.
This lyrics was not written by the book publisher, but rather diligently copied from the front page of “Rossiyskaya gazeta”, the official government newspaper, from the last issue in the year 2000 (no. 248 from December 30). Apparently the newspaper hurried to print the new lyrics without verifying its source. The next issue of the newspaper, the first one in 2001, contained the Presidential Decree with the correct lyrics. The wrong lyrics, however, had already been reprinted by many other newspapers :-)
Received from Roman Sinelnikov

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