The March of the Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment is one of the most famous Russian military marches. The Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment was one of the oldest and most elite guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army. Neither composer nor date of its writing are known. Judging from an old title of the march, March of Peter the Great, it maybe was written during Peter the Great's reign. Some European scholars suggested Swedish authorship, but there is no evidence to that. In German sources, the name of Ferdinand Haase (1788—1851) is mentioned. Haase indeed worked in Russia in the 19th century, and he wrote the second Marsch des Leib-Garde Preobraschenski Regiments. Some English sources, when referring to the arrangement of the march for the Royal Marines, erroneously give the name of the composer as Donajowsky. Francis Vivian Dunn, and early 20th Century British copies of the march, mistakenly attributed it to an Ernest Donajowski, who was in fact in the sheet music publishing business, and was not a composer. The March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment was often used in modern Russia, particularly in the annual Victory Day Parade for the trooping of the colours (Flag of Russia and Banner of Victory), notably at the 2005 Victory Day Parade. However, from 2010, The Sacred War has been played instead, for only the trooping of flags. From the same Parade, the March is only played during the parades' inspection segment.
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