"Ода к радости"/"Ode to joy" - Anthem of the European Union in Russian

"Ode to Joy" is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza. "Ode to Joy" is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824. 1865 - cantata by P. I. Tchaikovsky , Russian text compiled from translations by K. Aksakov, V. Benediktov and M. Dmitriev