March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment - Fife and Drums

The audio in this video was ripped from footage of the 2007 Kremlin Zorya festival for military music from around the world. I re-edited the audio a little to fill out the song’s stanzas and remove the sound of applause to the best of my ability. Nowhere on Youtube could I previously find a rendition of this march on fife and drum as it would be played on the battlefield or the parade square of 18th and 19th Centuries, but now here you have it. The image is an illustration by Oleg Parkhaev depicting the Russian guardsmen charging with bayonets at the battle of Kulm, 29-30 August, 1813. The men in the fore are actually of the Semyonovskiy regiment (notice the blue on the officer’s collar? you might have to go fullscreen) but both of those old veteran-regiments of Narva fought with distinction at Kulm and both were awarded new banners with streamers of the Order of St. George. Together in the 1st Guards Division under G. V. Rosen, they made several delaying actions and counter-attacks against the