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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

Tchaikowsky wrote his "1812" Overture as the opening number in a fantasia celebrating the Russian victory over Napoleon. You hear part of the French "Marseillaise" but it is overshadowed by the victorious "Russian Hymn."