Wills, Lois Bailey. Born in Scituit, Massachusetts; daughter of Albert Edward Bailey. B.S. from Northwestern University. Housewife and writer of Sturbridge, Mass.
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Alexey Feodorovitch Lvov (b. Reval [now Tallin], Estonia, 1799; d. Romanovo, near Kovno [now Kaunas], Lithuania, 1870) composed RUSSIA in 1833 one night "on the spur of the moment," according to his memoirs, after Czar Nicholas I asked him to compose a truly Russian national anthem (rather than cont…
Display Title: Rise, men of destiny, our troubled planet callsFirst Line: Rise, men of destiny, our troubled planet callsAuthor: Lois B. WillsDate: 1978
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