Kol' slaven

[S. Brouwer]

Dear Seelangers,

a while ago I heard the a choir version of "Kol' slaven" on a CD with
Russian pre-revolutionary military songs. The melody sounded very
familiar, and indeed it appears that various Dutch (as well as, it
seems, German) Protestant song books contain the song, with widely
different texts.
The original text, according to the cover text on the CD, was
Kheraskov's, and the music is Bortnyansky's. I'd like to sing the
song with our Slavist students' choir, and the notes were not hard to
find,  but I can't make out the whole text from the CD. I did not
find the text in the Biblioteka Poeta edition of Kheraskov, so here's
the first question: anyone know where I can find it? (the full first
line is "Kol' slaven nash Gospod' v Sione").
The second question is: does anyone know why the song is regarded as
belonging to the military sphere in the Russian tradition? The text,
as far as I can judge (I understand about 70%), is of a quite general
religious nature. I vaguely remember that in some 19th cent. novel it
was mentioned as being sung on some military occasion, but where? and
why? TIA for any help,
Yours,

Sander Brouwer
Slavic Dept.
University of Groningen
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
tel: +31 50 3636062
fax: +31 50 3634900
e-mail: S.Brouwer at let.rug.nl