Born: 1878, Newport, Kentucky.
Died: January 8, 1966, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Buried: Southgate, Kentucky.
Lyrics--
Beautiful Garden of Prayer, The
He Lives
--www.hymntime.com/bio
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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…