On the Internet, a selection is popular about the subjective perception of the age of people - the facts contained in it propose to rethink a modern view of who to consider young and whom old. We checked the reliability of such publications.
Usually the selection looks as follows: “The mother of Juliet at the time of the events described in the play was 28 years old.
Marya Gavrilovna from Pushkin's Middle was already middle -aged: "She was the twentieth year."
Balzakovsky age - 30 years.
At the time of the feat of the feat, Ivan Susanin was 32 years old (he had a 16-year-old daughter for giving way).
The old proprietor from Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” was 42 years old.
Anna Karenina at the time of his death was 28 years old, Vronsky-23 years old, Anna Karenina, old man-muzhu, is 48 years old (at the beginning of the events described in the novel, everyone is two years less).
The old Cardinal Richelieu at the time of the siege of the La Rochel fortress described in the "three musketeers" was 42 years old.
From the notes of 16-year-old Pushkin: “An old man of about 30” (it was Karamzin).
At Tynyanov: "Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was older than all the audience. He was thirty -four years old - the age of extinction."
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Numerous publications, including this or slightly changed version of the collection, are easy to find on social networks. For several years, it has been especially popular on VKontakte, in recent years it regularly placed on their pages public with an audience of more than a million subscribers: "Literature", "Life", "Cynic", "Thin humor" And many others. Users of other platforms are not behind, including Facebook And Livejournal.
Although this selection in different versions continues to regularly flash in social networks to this day, the peak of its popularity has nevertheless passed. She became truly viral twice. In the first half of 2016, the selection was distributed mainly by large publics on VKontakte: for example, "Strange humor", "Thin humor", "Humor of Schrödinger", "MHK", "Dark Corner", "Secrets of history", "The art of reality", "Leprosy" And "Leprosoria". At the time of publication of this material, from 1.2 to 5 million people are signed for each of them.
Five years earlier, the selection also became popular on VKontakte, but then it was distributed by individual users, which did not interfere with some posts To recruit Almost 5000 likes. No less contributions were made by users Twitter and especially the Living Journal - in 2011 (mainly in the spring) a selection Published at least 400 times. Believe One From the posts, these facts about the age of the same year were even used by Vladimir Zhirinovsky in his appeal to graduates, a common LDPR in the form of brochures.
Just in the spring of 2011, probably this selection appeared. Its earliest mention in the “living magazine”, which we managed to detect, dates March 28. As an source, the user under the nickname Feelingod calls the commentary on Necrologist Elizabeth Taylor, written by Boris Paramonov. Someone Nikolai Kuznetsov posted this comment in the early morning on March 26, 2011. In the standard set, the two facts about the age mentioned by the commentator were disappeared: “Ruslan and Lyudmila” Pushkin wrote the poem at 19 years old ”and“ Galois Galois, Galois, made a great mathematical discovery - Galois Group (at the age of 20 was killed on a duel for political reasons). Galois was the youngest of the great and the greatest of the young. "
For almost 11 years, a viral selection has undergone some changes. In terms of publications, fewer facts are presented, in the part - on the contrary, more. We will analyze the most early version we discovered, which contains 11 statements.
Juliet's mother at the time of the events described in the play was 28 years old
The assumption of the age of the lord of Capuletti was probably made on the basis of its two replicas in Shakespeare's tragedy. At first she tells About his daughter that he was “not fourteen years old”, and her birthday will come in just a few days. Then the mother says Juliet: “Well, now think about marriage now. / In Verona there are venerable Signors, / already mothers who are younger / you, Juliet; Yes, and I myself / have long been a mother in those summer, / what you will remain in the girls. " Thus, it can be assumed that the senior of Capuletti at that moment really was about 30 years old. At the same time, a wedding and even the birth of a first child for a 15-year-old girl in Italy of the 15th century It was not considered Something extraordinary.
Marya Gavrilovna from Pushkin's Middle was already middle -aged: “She was the twentieth year”.
At the very beginning of one of Belkin's Tales, the heroine Designed Like "slender, pale and seventeen -year -old girl." The action begins in 1811, and ends four years later - then Maria Gavrilovna marks 21 years old (the phrases “She walked for the twentieth year” in the text is not at all). During the story, Pushkin never describes it as “middle -aged”. On the contrary, in the scene of the escape from the parental house, the heroine is called the “young criminal”, and closer to the end of the text, the author writes: “This did not harm him (Burmin. - Ed.) In the opinion of Marya Gavrilovna, who (like all young ladies in general) with pleasure excused pranks that reveal the courage and dust of character.”
Balzakovsky age - 30 years.
Probably, the creators of the collection made such a conclusion on the basis that Honore de Balzac has the novel “Thirty -year -old woman”, and some dictionaries Bind The origin of the ironic term with this text. At the same time, there is no strictly fixed age period corresponding to the Balzac age-usually such called Age from 30 to 40 years.
At the time of the feat of the feat, Ivan Susanin was 32 years old (he had a 16-year-old daughter for giving way).
Set any exact date of birth of Ivan Susanin so far failed And it is unlikely that it will once succeed. The same can be said about the daughter, which, however, had a national hero - in 1619 in the complainted literacy of Tsar Mikhail Romanovich Mentioned "Peasant Bogdashki Sobinin", who is called the son -in -law of Susanin.
The old proprietor from Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” was 42 years old.
Dostoevsky really calls her heroine is an old woman, but she is much older than 42 years old: “It was a tiny, dry old woman, sixty years old, with keen and evil eyes, with a small wary nose and simple -haired. Blonde, little gray her hair was greasy greasy with oil. ” The description of the percentage can be compared with the characteristic of the mother of the protagonist, which the author of the “old woman” does not believe: “Despite the fact that Pulcheria Alexandrovna was already forty -three years old, her face still retained the remnants of the former beauty, and besides, she seemed much younger than her years, which is almost always with women who preserved clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions and honest, pure heart of heart until old age. Let's say in brackets that to preserve all this is the only way not to lose the beauty of your own even in old age. ”
Anna Karenina at the time of his death was 28 years old, Vronsky-23 years old, Anna Karenina, old man-muzhu, is 48 years old (at the beginning of the events described in the novel, everyone is two years less).
The only thing we reliably know from text The novel about the age of the Karenin couple is their age difference. This is known thanks to the replica of Steve Oblonsky in a conversation with Anna: “You married a person who is twenty years older than you. You got married without love or not knowing love. ” Unlike the same Steve and some other characters, the exact age of the Karenin and Vronsky does not call Tolstoy. We can only establish the minimum age of Anna - she has an eight -year -old son born in a legitimate marriage, and in the Russian Empire of that time a girl Could Marry from 16 years old, that is, the title heroine of the novel is at least twenty -four. At the same time, Tolstoy himself describes her appearance and behavior as follows: “Anna was unlike the secular lady or mother of an eight -year -old son, but rather resembled a twenty -year -old girl in terms of flexibility of movements, freshness and a revitalization of her face, which was knocked out on a smile, then in the view, if it were not for a serious, sometimes sad expression of her eyes.” Karenina is not called an old man in the text.
The old Cardinal Richelieu at the time of the siege of the La Rochel fortress described in the “three musketeers” was 42 years old.
The siege of La Rochelles, against the background of which part of the events of the novel Dumas develops, It has begun in September 1627, shortly after the 42nd Birthday Cardinal Richelieu. The confrontation ended in October 1628, when the cardinal was already forty -three. At the same time, the author of the selection, because Dumas at the first appearance of Richelieu in the novel, was already considering him an old man. Describes It is completely different: “A man of medium height stood by the fireplace. Proud, arrogant, with a piercing look and a wide forehead. A thin face was even more lengthened by a pointed beard, over which a mustache was twisted. This man was hardly more than 36–37 years old, but gray hair was already flashing in his hair and in the beard. <...> This man was Arman-Jean du Plessi, Cardinal de Richelieu, not the same as it is customary to portray him, that is, not a bent old man, suffering from a serious illness, relaxed, with a faded voice, immersed in a deep chair, as if in a premature grave, living only by the power of his mind and supporting the struggle with Europe, the same as it is in fact, and the same as it is in fact. He was in those years: a clever and amiable gentleman, already a weak body, but supported by an indomitable power of the spirit, who made one of the most remarkable people of his time from him. ”
From the notes of 16-year-old Pushkin: “The old man entered the room” (it was Karamzin)
Discover this quote in diaries, letters And we did not succeed in other personal texts of Pushkin. Moreover, 16-year-old Pushkin, in principle, could not see 30-year-old Karamzin-Alexander Sergeevich was born In 1799, and Nikolai Mikhailovich in 1766, thirty three years earlier. When Pushkin was sixteen, Karamzin's age was already approaching fifty, so such a characteristic, if it were actually given, was rather a compliment to the author of the History of the Russian State.
At Tynyanov: “Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was older than all the audience. He was thirty -four years old - the age of extinction. "
In the novel of the Soviet writer Yuri Tynyanov “Pushkin” really There is Such a phrase. At the same time, the author writes further: “There was no wrinkle yet, but on the face, elongated, white, he had a cold. Despite his playfulness, despite the affection for tickles, as he called the young, it was clear that he had experienced a lot. <...> His heart was broken by a beautiful woman whose friend he was. After traveling to Europe, he became colder to friends. ” Note that Tynyanov He wrote His novel in 1935-1943, therefore, on the basis of this phrase, any conclusions about the perception of the age of Karamzin by his contemporaries are unreasonable-the writer could well use such a wording exclusively for literary purposes.
Pushkin wrote the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" at 19
Reliable It is knownThat Pushkin read fragments of a not completed poem at the last meeting of the Arzamas circle on April 7, 1818, two months before his 19th anniversary. Published “Ruslan and Lyudmila” only two years later. At least Pushkin wrote at least separate fragments at the age of 18, but the final option was ready for printing later.
Galois, Galois, made a great mathematical discovery at the age of 19 - Galois Group (at the age of 20 he was killed on a duel for political reasons). Galois was the youngest of the great and the greatest of the young.
Galois was born In 1811, he was able to enter the Higher Normal School in Paris in 1830-at the same time in France occurred July Revolution. The next year, Galois, who was the opponent of the monarchy, was excluded for political reasons, the young man was put in prison twice. In 1832, even before the onset of the 21st anniversary, the mathematician was killed on a duel, the details of which remain unknown. The few Galois works were not understood by contemporaries, but subsequently developed thanks to Bernhard Riman and other mathematicians living later.
Most of the untruth
- A. S. Pushkin. Blizzard
- F.M. Dostoevsky. Crime and punishment
- L. N. Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
- Myths really in Dumas’s novel “Three Musketeers”
- Is it true that Duma-father is Pushkin staging his death?
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