In the fall of 2024, users of social networks began to actively spread the text attributed by Mikhail Bulgakov that it is impossible to enjoy the herring without vodka. We decided to check the correctness of this attribution.
Most often, the text is given in this form: “What kind of insidious fish is herring?! It is worth cleaning it, cut it, put it on the her face (caviar in the center), decorate with onions (green, crispy nonsense rings and purple rings), slightly sprinkle with unrefined oil, and to put hot potatoes in uniforms (young), as the devil itself begins to whisper in your left ear: “Without vodka, all this is superfluous. In vain "." With the signature of Bulgakov, he began to spread at the end of October 2024 in Facebook, X, "VKontakte"And on entertainment sites.
Without attributes to the writer, this quote has been found on the Internet for a long time, and in two versions: what is quoted above, and a friend, a little more complete, which indicates the price of potatoes (“Young, 80 RE per kilo”). This clarification, as well as the mention of unrefined oil, allows you to say with confidence that the text is not related to Mikhail Bulgakov. In his life, 80 rubles. were not at the cost of a kilogram of young potatoes, but monthly salary Teacher or head of the district police department. And to clarify that it was not necessary for the herring to take precisely unrefined oil - although in "Book about delicious and healthy food"1939 of the publication photo The bottles of refined sunflower oil of Soviet production, this product was rare. According to data Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, even after the collapse of the USSR at Russian plants, there were practically no lines for refinition, deodorization and packing of oil until the end of the 1990s.
Search for Google and Yandex showed that the quote attributed to Bulgakov did not appear on the Russian -speaking Internet until 2019. The earliest publication, which “verified” was found, was dated May 6, 2019. On this day text Placed In the "Jokes" section of the New Ostrie entertaining site. The author of the publication is a user with a nickname Mr. Tricksterwho, judging by the data of his profile, lives (or lived) in St. Petersburg. It was not possible to contact him “verified”.
The very next day, the text about the herring without specifying the source appears in the topic "And not eat something?"On the forum"We served Baikonur", And on May 9, it (with reference to the New Ostrie) Publishing On the oldest entertainment website of the Runet "Anecdotes from Russia." Further, the text begins to actively spread in social networks and on entertainment sites. It becomes especially popular in Facebook And "VKontakte" - publications are recruiting Hundreds And even thousands reposts. In all these cases, Bulgakov is not mentioned as an author.
January 5, 2024 on the entertainment site "Ah yes joke»A publication of the text about an insidious herring with an epigraph appears, which used a distorted quote from the play of Bulgakov" Days of the Turbins ":
- And I don't drink vodka ...
- But how do you eat the village?
In the original, the dialogue sounded a little otherwise:
Lariosik. I, in fact, do not drink vodka.
Myshlaevsky. Have mercy, I don't drink either. But one glass. How will you be a herring without vodka? I absolutely don't understand.
The text (along with the epigraph and signature of its author) was published in the form of a picture that users distributed. At some point with one of her reposts Cut off So that only the signature remains of the epigraph - “M. A. Bulgakov ”, which led to further incorrect attribution. A similar story is described in another analysis of “verified”: an epigraph from Marina Tsvetaeva to the work of a modern writer was mistakenly accepted Users for indicating authorship.
Thus, the author of the text “What for the insidious fish” is not Mikhail Bulgakov, but an anonymous Internet user. This text was first published on the Internet in 2019. He began to attribute him to Bulgakov because of an epigraph with a distorted quote from the “Turbine Days”, with which it was placed on one of the entertainment sites.
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