The network attributed to the classics quote about the severity of the loss of loved ones is popular. We checked whether he wrote something like that.
This statement with attribution to the Russian writer and playwright can be found on sites with collections Quote And aphorisms, in articles on sites libraries, in social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook, Threads, Instagram) and on Blog-platforms. Modern writers Included This phrase in its works, also attributing authorship to Chekhov. Users services questions and answers are interested in who belongs this statement.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the most famous Russian classics, therefore it is not surprising that all the literary heritage remaining after his death was carefully studied, repeatedly reprinted and subsequently digitized. The most complete collection of its texts, among which both literary works and journalism, notes and letters were published in 30 volumes In the 1970-1980s. “Verified” failed to find a popular quote in this collection of works. It does not meet either in National Corps of the Russian Language, where an extensive collection of Russian -speaking texts written from the 11th to the beginning of the XXI century is collected. In the service Google Books This statement with the attribution of Chekhov is found only in modern works published many decades after the death of the writer.
Moreover, the network is wide Distributed Very similar phrase, whose authorship is attributed to a completely different person - living about 2000 years before Chekhov to the Roman poet Pouric Sir. Latin attributed to him statement "Homo Totiens Moritur, QUOTIIENS AMITTITITIT SUOS" in translation Almost literally coincides with what they attribute to the Russian classics: "A person dies as many times as he loses his relatives."
The earliest of the discovered “verified” sources in which the author of the quote about the loss of loved ones is called the Czechs, is a collection of aphorisms “Wisdom with a smile and laughter to tears". On the Samizdat website, it was posted in October 2013. Judging by some book online stores, the paper version was released no later than August 2012, but it was not possible to find the exact weekend. The compiler of the collection is a certain Alexander Kotlyarevsky. One would think that we are talking about a historian and Slavist Alexander Alexandrovich Kotlyarevsky, who was a contemporary of Chekhov, but he clearly has nothing to do with the aforementioned collection. Firstly, among his works there is no work with this name, and secondly, given that the scientist died in 1881, he could not include in the collection, for example, Stalin's quotes or jokes about Stirlitz. According to all the same online stores, among other works by Kotlyarevsky-the compiler of “Wisdom with a smile” (published in nine volumes) there are also collections “Grandfather’s bikes” and “Poems”. Their content does not give reason to believe that Kotlyarevsky has any expertise on the topic of Chekhov’s literary heritage.
To a large extent, the actor and publicist Stanislav Sadalsky contributed to a large extent. June 8, 2015 in his blog on Livejournal, he published obituary Juna Davitashvili, where he used the dismantled phrase, attributing it to Chekhov to the death of a psychic. This obituary was then quoted by many media and tabloids, for example ""Komsomolskaya Truth","Evening Moscow","Radio Liberty" BFM.ru, "Express Gazeta" Starhit, "7 days"And others. After these publications, Internet users began to attribute a quote to Chekhov much more often. At the same time, Sadalsky did not claim that Chekhov is the author of the phrase, he wrote that it seems to him so. Perhaps he saw a statement in the book of the authorship of Kotlyarevsky or another such collection of aphorisms, and then involuntarily launched a quote into the people.
Thus, Chekhov is not related to the analysis of the severity of the loss of loved ones. A very similar quote was in use even before our era, and in the bibliography of the Russian writer and playwright it was not possible to find anything similar. Apparently, the author of the collection of aphorisms unreasonably attributed this phrase to Chekhov, after which, with the same attribution, it was popularized by the actor Stanislav Sadalsky, and after him the tabloids who replicated his post.
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