What should be the aristocratic appearance. Why aristocrats are called people of blue blood Thin long fingers

Blood for blood (From the diary of Kolya Gorelov) 17 December. Don't want, can't believe no more Dmitry Efimovich. Hands fall, longing in the heart. We came to the forest the day before yesterday - on the fifteenth of December - with the whole group. We can no longer stay in the city, student Valka Sobolev,

Yes, we are not noble blood, but still I want to find features in our appearance romantic heroine Pushkin's poem "Eugene Onegin" - Tatyana Larina, to find in yourself at least the slightest traces of the "pillar noblewoman". And, leafing through a family photo album, from the pages of which simple peasant faces look, you suddenly realize with sadness that this is impossible.

Of course, anything happens in our time: it happens that a newly-born countess comes out, shaking a bunch of papers with a family official seal as confirmation of a noble origin. At the same time, referring to the testimonies of the Grand Dukes from Paris, who are allegedly aware of its ancient family history. However, the “countess” is betrayed by a mere trifle: for example, ancient rings somehow look strange on the thick fingers of the “noblewoman”. And this, excuse me, is one of the external signs of a low, as they used to say, peasant family. Actually, ladies from higher noble society five differences were inherent in appearance and behavior that separated them like a fence from commoners. And, having analyzed these signs on the shelves, we will once again be convinced that we are a “worker-peasant bone”.

face shape
A long pale face with a high clean forehead and expressive eyes, a thin line of eyebrows, a thin perfect nose, a narrow chin have always distinguished a real aristocrat from a simple crowd. And this ephemeral creature walked through the huge halls in search of the ideal of life, looking down on the servant, until it came across some prince. The future groom, and then the husband. Although it was not worth envying her: the prince could turn out to be an old man on wobbly legs, severely suffering from gout. But he was of noble blood and even a distant relative. It is the latter that sometimes served as the cause of genetic defects. As a result of such marriages, children were born weak and sick. It is no wonder that secular girls had frequent nervous attacks and their parents took them to Switzerland for long-term treatment. In general, there was a degeneration of the nobility, which, in addition, became poorer, selling land for next to nothing, mortgaging the last property in banks. However, Russian aristocrats were not allowed to perish by healthy and ruddy peasant girls. Therefore, you should not be sad if you are not the owner of a chiseled face, and a fresh blush, so to speak, blood with milk, only emphasizes a healthy complexion.

Hands
Graceful hands with thin fingers, as if created for playing the piano in moments of girlish melancholy, is another attribute attributed to aristocratic thoroughbredness. And this is already a little disappointing. Throwing a fleeting glance at your wide palms and by no means musical fingers, whose nails are far from the almond-shaped noble form, you sigh sadly to yourself: "Even a manicure does not save." And either it pleases, or it sometimes frustrates the wild desire to go to the native garden in the spring and plow everything there. Sometimes the craving for the land awakens peasant roots in us!

Posture
Elegance and grace of movements, straight posture, a look full of noble dignity, tall stature, breasts tucked into a corset, well-groomed and healthy hair flowing in waves over delicate and fragile shoulders are another significant difference between a girl from the upper class and a commoner. This is not a hip gait that you can learn in a couple of evenings. To tell the truth, the art of mastering oneself, of teaching oneself in at its best young noblewomen were taught from childhood. Note that it was a kind of strict drill, not tolerating the slightest blot. Believe me, Natasha Rostova was “trained” for the first ball by the whole noble family, from numerous aunts to a stern mother. Therefore, take a closer look at your posture - the habit of slouching, of course, can also speak of problems with the spine, and not at all about a peasant origin. Or maybe the first and second...

talkativeness
This sign, inherent in ladies from high society, can be called very ticklish. It characterizes, most likely, the behavior of a noblewoman, who, as it were, is within the framework of certain conventions developed over the centuries. However, in fact, she remains a woman to whom nothing human is alien. For example, gossip, intrigue, slander have always been food for many princesses, countesses and other titular persons when noisy evenings and balls were held. And sometimes a high-born lady, fanning herself with a fan, could say such disgusting things to someone with a sweet smile on her face. French that Lieutenant Rzhevsky would have blushed to the tips of his ears. Therefore, do not be surprised that one day your beloved guy gave you a joke for the sake of a miniature hatchet with the eloquent inscription "Do not chop off your shoulder!". He just meant the open peasant character of his girlfriend, who cuts the truth in the eyes, not caring about the consequences ... If you don’t know how to weave intrigues, and all the behind-the-scenes squabbles are disgusting to you, then yes, perhaps there were simple peasants in your family, who are used to telling the truth. And is it bad?

purposefulness
It was inherent, oddly enough, commoners. Aristocrats are ladies accustomed to comfort from the very cradle, and ordinary girls had to work hard to take their place in the sun. Credulity, total ignorance real life, caste isolation, when ordinary people were servants, fulfilling the whims of a noble lady - another quality that characterizes a noblewoman. Perhaps it even somehow ennobles her, creating the impression that a girl or woman from high society seems to be hovering over our gray life, as if despising its boring problems. But our representatives of the weaker sex are very annoyed by this condition. And in them (you can't get anywhere!) the peasant suspicion, coming from the distant past, distrust of everything is still alive. Probably, this was due to the hard life of their ancestors, with dawn until late in the evening working on the master's field. And, straightening their overworked backs, they sometimes watched with longing the noblewomen in white hats, carelessly driving around in elegant horse-drawn carriages ...

Love for work
And not only to the physical. Workaholism says that you are not afraid of any difficulties and do not shy away from work. Physical work has never been the lot of noblewomen: we do not take into account the Decembrists who drank dashing in Siberia. Otherwise, girls from the upper class comprehended the science of life in institutions such as the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, where, despite strict rules, no one was burdened with work. And similar educational establishments, say, were very different from the first Soviet courses, when, for example, Pasha Angelina, having studied as a tractor driver, became twice a Hero Socialist Labor. Therefore, it is not surprising that our modern girl can easily master any technique - it feels like a peasant's grip. And do not grieve about the absence of even a hint of nobility in your pedigree. Because this class was created by Tsar Peter from servicemen, often of low birth - sometimes from people without a family, without a tribe. And the girls in Russia, who captivate us today with their beauty, have always been in abundance. And, honestly, let's say that modern "peasant women" will still give odds to their rival noblewomen from a very distant past.

With those ideas about female beauty that existed in that era. These ideas were fundamentally different from those that are now.

"Blue blood" of the Middle Ages

Modern fashionistas spend on the beach and even visit solariums to get the coveted "bronze tan". Such a desire would have surprised medieval noble ladies, and knights too. In those days, snow-white skin was considered the ideal of beauty, so beauties tried their skin from sunburn.

Of course, only noble ladies had such an opportunity. The peasant women were not up to beauty, they worked all day in the field, so that they were provided with a tan. This is especially true for countries with a hot climate - Spain, France. However, even in England, the climate until the XIV century was quite warm. The presence of sunburn among peasant women in more made the representatives of the feudal class proud of their white skin, because it emphasized their belonging to the ruling class.

On pale and tanned skin, veins are different. In a tanned person, they are dark, and in a person with pale skin, they really look blue, as if they are flowing. blue blood(After all, the people of the Middle Ages knew nothing about the laws of optics). Thus, the aristocrats, with their snow-white skin and "blue" blood vessels showing through it, opposed themselves to the commoners.

The Spanish nobility had another reason for such a confrontation. Dark skin, where the veins cannot look blue, was hallmark the Moors, against whose dominion the Spaniards fought for seven centuries. Of course, the Spaniards put themselves above the Moors, because they were conquerors and infidels. For the Spanish nobleman, it was a matter of pride that none of his ancestors intermarried with the Moors, did not mix their "blue" blood with Moorish.

Blue blood exists

And yet, the owners of blue and even dark blue blood exist on planet Earth. Of course, these are not descendants of ancient noble families. They don't belong at all. the human race. It's about about mollusks and some classes of arthropods.

The blood of these animals contains a special substance - hemocyanin. It performs the same function as hemoglobin in other animals, including humans - the transport of oxygen. Both substances have the same property: they easily combine with oxygen when there is a lot of it, and easily give it away when there is little oxygen. But the hemoglobin molecule contains iron, which makes the blood red, and the hemocyanin molecule contains copper, which makes the blood blue.

And yet, the ability to saturate with oxygen in hemoglobin is three times higher than that of hemocyanin, so red blood, not blue, won the “evolutionary race”.

The noble way of life has always been considered privileged: land, a decent salary, a luxurious life that is inaccessible to peasants. After the revolution, the aristocrats, who did not have time to flee abroad, lost everything they had, and their descendants are often unaware of their noble origin. How to find out if you belong to a noble noble family? In this article, we have collected five signs that can indirectly confirm your noble origin.

Pale skin and blue blood

From pale skin, we smoothly move on to “blue” blood. Why did the expression "blue-blooded man" come into use? It's simple: the thinner and lighter the skin, the more clearly blue veins appear through it.

So, if you have noted your constant pallor and emerging wreaths on your face and neck, it's time to think about the fact that you belong to a noble family.

Thin long fingers

Stretch your arms forward and see how proportional the palm looks in relation to the fingers. If the fingers are long and thin, then it is likely that your great-great-grandmother was a noblewoman.

Straight posture

To determine if you belong to the nobility on this basis, stand in front of a mirror and take a good look at yourself in profile. It is important whether you keep your back straight in a natural position, what head position you choose while walking and talking.

small foot

If you have a small foot - size 35-37 - it is likely that among your relatives there was one who could afford sophisticated heeled shoes several centuries ago.

talkativeness

Think about whether you can be called a talkative person, and critically evaluate how much you like to gossip behind the backs of friends and relatives.

Of course, to speculate about the ancestors of outward signs not quite right - who knows what trick genetics threw out when you were in the womb. And the main thing for an aristocrat is still not appearance and manners. We have no doubt that you know modern etiquette, but for the sake of fun, we suggest that you take a test on noble etiquette and find out if they would take you for their own. secular society Russia XIX century.
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31/05/04, Dahut the White
And I do not know for sure whether the ancestors were nobles. Probably, there were, because it was almost impossible to rise from the simple (they didn’t have time to give, Soviet power came) to the admiral, and great-grandmother Anastasia was probably a noblewoman, and was connected with another great-grandmother dramatic story... I can talk about my ancestors for a long time - although there are so few facts left! - but I won’t, because they won’t understand, and there’s no need for everyone who meets the cross to lay out all the ins and outs ... And these are not show-offs. Let the new Russians and the oligarchs, who have come out of the forest, show off. I believe that the past leaves its mark on the present. And I associate the nobility with honor, with patriotism, with loyalty, with all the best who have irretrievably gone ... Stupid? Naive? But there is always a "but" and there is always a memory.

13/06/04, Beatrice
It's cool to know that a little noble blood flows in you :) Here I have the roots of Alexei Tolstoy :) True, this is very distant relatives but still...

18/12/08, Gorky girl
Whom I didn’t have in my family)) My great-great-grandmother was a miniature noblewoman, she loved music and painting very much, and left us beautiful old albums. Great-grandfather, worked in a prison in Stalin's time and personally shot the condemned. And another great-grandfather was a professor and collected a wonderful collection of paintings. By the way, another great-grandfather was a deep drunk and died from the fact that he fell asleep in a snowdrift drunk. In short, everything was mixed up in the Oblonskys' house, as they say. And now nostalgia for a past, brilliant era in me is mixed with modern boldness. I am a muslin young lady and a tear rolled into one.

11/05/10, Matriarch
Oh, I have noble blood and I am extremely impressed! Firstly, it is undeniably pleasant to be involved in the noble. Secondly, in fact, I always liked Empires more, and also the 19th century. I really regret that I was not born in imperial times, then I would have been a full-fledged noblewoman. Thirdly, what is there to conceal, it is felt in me even now, I like to sing, beautiful things, I like intelligence and puritanism ... modern world, which is ruled by peasants, I do not like at all. I would like to have my own court, serfs and a nobleman groom! This is life, and now ... a donut hole, not life. Well, fuck it, but I like my noble blood, my yes, but kinship with Blok, the fact that my ancestors were outstanding learned men and women. Beauty! Green column, there are already so many of us, we are driving. :)

11/05/10, Kronos Dark Lord
I think, given the number of past generations, it is in many people. As far as I know, there were no "blue blood" among my Russian ancestors, but a Polish nobleman who moved to Russian Empire, was. True, at the time of the revolution, this family was already ruined, which, by the way, may have helped to survive after it.

24/12/10, Juliet87
And from the side of the papi - his great-grandfather was a very wealthy Polish nobleman, and from the side of the mother - there were very noble Tatar merchants in her family who traded with Turkey and the Eastern Khanates in the last century, it was a beautiful time! And, of course, it's nice to feel blue blood in yourself))) By the way, we also have a legend in our family that it seems that one ancestor on my mother's line, though a long-standing one, was actually the Sultan! It turns out that I'm Juliet - a princess of Royal blood! =)

24/12/10, american human
It is unlikely that she was noble, but her great-grandfather on the mother's side was a wealthy man - before the revolution, peasants worked for him in the fields, and after the revolution he became the chairman of the collective farm. Then in the dining room he showed a fiddle to a portrait of Stalin, he was put in a camp, where a tree fell on him, and he soon died. Who knows, maybe he was from a family of impoverished nobles? It will be necessary to apply to the archive and unearth your family tree. And on the father's side, the great-grandmother was an ordinary peasant woman, moreover, an ardent communist and an atheist. When she died, she bequeathed that a star be placed on her monument. But the grandmother (her daughter) was afraid that vandals would destroy the monument with the star, and this star was lying somewhere in the garage.

21/10/13, Caramel with Vanilla
Hmm. I, of course, do not know my ancestors until the 12th generation, but more or less aware of the affairs for a long time past days related to my family. There was one Polish nobleman who faithfully served the Throne and the Fatherland (my surname came from him) ... After the left hand, our family fell under the cheap principle of "take away and divide", having lost a couple of estates, etc. Alas, the worker-peasant cattle , by definition, not having a drop of nobility, but possessing such useful qualities for Pithecanthropes as stupidity, bestiality and laziness, they broke the Lisovsky family great. I am proud of my ancestors already for the fact that they lived their lives honestly. And I try to be worthy of them. I disdain and contemptuously purse my lips at the thought of those who once forcibly seized power. A. The rotten blood of lousy proletarians makes itself felt in the descendants of these subhumans.

18/12/14, Zuxel Connect
I am also a nobleman, a descendant of a glorious German family, whose name is Peace for All (or All for the World). The world is not in terms of peace, but in terms of the Universe. In general, we are from distant planets. We were accidentally thrown into Germany. We stayed there, and sometimes we visit Ukraine.

17/07/15, She-wolf
Yes, the aristocratic blood of the Russian nobility flows through my mother's line in my veins! Grandmother talked a lot about how our noble ancestors used to live, and she, in turn, learned this information from her parents and grandparents. And by title were princes. There were very wealthy people, influential, wealthy, but in connection with the revolution they lost everything, not a single document, not a single heirloom... I am very impressed by my partial affiliation to a noble family, I like the aristocratic class itself, I would not refuse the title "princess", which I could rightfully have, if there had not been a revolution and the order of that time had been preserved ... How - I found a curious article on the Internet "Portrait of an aristocrat" and found in it enough signs of a person of noble blood, which are also inherent in me (I’m not talking for show-off, if anything, but just sharing a statement of fact ... and to be honest, peasants in my family were also present).