What an aristocratic appearance should be like. About the fact that I have noble blood () What is blood

Yes, we are not of noble blood, but we still 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 a "pillar noblewoman". And, leafing through a family photo album, from the pages of which simple peasant faces, suddenly you realize with sadness that this is impossible.

Of course, in our time, anything can happen: it happens that a newly minted countess appears in the world, shaking as confirmation of her noble origin a bunch of papers with the family stamp. At the same time, referring to the testimony of the grand dukes from Paris, who are supposedly aware of its ancient family history. However, the “countess” is betrayed by a mere trifle: let’s say, the old rings look somehow 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 the highest noble society There were five differences inherent in their appearance and behavior that separated them like a fence from the commoners. And, having sorted these signs into pieces, we will once again be convinced that we are a “worker-peasant bone.”

Face shape
A long pale face with a high clear forehead and expressive eyes, a thin line of eyebrows, a thin perfect nose, a narrow chin 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 servants, until he came across some prince. The future groom, and then the husband. Although there was no point in envying her: the prince could turn out to be an old man with weak 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 society girls experienced 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, pawning its last property in banks. However, the Russian aristocrats were not allowed to perish by healthy and rosy-cheeked peasant girls. Therefore, you should not be sad if you do not have a chiseled face, and a fresh blush, so to speak, blood and milk, only emphasizes a healthy complexion.

Hands
Graceful hands with thin fingers, as if created for playing the piano in moments of girlish melancholy, are another attribute attributed to aristocratic thoroughbred. And this is already a little upsetting. Taking a fleeting glance at your wide palms and by no means musical fingers, the nails of which are far from the almond-shaped noble shape, you sadly sigh to yourself: “Even a manicure can’t save you.” And sometimes it makes you happy or sometimes it upsets you to have a wild desire to go to your home garden in the spring and plow up everything there. Sometimes the craving for the land of peasant roots awakens 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 - 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, teaching oneself in at its best young noblewomen were taught from childhood. Let us note that this was a kind of strict drill that did not tolerate the slightest blemishes. Believe me, Natasha Rostova was “trained” for the first ball by the entire noble family, from numerous aunts to the stern mother. Therefore, take a closer look at your posture - the habit of slouching, of course, can also indicate problems with the spine, and not at all about peasant origin. Or maybe about the first and second...

Talkativeness
This sign is characteristic of ladies from high society, can be called quite ticklish. It most likely characterizes the behavior of a noblewoman, who seems to be within the framework of certain conventions developed over centuries. However, in essence, she remains a woman to whom nothing human is alien. For example, gossip, intrigue, and slander have always been food for many princesses, countesses and other titular persons during noisy evenings and balls. And sometimes a high-born lady, fanning herself with a fan, knew how to say such nasty things about someone with a sweet smile on her face. French that Lieutenant Rzhevsky would probably blush to the tips of his ears. Therefore, do not be surprised that one day your beloved guy gave you, as a joke, a miniature hatchet with the eloquent inscription “Don’t cut from your shoulder!” He simply meant the open peasant character of his girlfriend, who cuts the truth straight in the face, 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 only the truth. And is that bad?

Determination
It was characteristic, oddly enough, of commoners. Aristocrats are ladies accustomed to comfort from the very cradle, and ordinary girls I had to work hard to take my place in the sun. Credulity, complete ignorance real life, caste isolation, when ordinary people were servants fulfilling the whims of a noble lady - another quality that characterizes a noblewoman. Perhaps this even somehow ennobles her, creating the impression that a girl or woman from high society seems to float above our gray everyday life, as if despising its boring problems. But our representatives of the fairer sex are very annoyed by this condition. And in them (there’s no escape!) the peasant suspicion and distrust of everything, coming from the distant past, is still alive. This was probably due to the hard life of their ancestors, who worked in the master’s field from dawn to late evening. And, straightening their weary backs, they sometimes watched with longing the noblewomen in white hats carefreely driving around in elegant horse-drawn carriages...

Love for work
And not only to the physical. Workaholism means that you are not afraid of any difficulties and do not shy away from work. Physical labor has never been the lot of noblewomen: we do not count the Decembrists who had a hard time in Siberia. Otherwise, girls from the upper class learned 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 trained as a tractor driver, became a twice Hero Socialist Labor. Therefore, it is not surprising that our modern girl She can easily master any technique - she has a peasant acumen. And you shouldn’t grieve over the absence of even any hint of nobility in your pedigree. Because this class was created by Tsar Peter from servicemen, often of low origin - sometimes from people without family or tribe. And there have always been plenty of girls in Russia, captivating us today with their beauty. And, hand on heart, let’s say that modern “peasant women” will still give a head start to their rival noblewomen from the very distant past.

31/05/04, _MURKA_
I’m somehow on the side of the principle, but there’s still something pleasant. This is, for that matter, an ordinary show-off :). Well, you see, my great-grandfather was a repressed nobleman :). And there were also a bunch of other dispossessed people in the family...

31/05/04, Dahut the White
But I don’t know for sure whether my ancestors were nobles. They probably were, because it was impossible to rise from the common people (they didn’t have time to give it, Soviet power came) to admiral, and great-grandmother Anastasia was probably a noblewoman, and was related to another great-grandmother dramatic story... I can talk for a long time about my ancestors - although there are so few facts left! Let the new Russians and oligarchs who have come out of the woods show off. I believe that the past leaves its mark on the present. And I associate nobility with honor, with patriotism, with loyalty, with all the best things that are irretrievably gone... Is it stupid? Naive? But there is always a “but” and there is always a memory.

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

18/12/08, Gorky
Who was not in my family)) My great-great-grandmother was a miniature noblewoman, she loved music and painting, and left us beautiful old albums. Great-grandfather, worked in prison during 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 heavy drunk and died because he fell asleep in a snowdrift drunk. In short, everything was mixed up in the Oblonskys’ house, as they say. And now nostalgia for the past, brilliant era in me is mixed with modern bravado. I am a muslin young lady and a total badass.

11/05/10, Matriarch
Oh, I have it noble blood and I am extremely impressed by this! Firstly, it is undoubtedly pleasant to be involved in something noble. Secondly, I essentially always liked the Empire 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 can we hide, I still feel it in me, I like to drink, beautiful things, I like intelligence and puritanism... modern world I don’t like it at all, ruled by peasants. I would like to have my own courtyard, serfs and a nobleman groom! This is life, but now... it's a donut hole, not life. Well, to hell with it, I like my noble blood, my daaaal, 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 generations that have passed, many people have it. As far as I know, there was no “blue blood” among my Russian ancestors, but Polish nobleman, moved to Russian Empire, was. True, at the time of the revolution this family was already ruined, which, by the way, may have helped them survive after it.

24/12/10, Juliet87
And on Papi’s side - his great-grandfather was a very rich Polish nobleman, and on Mom’s side - there were very noble Tatar merchants in her family who traded in the last century with Turkey and the Eastern Khanates, 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 like one ancestor on my mother’s side was actually a Sultan a long time ago! It turns out that I am Juliet, a princess of royal blood! =)

24/12/10, American human
Hardly a noblewoman, but my great-grandfather on my 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 a collective farm. Then in the dining room he showed a figurine to Stalin’s portrait, 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? You will need to submit an application to the archives and dig up your pedigree. And on my father’s side, my 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 the monument with the star would be destroyed by vandals, and this star was lying somewhere in the garage.

21/10/13, Caramel with Vanilla
Hmmm. Of course, I don’t know my ancestors up to the 12th generation, but I’ve been more or less aware of things for a long time days gone by related to my family. There was one Polish nobleman there who faithfully served the Throne and the Fatherland (my surname came from him)... After the Left Revolution, our family fell under the cheap principle of “take and divide”, having lost a couple of estates, etc. Alas, worker-peasant cattle , by definition, not having a drop of nobility, but possessing such useful Pithecanthropus qualities as stupidity, bestiality and laziness, greatly ruined the Lisovsky family. I am proud of my ancestors for the fact that they lived their lives honestly. And I try to be worthy of them. I disdain and purse my lips contemptuously 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 Universe. In general, we are from distant planets. We were thrown into Germany by accident. We stayed there, and sometimes we visit Ukraine.

17/07/15, She-WolfLonely
Yes, on my mother’s side the aristocratic blood of the Russian nobility flows in my veins! Grandmother talked a lot about how our noble ancestors used to live, and she, in turn, gleaned this information from her parents and grandparents. And there were princes by title. They were very wealthy people, influential, wealthy, but due to the revolution they lost everything, not a single document, not a single heirloom was preserved... I am very impressed by my partial affiliation with noble family, I like the aristocratic class itself, I would not refuse the title “princess”, which I could have rightfully had if the revolution had not happened and the order of that time had been preserved... I once found an interesting article on the Internet “Portrait of an Aristocrat” and I found in her enough signs of a person of noble blood, which are also inherent in me (I’m not saying this to show off, if anything, but just sharing a statement of fact... and to be honest, there were peasants in my family too).

The noble lifestyle has always been considered privileged: land, a decent salary, luxurious life, inaccessible to peasants. After the revolution, aristocrats who did not have time to flee abroad lost everything they had, and their descendants often have no idea about their noble origins. How do you know 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

While the peasants worked in the fields from morning to night to feed their families and their few livestock, the nobles held balls and dinner parties. The skin of the peasants gradually darkened in the sun, becoming rough and wrinkled. The nobles had a light complexion all year round - in the heat they took refuge in the shade of luxurious gardens, they preferred to hold balls in evening time days. Nobles with dark skin from birth resorted to radical measures: they bleached it with flour and other powders, which became the prototypes of modern powder.

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

So, if you notice constant pallor and visible wreaths on your face and neck, it’s time to think about the fact that you belong to a noble family.

Thin long fingers

Every noble house always had a piano, or even two. WITH early age Music teachers came to noble girls and boys. Together they learned new sketches, which obedient children then played at the request of their parents at balls and parties. Playing the piano gave children long, graceful fingers. Due to exhausting work, the peasants could not boast beautiful hands: they constantly worked on the ground, which is why their fingers were short and their skin was rough and cracked.

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

Straight posture

Daily work in the fields turned the peasants into hunched people with poor posture and constantly stiff backs. The nobles, on the contrary, were taught to walk beautifully and correctly from childhood. This was especially true for girls: in etiquette lessons they learned the correct gait and often practiced, parading around the hall with books on their heads to the point of exhaustion. A girl from a noble family simply had to be able to present herself beautifully: a gait from the hip, a slightly upturned nose and a raised chin. A noblewoman was also distinguished from a peasant woman by the so-called “swan neck”.

To determine whether you are considered a noble 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 position of your head you choose while walking and talking.

small foot

Noble girls most often had small, neat feet. Remember the fairy tale about the long-suffering Cinderella? During the times of the nobility there were a lot of such “Cinderellas” among noblewomen. They were distinguished by fragility and elegance, and this applied to absolutely everything - from the face and hands to the figure and shape of the foot. Fortunately, it didn’t go as far as wearing shoes 1-2 sizes smaller and bandaging the feet, as was done in China, and the difference in foot length was more likely due to lifestyle. The peasants did not travel in carriages or on horses, but spent the entire day on their feet. Their feet became wide and their leg size increased. So it turned out that, with the same height, the noblewomen were smaller in size than the peasant women.

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

Talkativeness

Nobles have always been talkative. As children, they received a large amount of knowledge, read a lot, and therefore were considered interesting interlocutors. And regular balls and dinner parties served as a unique chance to show off one’s intellect and demonstrate this erudition to others. This was especially true for girls who wanted to get married. In those days, eligible grooms were demanding of their future wives, and in addition to external beauty, they valued the ability to support small talk. True, there was back side medals: excessive talkativeness betrayed a narrow-minded, ignorant person. Quarrels, intrigues and gossip often arose in situations where girls did not know how to “keep their mouth shut.”

Consider whether you can be considered a talkative person, and critically evaluate how much you like to gossip behind the backs of friends and family.

Of course, making guesses about ancestors based on external signs not entirely correct - who knows what trick genetics played when you were in your mother’s 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 fun, we suggest you take a test on noble etiquette and find out whether they would accept you as one of their own. secular society Russia XIX century.
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Everyone has heard about aristocratic appearance. Many can even say with confidence whether this or that person has it. But few people are able to give this concept an exact definition. It’s not surprising, because even modern sociologists, until very recently, could not do this. However, after several years of research, a more or less accurate definition of the concept of “aristocratic appearance” was finally identified. Of course, there are still disagreements and inaccuracies in it, but it is only a matter of time. And now all those interested can satisfy their curiosity and find out what she is like - the appearance of an aristocrat?

Myths about nobles

It should be noted right away that not all people of noble origin have a noble appearance. On the contrary, often the most great and “well-born” representatives of the human race have the most ordinary appearance, often even with some deformities. The reason for this is concern for the so-called “purity of blood”, due to which the bride or groom could be matched for reasons not of health, much less appearance, but of family fame. At times, consanguineous marriages also took place, which, of course, had a negative impact on the children born in them.

Aristocratic appearance: signs

Currently, nobility and sophistication can be found in the most different people. The main signs of an aristocratic appearance are as follows:

Behavior

But, of course, an aristocratic appearance is created not only by the above characteristics, but also by the manner in which one behaves. True nobility is imparted to a person only by straight posture, a proudly raised head, direct gaze, graceful movements and politeness.

"Moon Features"

Like any other desire for the best, aristocracy had its drawbacks. Yes, that's enough for a long time“Moon features” were extremely popular - plumpness combined with huge pale eyes and a too thin, rounded face. But, contrary to the opinion of the majority, this was not a breakthrough or the result of carefully calculated marriages, but a genetic defect that arose as a result of sexual relations between close relatives.

Bastards

Surprisingly, some people, even in those ancient times, understood that excessive pallor, weakness and obvious unsuitability for physical labor were not good, and they sought to introduce “fresh” blood into their family by entering into intimate contact with people of “lower” origin . Thus, bastards appeared - nobles, whose aristocratic appearance baffled many. Well, what if famous parent recognized such descendants, then they qualitatively improved their family.

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