This time attention was drawn to documents on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. Emperor Nicholas II ordered the veterans of the battle to be found and invited to the celebration in honor of the victory. Let me remind you that 100 years have passed since the Battle of Borodino.
Incredibly, there were 25 such people, according to the authoritative print media of that time. Not all of them were able to come to the celebrations, probably due to their ancient age, but 7 people captured the photos. These are only those who were found by civil servants. It can be assumed that there were significantly more of them.
In modern terms, this is tantamount to finding so many veterans of the Civil War of 1918-1920 and inviting them to the centenary celebrations that can be celebrated this 2020. Maybe? Hardly. These people have long since died.
And suddenly there is nothing incredible, and in those days there was clean air, a healthy lifestyle, healthy food, and people lived for a long time. Approximately 115 - 120 years old, like those veterans who came to the celebrations.
Let's look at the statistics of the average life expectancy of Russians at that time.
Apparently, the life of men of that time was not long. By the 90s, only no more than 5-6% survived. And only 17% of all births reached the 50-year mark.
Promotional video:
The picture of the life expectancy of Russian people of that time is confirmed by famous writers in their works:
A. S. Pushkin:
Onegin - Lensky:
Tatyana, Larina's daughter at that time was 17 years old, and her mother, the "old woman", was about 35 years old.
Agree, A. S. Pushkin paints an even more depressing picture of the life expectancy of people. Y. Tynyanov echoed him:
The examples given are enough to make sure that a life expectancy of 120 years could not be an ordinary case. According to statistics from that time, a world record for a man's life expectancy was recorded - 115 years. There were no names of Russian nationality among the record holders.
However, there is no reason to doubt that the veterans were really real.
Princes Ioan Konstantinovich (right) and Gabriel Konstantinovich talk with participants and eyewitnesses of the 1812 war.
Most likely, the calendar dates of hostilities were not real. Apparently, the Battle of Borodino took place about 45 years later. Around 1857. This date is often cited as the year of one of the last planetary cataclysms in unofficial history research. Perhaps it was caused by the use of weapons comparable to nuclear, or geotectonic.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen wrote the following in one of his letters:
July 12, 1858.
Now, if we subtract 45 from 120 years, it turns out that the veterans and contemporaries of the battle at the time of the celebrations were about 75 years old. The elders look something like this in our time.
Of course, the author is not going to present this article as an immutable fact that denounces the official history.
Small, own research. But, such an interesting and instructive one, forcing me to analyze the facts even more carefully: Is it not historians who are hanging noodles on my ears?
