The epithet "antediluvian", in our time is used as a derogatory. We are accustomed to calling everything antediluvian that is imperfect, primitive, made handicraft, carelessly, using the simplest technologies, and without possessing sufficient skills. However, this was not always the case.
More recently, the word "antediluvian" had the exact opposite meaning! When it comes to the fact that the great flood was very recently, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, skeptics begin to dismiss it, and give irrefutable, seemingly irrefutable arguments that an event of this magnitude could not have been silenced in the age of developed communications, with developed periodicals and printing industry.
Even if we assume that all references to the catastrophe were deliberately erased in the years following it, there would certainly be at least some evidence. It is physically impossible to destroy all letters from private correspondence, receipts, bills, diaries, and finally, which a person has continuously kept throughout his existence. Even now they exist in the form of blogs, but some in the old fashioned way continue to describe their feelings and thoughts day after day, in ordinary notebooks.
And this argument is actually very compelling. So is it worth paying attention to the traces that are very reminiscent of the flood that supposedly occurred in 1812 - 1824, if one single argument nullifies dozens of speculations and assumptions? I think it is worthwhile, after all, to continue research, because indirect admissions about the recent catastrophe have survived where they were least expected to be found. In the works of the classics of Russian literature of the nineteenth century.
An acquaintance of mine, with the network name nayakayee, literally with two clicks on a computer "mouse" pulled from the memory of the world wide web a whole list of quotes that meet the search criteria. In total, it was necessary to type in the task a part of a word, a combination of letters: - "antediluvian" on the required resource. And here are some search results:
I. S. Turgenev. (1818 - 1883).
Letters from Berlin
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“That’s all I can tell you for the curious. I repeat: I found in Berlin a big change, radical, but imperceptible to the superficial observer: here it is as if they are waiting for something, everyone is looking ahead; but the "beer locales" (Bier-Locale, the so-called rooms where this unworthy and vile drink is drunk) are also filled with the same persons; the cabbies wear the same unnatural hats; the officers are just as blond and long and just casually pronounce the letter p; everything seems to be going the same way. Some of the Eckensteher (brokers) have disappeared, known for their original witticisms. Civilization destroyed them. In addition, omnibuses started up, and a certain Mr. Koch shows a strange, antediluvian monster - Hydrarchos, which, in all likelihood, fed on sharks and whales. Moreover - I almost forgot! In the Tiergarten, another individual, called Krol,built a huge building where every week good Germans gather in hundreds and "solemnly eat" (halten ein Festessen) in honor of some memorable incident, or person, the battle of Leipzig, the invention of printing, the Ronge, the Seven Years' War, pandemonium, the universe, Blucher and others antediluvian phenomena.
In the next letter I will tell you something else about Berlin; I didn’t even mention many things … but not all at once”.
Death
“I have a neighbor, a young owner and a young hunter. One fine July morning I drove up to him on horseback with the proposal to go on the black grouse together. He agreed. “Only,” he says, “let's go along my little things, to Zusha; I will take a look at Chaplygino by the way; do you know my oak forest? they cut him off at me. " - "Let's go." He ordered to saddle the horse, put on a green frock coat with bronze buttons depicting boar's heads, an embroidered yagdtash, a silver flask, threw a brand new French gun over his shoulder, turned with pleasure in front of the mirror and called his dog Esperance, presented to him by his excellent cousin, heart, but no hair. We went. My neighbor took with him the tenth Arkhip, a fat and stocky peasant with a quadrangular face and antediluvian developed cheekbones, and a recently hired steward from the Ostsee provinces,a young man of about nineteen, thin, fair-haired, half-blind, with drooping shoulders and a long neck, Mr. Gottlieb von der Kock."
V. F. Odoevsky (1803-1869).
“And how much he diverged in his views from the ultra-Slavophiles, this is irrefutably proven, for example, by his following lines: Slavophiles about some antediluvian Slavic-Tatar enlightenment, let it remain with them until they show us Russian science, Russian painting, Russian architecture - in pre-Petrine times; and how, in their opinion, all this antediluvian essence was preserved only among the peasants, that is, peasants who were not spoiled by the so-called spoil cities, such as Petersburg, Moscow, Yaroslavl, etc., etc., then we can easily see the essence of this antediluvian enlightenment is in that ugly crookedness with which our peasant scratches the ground, in his barely furrowed field, in his sowing with bushes, in his inability to keep cattle, on which, if you please, for no reason, no reason the plague finds, so - from the ceiling,and not from bad care: in his chicken hut, in his scuffle with his wife and children, in the special affection of mothers-in-law for young daughters-in-law, in the careless handling of fire, and finally illiteracy. Enough! Antediluvian enlightenment in all its glory. " - And in general the book. Odoyevsky could not be allowed to become infatuated with Slavophilism by his philosophical enlightening convictions of a Schellingist, an enemy of preconceived dogma and a supporter of the broadest individualism. "an enemy of preconceived dogma and a supporter of the broadest individualism. "an enemy of preconceived dogma and a supporter of the broadest individualism."
N. S. Leskov (1831-1895).
Nowhere
At the very bridge, where the descent ended, the society overtook the tarantass, near which Marina Abramovna stood, watching as Nikitushka uncoupled the brake from the wheel, fitted in an antediluvian manner.
B. Olshevri (More lies) is the pseudonym of Elena Molchanova, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Kyakhta. The portrait has not survived, the exact date of birth is unknown, presumably 1885.
Vampires
“At the porch, the community was greeted by Superintendent Smith and his assistant, a local native, Miller. From a rather dark entrance hall with antediluvian columns, the guests entered the brightly lit dining room.
The room is large, but narrow, apparently, it always had this purpose: a large fireplace, several cupboards built into the wall, decorations from the horns and heads of killed animals confirmed this assumption. Hunting paintings, by their luridness, clearly spoke of their local origin and involuntarily suggested that the scenes depicted on them were taken from the lives of the owners."
K. I. Druzhinin. (1864-1914).
Memories of the Russian-Japanese War 1904-1905
"Although the next day Kalmykov delivered me three tied Chinese, one flintlock and an antediluvian saber, in the form of trophies of his activities, even the commander of the centenary himself admitted that the commander was to blame for everything, and asked me not to report the incident to the regiment commander."
P. A. Vyazemsky (1792-1878).
Old notebook
“Count Lev Kirillovich was also a remarkable and especially sympathetic person. He left no traces or memories in any state field, but many in the memory of those who knew him. A retired major general, he lived for a long time in antediluvian or pre-fire Moscow, amused it with his holidays, performances, concerts and balls both in his house on Tverskaya and in his beautiful suburban Petrovsky. He was a highly educated person: he loved books, sciences, arts, music, paintings, sculpture. He was almost the first in Moscow to have a winter garden in his house."
A. I. Herzen (1812-1870).
Past and thoughts
“The Baron promised and honestly kept his word. The rector was then Dvigubsky, one of the remnants and samples of antediluvian professors, or, better to say, pre-fire, that is, until 1812. They are hatched now; with the patronage of Prince Obolensky, the patriarchal period of Moscow University generally ends. In those days, the university administration was not engaged, professors read and did not read, students walked and did not walk, and they did not wear uniforms. horsemen, but in various desperate and eccentric dresses, in tiny caps, barely holding on to virgin hair. The professors consisted of two camps, or strata, peacefully hating each other: one consisted exclusively of Germans, the other of non-Germans. The Germans, among whom were good people and scientists, like Loder, Fischer,. Hildebrandt and Geim himself,in general, they were distinguished by their ignorance and unwillingness to know the Russian language, composure towards students, the spirit of Western clientism, handicrafts, excessive smoking of cigars and a huge number of crosses, which they never took off. Non-Germans, for their part, did not know a single (living) language, except Russian, were domestically servile, seminary clumsy, kept, with the exception of Merzlyakov, in a black body and instead of excessive use of cigars, they consumed immoderate tincture. The Germans were mostly from Göttingen, the non-Germans were from the priest's children. "kept, with the exception of Merzlyakov, in a black body and instead of excessive use of cigars, they consumed an excessive amount of tincture. The Germans were mostly from Göttingen, the non-Germans were from the priest's children. "kept, with the exception of Merzlyakov, in a black body and instead of excessive use of cigars, they consumed excessive tincture. The Germans were mostly from Göttingen, the non-Germans were from the priest's children."
As you can see, the writers speak of the flood as if it were a real event that happened recently. The word “antediluvian” from their lips does not sound metaphorically, but quite ordinary, as we now say, for example, “pre-war”. In addition, the meaning is clear that about antediluvian things, the classics speak with respect, as if before the flood everything was much more perfect than in their time. Perhaps only Odoevsky wrote with disgust about the antediluvian Russian enlightenment. Meanwhile, you need to look at his activities especially carefully. Apparently, he survived the flood already at a conscious age.
And it was no coincidence that he was engaged in the collection and systematization of knowledge in all areas: from the production of gunpowder, glass and metallurgy, to astronomy and biology. He studied alchemy and practical magic. A direct descendant of Rurik and a member of the Masonic lodge not only knew, but knew a lot about the true history of the world. And he probably put a lot of effort into correcting it in the right direction for the progressors. But, some grains of knowledge, he could encrypt in his works. For example, "The Tales of Grandpa IRINEA" should be re-read again, taking into account new knowledge about this person.
The main thing to take away from all this is that none of the most fantastic versions should be dismissed. Let me remind you that not so long ago people and the plane seemed like a stupid invention of futurists.
A very important addition!
An attempt to find out at what time the peak of references to the flood in the Russian-language press falls on, did not give the desired results. But the French language has retained an eloquent trace in the history of when exactly the word "deluge" (in French "Deluge") was on everyone's lips. Let me remind you that all of Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century was French-speaking. And the peak of mentions of the flood falls precisely in 1821! The same date is indicated on a glass bottle dug in layers of silt and clay, in a tavern recently dug in Moscow.
Author: kadykchanskiy
