Noble blood even freezes in petrovkas. Why are aristocrats called people of blue blood? Blue blood exists

Anyone who has ever heard the history of the kings and aristocracy of Europe has come across the interesting combination of “blue blood”. What did the ancestors mean by these words, does it exist in nature and how should we relate to such a phenomenon?

Representative of royal blood

What is blood?

Blood is the most important fluid in the body. Transports oxygen and nutrients to cells, removes waste, and makes internal organs function. In every human body it performs the same tasks, but not in the same way.

According to the popular ABO system, blood is divided into four groups, according to the combination of antigens and antibodies.

• The first, common type, which does not have antigens and, if necessary, is transfused to another group.
• The second, with antigen A, is only suitable for subtypes with the corresponding antibodies.
• Third, with B antigen and suitable antibodies
• The fourth is rare, in which both antigens are present, but no antibodies.

To understand what blue blood is and what blood group belongs to this phrase, you also need the Rh factor. It is a protein on the surface of red blood cells. Depending on whether it is present or not, Rh is positive or negative. The royal indicator is Rh negative for several reasons.

Where did the concept of "blue blood" come from?

The phrase itself originated in Medieval Europe. Only we were not talking about the essence of such a liquid; the blue blood group did not exist, since there was no division into groups. Blood groups were discovered in the 19th century. This concept meant the aristocratic whiteness of the skin, which gave off a certain cyanosis due to the veins approaching close to the surface of the skin.

“Dirty” blood was considered to be a mixture with residents of non-European countries, people with a skin color other than white. The more tanned the skin, the less visible the “blue blood” is, and the rank of such a person in society is lower.

Do people with blue blood exist?

When remembering blue blood in a person, the blood type does not always matter, because there are people who have liquid of this shade. There are few of them on the planet; scientists are inclined to believe that there are several thousand of them and they call such people kyanetics.

This is explained simply - the red blood cells of such representatives of humanity contain a blue pigment, which gives the liquid a corresponding shade. As a result, their blood is purple with a bluish tint. In medicine, this is not considered a pathology, since it does not affect the life of the carrier in any way. The difference with ordinary red blood is insignificant and is positive:

• Such people cannot get sick from a number of common blood diseases due to the copper they contain.
• They have improved blood clotting, which allows you to quickly stop bleeding.

It is very rare to be a representative of kianeticists. This parameter is not inherited, doctors do not understand why this happens, so this phenomenon is considered unique.

What groups are called blue?

The concept of “royal blood type” is a thing of the distant past. At the moment, this phrase means several opposite meanings. There are superstitions that almost every subspecies is called blue.

It is possible to figure out which blood type is considered blue only based on a certain “calculation system”. In China, they developed something similar to a horoscope, only based on the type of blood, and endowed each with special features. In different conditions, blue is called a different group. Based on this criterion, a person may be denied a job or an engagement because management or parents did not like the forecast compiled from such an unusual “horoscope.”

Let's look at the two main meanings that this phrase has and the reasons why these groups are special.

Fourth negative

The fourth negative blood group can be called truly golden. In the AB0 system, it occupies the last place and has two antigens, A and B, without antibodies. The special status is due to several factors:

• The rarest and occurs in 8% of the population. The fourth positive is more common, so negative Rh in this subspecies is considered the most peculiar.
• It was formed not as a result of evolution, but through the mixing of two other groups - the second and third.
• Doesn't suit anyone. Such a group can only be transfused to people with the fourth negative subtype and to no one else. This makes it quite rare at donor sites, which creates problems when there is an urgent need for transfusion.

Bleeding with such a group can be fatal, since it is almost impossible to quickly find a suitable species.

First negative

For many doctors, the golden blood group is the first negative. In the AB system, zero takes first place and has both antibodies without antigens. This makes it a universal donor material. The absence of lipoprotein protein, which is the Rh factor, allows it to be transfused to any recipient. This can be done due to the lack of an immune response to the protein.

This subtype of blood is classified as royal because of its versatility, but in modern medicine it is customary for each recipient to receive a transfusion of its group. This is due to better compatibility and easier adaptation of the injected fluid. In case of urgent need, for example: during epidemics, after mass accidents or natural disasters, the first negative is actively entered in order to save as many lives as possible.

Racism and "blue blood"

Having figured out what blue blood is, what blood group and rhesus may belong to it, it is worth saying that, in essence, this mobile connective fluid has the same functionality in any person. He does the same job, and the now outdated grotesque concept of “aristocratic blue blood” has sunk into oblivion, making all people equal. This is important to overcome psychological barriers and racism based on the color of people's skin in different regions of the world.

At the moment, in the scientific world, positive meanings are attached to this concept, referring to the rare fourth and universal first negative groups as blue blood. However, the European race retained some snobbery about this, which led to the emergence of the fascist theory and Hitler's campaign. Many altruists around the world hope that the concept of “blue blood” in the racist sense will finally become a thing of the past after the lesson and victims of World War II.

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"Blue Bloods" of the Middle Ages

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

Of course, only noble ladies had such an opportunity. The peasant women had no time for beauty; they worked all day in the fields, so they were guaranteed a tan. This is especially true for countries with hot climates - Spain, France. However, even in England the climate was quite warm until the 14th century. The presence of a tan among peasant women made representatives of the feudal class even more proud of their white skin, because it emphasized their belonging to the ruling class.

Veins look different on pale and tanned skin. On a tanned person they are dark, but on a person with pale skin they really look blue, as if blue blood flows in them (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 shining through it, contrasted themselves with the commoners.

The Spanish nobility had another reason for such a contrast. Dark skin, on which the veins cannot appear blue, was a distinctive feature of the Moors, against whose rule the Spaniards fought for seven centuries. Of course, the Spaniards placed themselves above the Moors, because they were conquerors and infidels. For the Spanish nobleman, it was a source of pride that none of his ancestors became related to the Moors or mixed their “blue” blood with Moorish blood.

Blue blood exists

And yet, owners of blue and even dark blue blood exist on planet Earth. Of course, these are not descendants of ancient noble families. They do not belong to the human race at all. We are talking 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 - oxygen transfer. Both substances have the same property: they easily combine with oxygen when there is a lot of it, and easily give it up when there is little oxygen. But the hemoglobin molecule contains iron, which gives the blood a red color, and the hemocyanin molecule contains copper, which makes the blood blue.

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

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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.

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"Moon Features"

Like any other desire for the best, aristocracy had its drawbacks. Thus, for quite a long time, “moon features” were extremely popular - fullness, combined with huge pale eyes, and an overly 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, if a famous parent recognized such descendants, then they qualitatively improved their family.

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. Probably, they were, because it was impossible to rise from the common people (they didn’t have time to give it, Soviet power came) to the admiral, and great-grandmother Anastasia was probably a noblewoman, and there is a dramatic story connected with another great-grandmother... I can talk for a long time about my ancestors - although there are no facts left so little!, - but I won’t, because they won’t understand, and there’s no need for everyone I meet to lay out all the ins and outs... And this is not a show-off. 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, these are 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
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11/05/10, Kronos Dark Lord
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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 am more or less aware of the affairs of bygone days associated with 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 belonging to a noble family, I like the aristocratic class itself, I would not refuse from 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 on the Internet an interesting article “Portrait of an Aristocrat” and found in it enough signs of a person of noble blood that are inherent and to me (I’m not saying this to show off, if anything, but I’m just sharing a statement of fact... and to be honest, there were peasants in my family too).