Noble blood. What an aristocratic appearance should be like. Aristocratic appearance: signs

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, makes them function internal organs. 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 arose in Medieval Europe. Only it was not about the essence of such a liquid, blue group blood 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 cross between non-residents European countries, people with 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, they bleed lilac color with a bluish tint. In medicine, this is not considered a pathology, since it does not in any way affect the life activity of the carrier. 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. On this moment This phrase implies 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 they call it blue 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 system AB0 occupies last place and has two antigens, A and B, without antibodies. Special status due to several factors:

• The rarest and occurs in 8% of the population. The fourth positive is more common, therefore 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 in donor centers, which creates problems when urgent need transfusion.

Bleeding with such a group can be fatal, as you can quickly find suitable look almost impossible.

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 entering to save as much as possible large quantity lives.

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 peace.

Currently in scientific world positive meanings are put into 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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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, 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 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 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 noble blood and this really appeals to me! 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 the 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 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 last name 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. Rotten Blood 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-WolfSingle
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).

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

"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 look blue, was distinctive feature 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. 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 - 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.

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 family photo album, from the pages of which simple peasant faces look, you suddenly 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. In fact, ladies from the highest noble society had five differences in appearance and behavior that separated them like a fence from 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, and a narrow chin always distinguished a real aristocrat from the common 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 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. No wonder that society girls had frequent nervous attacks and their parents took them to long-term treatment to Switzerland. 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 - 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, high growth, breasts tucked into a corset, well-groomed and healthy hair flowing in waves over delicate and fragile shoulders is 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 work was never the lot of noblewomen: we do not take into account 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 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.

The noble lifestyle has always been considered privileged: land, 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

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

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

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

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

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 is 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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