1. The age of Juliet's mother, the researchers calculate in one phrase:
“As for me, when I was your age, I was your mother a long time ago.”
Shakespeare also mentions the age of Juliet:
"Well, on Peter's day by night And she will blow fourteen years old."
It turns out that Senora Capulet may be 28 years old, or even less. But why should this surprise us if we are witnessing the love story of a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy? Does anyone sincerely worry that they did not become a parent at 14?
2. The age of Marya Gavrilovna from the Snowstorm by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
The only mention in the story about the age of the heroine:
“At the end of 1811, in an era memorable to us, the good Gavrila Gavrilovich R ** lived in his estate Nenaradovo. He was famous throughout the district for his hospitality and cordiality; the neighbors kept coming to him to eat, drink, play five kopecks in Boston with his wife, and some in order to look at their daughter, Marya Gavrilovna, a slender, pale and seventeen-year-old girl. She was considered a rich bride, and many predicted her for themselves or for their sons.
So many years she was at the time of the wedding, and the explanation with Burmin happened more than three years later. Therefore, she could not go to the 20th year.
3. Balzac age.
This expression became popular after the release of Honoré de Balzac's The Thirty-Year-Old Woman in 1834. And it is indisputable that the “Balzac age” can really be considered the age of 30 years. Another thing is not clear, why does this expression have such a derogatory, at best derogatory-joking character? After all, Balzac does not describe at all an old woman who no longer knows where to put herself, but a woman in the prime of her beauty and strength.
4. Age of Ivan Susanin.
Thanks to the unknown network researchers who finally put an end to the age-old debate about Susanin's age. It’s only a pity that modern historians are not yet in the know and continue to call the time of Ivan Osipovich’s birth “the last third of the 16th century”, which, you see, gives a wide variation in age, given that Susanin died in the fall of 1612 or in the winter of 1613.
5. The age of the old pawnbroker.
This is a shameful lie! Yet at school they read Dostoevsky's novel!
“She was a tiny, dry old woman, about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, with a small pointed nose and simple hair.”
Shame on you folks, shame on you.
6. Age of Anna Karenina.
Tolstoy does not mention the exact age of the heroine. Where does such an exact figure come from - 28 years? Nowhere. Just guesses.
"I'll start over: you married a man who is twenty years older than you."
I did not find any mention of the age of Alexei Aleksandrovich Karenin in the novel. But for some reason, the most common version on the network says that Karenin was 44 years old, and not 48 or 46 at all. And this already contradicts Anna's announced 28 years.
7. Age of Richelieu.
Yes, yes, not Richelieu, but Richelieu. The siege of La Rochelle lasted a whole year from September 1627 to October 1628. At the time the siege began, Cardinal Richelieu was indeed 42 years old, but did anyone consider him an old man? Why should we be surprised at his age? I don't understand.
8. 30-year-old Karazmin and 16-year-old Pushkin.
Just a celebration of ignorance. Only it is not clear what: historical or mathematical. I guess both.
Now let's calculate: Pushkin turned 16 years old in 1815, respectively, Karamzin was then about 49 years old, and not thirty at all. Hey Pushkin! Three years before his birth, he saw Karamzin, and even left a note about it, pretending to be 16 years old.
9. And again about Karamzin.
Apparently, this refers to Yuri Nikolayevich Tynyanov, a writer and literary critic. He has a study of the unfinished novel "Pushkin", where you can actually find this quote. Only she does not relate to the physical age of Karamzin, but to his mood and activity at that time.
“The main person was, of course, not the count. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was older than all those present. He was thirty-four, the age of fading.
The time to please has passed, But to be captivated without captivating, And to glow without inflaming, There is a bad trade.
There were no wrinkles yet, but a coldness appeared on his face, elongated, white. Despite his playfulness, despite his affection for ticklers, as he called the young, it was clear that he had learned a lot. The world was crumbling; everywhere in Russia - deformities, sometimes bitterer than French villainy. Fully dream of the happiness of mankind! His heart was broken by the beautiful woman whose friend he was. After traveling to Europe, he became colder towards friends. The "Letters of a Russian Traveler" became a law for educated speeches and hearts. The women wept over them. He was now publishing an almanac called female name"Aglaya", which women read to and which began to generate income. Everything is nothing but trinkets. But the barbaric censorship also constrained trifles. Emperor Paul did not live up to the expectations placed on him by all the friends of good. He was self-willed, angry, and surrounded himself not with philosophers, but with Gatchina corporals, who did not in the least understand elegance.
It's about a disappointed person, not an old one.
I do not even know where to start. I will try to systematize the chaos that is going on in my head after watching the "bold film adaptation".
Plot. I understand that it is difficult to fit everything that L.N. wrote about in a two-hour film. Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, but this is no reason to turn a powerful Russian novel into a comic book. It seems that everything is in place - and the events are the same, and the key phrases in the book, and fictional characters are not observed, but there is no integrity.
Form. The action takes place in theatrical scenery, sometimes on the stage, the mise-en-scenes are well built - they can be seen in the style of the playwright Tom Stoppard, who wrote the script for the film. Transitions between scenes are kept to a minimum. Remember the episode from "Love and Pigeons", when the hero of Mikhailov leaves the deren hut, opens the door and jumps into the sea? In "Anna Karenina" the same technique is constantly used.
The characters of the characters, their age and external conformity. First, let's clarify the age of the main characters. The exact age of neither Vronsky, nor Anna, nor Karenin is unknown. If you think logically: Anna got married at the age of 17-18, her son Seryozha is 8 years old, then she is 26-28 years old. I definitely saw somewhere in the book that Vronsky was a little younger than her, I thought that I had left a bookmark on this fragment, but I never found it. Wikipedia has a link to unpublished fragments of the novel: “Vronsky was endowed with rare qualities: modesty, courtesy, calmness and dignity. According to family tradition, Vronsky wore a silver earring in his left ear, at the age of 25 he wore a beard and began to go bald. And in the novel there is such a character - Serpukhovskaya, it is said about him that he was a general and Vronsky was his age. Would you like to know at what age at that time it was possible to become a general? Really at 25? I found a lot of information about Karenin on the Internet, that he is 44 years old, I don’t know where she came from. In a conversation with Anna, Stiva says that Karenin is 20 years older than her. Thus, Anna 26-28, Vronsky 25-26, Karenin 46-48. More or less sorted out with age.
Now let's look at the similarities.
Anna Arkadievna Karenina
Everyone knows that the prototype of Anna Karenina is the daughter of A.S. Pushkin Maria Hartung.
"Anna ... in a black, low-cut velvet dress that revealed her chiseled, like old ivory, full shoulders and chest and rounded arms with a thin tiny tassel. The whole dress was trimmed with Venetian guipure. On her head, in black hair, her own without admixture, there was a small garland of pansies and the same one on a black ribbon of a belt between white laces. Her hairstyle was invisible ... There was a string of pearls on a chiseled strong neck.
As if Lev Nikolaevich painted a verbal portrait from this picture, right?
If you think that I posted a frame from another movie, you are mistaken. This is an episode from Anna Karenina, symbolizing the suffering of the unfortunate. The cigarette, apparently, hints at deep reflection.
I understand that external resemblance cannot be one hundred percent, but the type, in my opinion, must match the description. The character also failed - with Tolstoy you both understand and despise Karenina at the same time. Anna at Keira Knightley turned out to be flat, simplified, puppet.
Alexey Kirillovich Vronsky
Vronsky's prototype was Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy. Remember the romance "Among the Noisy Ball"? Alexey Konstantinovich wrote this poem to his future wife S.A. Miller-Bakhmetyeva, who left her husband and family for him. This story made a lot of noise in the world.
What do we know about Vronsky? "... there was a short, densely built brunette, with a good-naturedly handsome, extremely calm and firm face. In his face and figure, from short-cropped black hair and a freshly shaved chin to a new uniform wide from a needle, everything was simple and elegant at the same time. " "Vronsky ... began to grow bald prematurely."
And now compare with this cheerful baby doll. By the way, the actor who played Alexei Vronsky, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, is a brunette in life. I don’t understand what the director wanted to say by repainting him blond. And how could Kitty and Anna fall in love with this sugary youngster?
Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin
The prototype of Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin was Baron Vladimir Mikhailovich von Mengden, a landowner and official, a member of the State Council, a callous person, short and unattractive, married to the beautiful Elizaveta Ivanovna Obolenskaya. Karenin had a fresh Petersburg face, a self-confident figure, a slightly protruding back. When walking, he tossed his whole pelvis and blunt legs. A round big hat rested on the ears. He wrapped his chilly and bony legs in a fluffy blanket. Smiling revealed "unfading white teeth." The voice is thin.
Karenin is played by Jude Law in the film. I treat him well as an actor, but, in my opinion, it is too early for him to play such characters. Karenin in the book deep man: outwardly dry and stale, but with a noble and good soul. In the film, he turned out to be a kind of soft-bodied boring holy man, on whom you can wipe your feet. It is impossible to understand how a person with such a character could fly up the career ladder.
Konstantin Levin
But most of all I was shocked by Levin. By the way, the surname Levin is usually incorrectly pronounced through "e", correctly through "ё" (Levin).
Yes, yes, this village idiot Ivanushka is the nobleman Konstantin Levin. It is known that Leo Tolstoy himself is its prototype.
The story of Levin and Kitty looks very strange, and it is difficult for a person who has never read Anna Karenina to understand what these characters do in the film.
Stiva Arkadyevich Oblonsky
The only character that matched the description and character was Stiva - slutty, light and charming. Something between N. Mikhalkov and O. Menshikov.
Entourage. You know, I can accept that the Russian mentality is difficult to understand. I can understand that it is difficult for a foreigner to tell about the Russian soul, about the origins of communism, about peasants, history, Russian life. But why the hell does the Karenins' dacha in Peterhof look like a French garden with trimmed bushes as tall as a man, why do the Russian interiors of city houses in the French style. In this age of the Internet, it is enough to press a button and spend half an hour studying the issue.
See.
This is what a Russian train looks like according to the British. Why it is icy, hardly anyone can explain. Only bears are missing to complete the picture.
And this is what the noble estate of Konstantin Levin looks like. By the way, filmed in Kizhi. I did not find any other confirmation in the pictures, so take my word for it.
Well, for those rare birds who flew to the end of the immense post.
Gag. If you remember, there is not even a hint of bed scenes in the novel, they are present in the film with the comment: "this is love." And there was a moment when Karenin took out a case with a condom in the hope of fulfilling his marital duty. Apparently, this fragment was supposed to characterize Karenin as a pedant.
With this I will end, dear comrades. It's up to you to decide whether you watch this mess or not.
Reading the classics at school, we rarely think about how old this or that character was. Recently, a friend of our company from Los Angeles sent a funny letter, here is its content:
- “Marya Gavrilovna from Pushkin's Snowstorm was no longer young: “She was in her 20s”;
- Juliet's mother at the time of the events described in the play was 28 years old;
- "Balzac age" - 30 years;
- Ivan Susanin at the time of the feat was 32 years old (he had a 16-year-old daughter for marriageable age);
- The old woman - pawnbroker from Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" was 42 years old;
- Anna Karenina at the time of her death was 28 years old, Vronsky was 23 years old, the old husband of Anna Karenina was 48 years old (at the beginning of the events described in the novel, everyone is 2 years less);
- The old man, Cardinal Richelieu, was 42 years old at the time of the siege of the fortress of La Rochelle described in The Three Musketeers;
- From the notes of 16-year-old Pushkin: “An old man of about 30 entered the room” (it was Karamzin);
- Tynyanov: "Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was older than all those present. He was thirty-four years old - the age of fading";
- Pushkin wrote the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" at the age of 19;
- The great mathematical discovery of the brilliant Evariste Galois was made at the age of 19 - "Galois groups" (at the age of 20 he was killed in a duel for political reasons). Galois was the youngest of the greats and the greatest of the young."
Of course, this letter made us smile, but it also made us think. Does anyone now agree that 34 years is the age of extinction, and the “old pawnbroker” and “old man Richelieu” at 42 sound somehow insulting.
Yes, “life is just beginning at 40,” as we were told in the film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears.”
In fact, we want to stay young as long as possible, we even added a few years to the “Balzac age” and we consider it to be 40 years. But in fact, the expression, which has become a classic, occurred after the release of the novel “The Thirty-Year-Old Woman” by the French writer Honore de Balzac.
What happened over time? Were our ancestors in a hurry to live, or are we stuck in our development, hoping that tomorrow will someday come and then we will “live for real”? Is the time not right? Or are we not? There is something to think about, right?
In the meantime, we present our answer to the classics. Indeed, at the age of 40, everything is just beginning!
In the section on the question How old was Anna Karenina in Tolstoy's novel? Which actress is closer to her age? given by the author Netochka Nezvanova the best answer is Let's go back to the source
Quote: I'll start over: you married a man who is twenty years older than you. You got married without love or without knowing love. It was a mistake, let's say.
Maybe 18 or 22
Karenina - 44 (not found in the text)
Anne - 24 - 26 (approximately)
Best Anna Karenina in film adaptations - Samoilova
And age has nothing to do with it...
Answer from soon[newbie]
In the film adaptation of Anna Karenina, Keira Knightley stars in the title role. There she says literally, "I got married at 18." They were married for 9 years. Therefore, she was 27.
Answer from sound combination[newbie]
24
Answer from Goga Vasmoisky[newbie]
28
Answer from Eurovision[guru]
Somewhere recently I read that Anna Karenina was 28 years old. Of course, in those days, she married late.
Answer from User deleted[guru]
Tolstoy wrote that Karenin was an old man. Although by today's standards, he is still young - he is only 44 years old. Anna is about 26-27 years old. She has an 8 year old son. In those days in Russia, she was no longer considered a young woman. Marriable girls were 16-17 years old, so for the 70s of the 19th century Anna was a mature woman, the mother of the family, and Vronsky was very young.
Answer from FLAME[guru]
Anna Karenina was 35 years old.
Answer from Natalia Kosinskaya[guru]
Tolstoy does not have a single mention of Anna's age. Karenin was 44, but with Anna - complete ambiguity. It is only known that she married late. Karenin married her by some coincidence. It is clear that this is the story of mature people.
Only the dead did not write about the new adaptations of Anna Karenina. And I still have a pulse.
I'll tell you about "Karenina" by Sergei Solovyov. Didn't expect it to be so disliked. The costumes are frankly poor and bad taste. The selection of actors - unlike Leo Tolstoy's novel - is a clear age-related inflection to old age. Emotions are unnatural, monologues are simply read, not felt, looks are wooden, vibes are zero. For the whole film, I was not imbued with sympathy, sympathy, or hostility towards any character. As they say, ignorance is the worst thing. Not hooked on a single cell of either the brain or the soul. And this is my personal opinion.
The film adaptation of Anna, directed by Joe Wright, was generally awaited with apprehension. I expected that I would not accept frankly English version. It turned out - quite the opposite. The peak of emotions, beautiful and young faces. Their passions spoke for the heroes, not their tongues. Each glance meant more than the character's monologue. What was worth the scene alone of dancing Vronsky and Karenina at the ball - just the intensity of passions. I liked everything: from the director's ideas, original camera shots to costumes and music.
And now, just for comparison, the actors and their ages at the time of filming:
A. Karenina - Keira Knightley, 27 years old A. Karenina - Tatyana Drubich, 49 years old
A. Karenin - Jude Law, 40 years old A. Karenin - Oleg Yankovsky, 65 years old
Vronsky - Aaron Taylor-Johnson, 22 years old Vronsky - Yaroslav Boyko, 41 years old
Levin - Domhnall Gleason, 28 years old Levin - Sergey Garmash, 51 years old
Personally, in terms of image and age, the characters chosen by the English film director are closer to me. By the way, he also shot a film with Knightley "Pride and Prejudice."
What do you think: how old was Anna Karenina according to the novel? Like from 28 to 35. Is not it so.
And which adaptation did you like the most?
