What kind of tattoo did Stalin have. Myth or truth that Albert Einstein, Nicholas II and Stalin had tattoos? Tattoo with a portrait of Stalin and the underworld
Tattoos can be a hallmark of not only rock musicians, actors, crime bosses and representatives of informal subcultures. It turns out that in history there were many famous personalities who did not belong to any of these groups, who, nevertheless, decorated their bodies with indelible drawings. about them in special review.
1. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte- the founder of the current ruling royal dynasty of Sweden, who began his career as a simple soldier in the French royal army.
During the revolution, he quickly advanced to the commander of a division, and under Napoleon became a marshal. The next step was an invitation to the successors to the Swedish king. In 1818, Bernadotte officially took the Swedish throne under the name of Charles XIV Johan. After the death of the ruler in 1844, while preparing for embalming, a tattoo was found on his arm. French"Death to kings!"
2. NicholasII. At the end of the 19th century, still in the status of Tsarevich, Nikolai, who was preparing to ascend the Russian throne, visited several countries in order to broaden his horizons and strengthen interstate relations.
One of these countries was Japan, from which the future king brought a dragon tattoo on his left arm below the elbow. In memory of the trip, two scars on his head also remained - a local policeman attempted on the life of the monarch for reasons that have not yet been clarified. Subsequently, the king made himself two more tattoos - the image of a sword on his chest and the name of his wife on his arm.
3. Thomas Edison. One of the inventions of the American genius, who gave us an incandescent llama, a kinescope, a phonograph and a host of other useful things, was a pneumatic stencil pen.
This device, tipped with a steel needle for punching, was used to copy documents. Later, it was on the basis of this "electric pen" that the first tattoo machine was created. Edison himself had a tattoo of five dots on his left forearm.
4. Theodore Roosevelt. A graduate of Harvard University, the 26th President of the United States and the first American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, he had a family crest tattooed on his chest.
In the future, the politician’s chest was “adorned” with another life-long mark - a bullet hole, a memory of the assassination attempt in Milwaukee during the election campaign. The bullet pierced Roosevelt's eyeglass case and a thick 50-page manuscript containing a speech he intended to deliver to the voters, which lay in the inside pocket of Roosevelt's jacket. It is noteworthy that Roosevelt did not interrupt his speech, and carried the bullet in his body until the end of his life, because it was more dangerous to remove it than to leave it in place.
5. Winston Churchill. In 2012, Great Britain won the title of the most tattooed nation in the world. And this is not surprising, given that its glorious prime minister set the tone at the beginning of the last century, having tattooed an anchor on his forearm.
Churchill's mother also had a tattoo of a snake wrapped around her wrist - if necessary, she hid it with massive bracelets.
6. Joseph Stalin. In the years of rebellious youth, the formidable Soviet leader managed to visit prison dungeons more than once. Here he got a tattoo in the form of a blue grinning skull.
The composition for the drawing was made from improvised means - the soot of the burnt heel of a tarpaulin boot, diluted urine and sugar. By the way, at the height of Stalinist repressions, the most common tattoo in the colonies was a portrait of the leader - he was poked out on his chest in the hope that the guards would not dare to shoot in the "holy" face.
7. Prince Charles Princes William (before marriage) and Harry often shocked the public, but their dad Charles, as it turned out, was also not a bastard. History is silent about where and what kind of tattoo his royal highness had - most likely, the drawing was applied in 1971-1976 during Charles's service in the navy. It is known that he got rid of the tattoo on the eve of the wedding with Diana.
8. Joseph Kobzon. Master of the Soviet and Russian stage in adolescence adorned his shoulder with a blue inscription "I will not forget my dear mother." The future idol of millions put a seal on his body, clearly indicating belonging to a criminal subculture, so as not to lose face in front of his peers. In total, the young Kobzon had five or six tattoos, made with crooked amateur needles. Subsequently, they had to be brought together.
10th place: Perhaps one of the most unexpected was the fact that we managed to find in books on the history of Ancient Rus': among the ancient Slavs, tattoos were mostly worn by women. Drawings on the skin were a ritual amulet of the keeper of the hearth.
9th place: The Catholic Church is by no means against tattoos. Converting the natives to their religion, Catholics made new converts tattoos in the form of a cross or crucifix so that they could not convert to another faith. And now there are more than a hundred officially registered Christian tattoo associations that offer tattooing services with biblical stories and canonical texts. If you want, you can even bless the tattoo.
8th place: In the British royal family, tattoos are also approved, since 1862, when the future King Edward VII, got a tattoo in the shape of a cross on his arm. Prince Charles also had a tattoo, but he brought it down shortly before his wedding to Diana. Almost the entire body of the English King Harold had tattoos of scenes of military battles.
7th place: John Kennedy brought his tattoo down only at the insistence of his wife (he had a turtle on his shoulder), and Winston Churchill had an anchor tattoo. By the way, in 1900 it was found that 90% of US Navy sailors have tattoos. The turtle means that the sailor has crossed the equator.
6th place: Also, Albert Einstein, Nicholas II and Stalin had tattoos.
5th place: Among the Japanese geishas, a tattoo was considered one of the five proofs of love. The other four are cutting hair, writing a love vow, cutting nails, and finally cutting off the little finger.
4th place: The most vulgar tattoo was once on the shoulder of Joseph Kobzon. Imagine, it was the inscription "I will not forget my mother" made in blue ink.
3rd place: The cutest tattoo ever. During the Vietnam War, an American conscript tattooed himself with two obscene words on the edge of his right palm. The tattoo was visible only when he saluted, so he was not taken into the army.
2nd place: The most "tattooed" man in the world lives on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. 99.9% of the surface of his skin is covered with a tattoo that repeats the pattern of a leopard skin. The only parts of his body not covered by a tattoo were between his toes and inside his ears.
1 place: Victoria Beckham. She makes tattoos in the form of the names of people dear to her on her, excuse me, pope. There is already a tattoo with her own name, the name of her husband and first son. Recently, she got a tattoo on the other buttock with the name of her second son. By the way, they say that Victoria wants to leave show business and give birth to five more children.
None of them apparently had tattoos on their bodies. Primarily for religious reasons. If tattoos were available, then these would be world-famous facts and such questions would not be asked on the Internet.
Emperor Nicholas II and Joseph Stalin certainly did not have tattoos, this is not mentioned in any of the sources. In addition, Nicholas II was a believer, and tattoos used to be considered something negative and were associated with prison in the first place. Stalin studied at an Orthodox theological school, and then at a theological seminary in his youth, so, one might say, he was also a believer.
As for Albert Einstein, he hardly had tattoos. Firstly, he is from a Jewish family - this was not accepted among them. Secondly, he studied at a Catholic school, and it was not customary in those days to do tattoos just like that.
And on the Internet you can write anything, so someone spread the myth about the tattoos of Nicholas II, Stalin and Einstein. And for some reason there are no photos of tattoos.
Joseph Stalin and Nicholas II didn’t have tattoos, that’s for sure, these are just myths invented by various media, perhaps the Ren-TV channel, they just play with such topics just to raise their rating. It is impossible that such people would have tattoos, which at that time were worn exclusively by jailers
I won’t speak for Einstein, Nicholas II and Stalin definitely didn’t have it - the church didn’t encourage this.
Dzhugashvili was a seminarian, Nikolai was a zealous believer.
Stalin and Nicholas II may have had tattoos, but this is not known, since these rulers were constantly dressed, but also had principles and faith, which did not allow them to make tattoos. But what can we say about people who could afford anything. For a man like Einstein, most likely they were definitely not needed.
These tattoos are now considered an art, they are applied for beauty and to emphasize individuality. And before they were purely prison decorations. Therefore, none of the listed people had a tattoo. There is also no documentary evidence for this. Therefore, the statement about the tattoo of the Russian Tsar, Einstein and Stalin is nothing more than a common myth.
Einstein, Nicholas II and Stalin did not have tattoos. If they were, then there would be information in the records about their lives. These are important people. They had personal doctors and historians who wrote down every little thing.
In addition, Nicholas was a believer. Although the Bible does not say about the prohibition of tattoos, but then the church was against it.
This conclusion is just another myth from the Internet.
Of the personalities you named, everyone had tattoos. They were made in different circumstances in early years. Albert Einstein is the owner of the most banal story - a freethinker student, and not too successful, of course, sooner or later he will do something stupid, or rather, a tattoo. Joseph Stalin also did not shine with originality in this matter. The youth of the future generalissimo also had the fact of imprisonment. It was while staying in places not so remote that Stalin got a tattoo - a skull on his forearm. And Nicholas II got his tattoo in the form of a dragon on right hand while on a diplomatic visit to Japan. Would you say exotic? For the beginning of the twentieth century, the most banal story.
In general, tattoos were applied only earlier in places not so remote, that is, in prisons. Each tattoo had its own meaning. It was already at the end of the 20th and in the 21st century that the fashion for tattoos as an ornament came to us. But Tsar Nikolai, a deeply religious person, Stalin or Einstein, would not have allowed himself such a thing. All of them were original personalities, but did not serve time in prison. Therefore, I believe that they supposedly had tattoos a complete invention of their contemporaries.
You can see the tattoos on a naked person, and these individuals were not photographed naked, because the status of the ruler (Stalin and Nicholas II) did not allow such liberties. Most likely, they did not make tattoos - Nicholas II was a deeply religious person, Stalin did not need them - he was not a criminal. Although there is a myth on the Internet that there were tattoos, you should not believe everything that they write.
“You can’t name a single country, from the polar region in the north to New Zealand in the south, whose indigenous people would not decorate their bodies with tattoos,”- this was not said by anyone, but by himself Charles Robert Darwin in his book "The Origin of Man and Sexual Selection" which saw the light of day in 1871.
Indeed, it is very funny to hear phrases like "Today tattoos are in vogue". How can something that existed long before the appearance of states, civilizations, religions come into fashion? There was nothing on planet Earth, but there were already tattoos. Indisputable proof of this is found in the Tyrolean Alps, scientists claim that it is almost 6000 years old.
Perhaps a person became sentient at the moment when he deliberately applied a permanent, indelible pattern to his body. Tattoos were, are and will be! Despite the attitude of society towards this phenomenon, despite the prohibitions and persecution by church organizations. Simply because it is part of human culture.
Joseph Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He had a tattoo of a skull on his chest.
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955. He wore an anchor tattoo on his left forearm.
Thomas Edison
The most famous American inventor of the 19th century, received a total of more than 4,000 patents. It is believed that he was the creator of the first prototype of a mechanical tattoo machine. He made himself a five-point tattoo.
Dorothy Parker
American writer and poet, known for her caustic humor about urban life in the early 20th century. In 1930, being quite drunk, she agreed to a tattoo of a small star at her right elbow.
Elizabeth of Bavaria
Empress of Austria and Hungary during the second half of the 19th century. In 1888, in memory of her visit to Greece, she tattooed an anchor on her left shoulder.
Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States of America from 1829 to 1837. He had a tomahawk tattoo on the inside of his right thigh.
Nicholas II
The last Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty. He ended his reign in 1917. I brought a souvenir from a diplomatic trip to Japan - a full-color dragon tattoo on my right arm.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. On his chest he wore a large-scale tattoo of his family coat of arms.
Queen Victoria
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901. There were rumors that she had tattoos of a tiger and a python in her intimate area.
George Orwell
British writer and publicist of the middle of the 20th century. Introduced the term "cold war" into the political language. In Burma, he made tattoos on the bones of his fingers - blue krgi, which symbolized the struggle against the ruling class of imperialists.
