The most famous confession of the 13th century and how it was actually called We already talked about the first meme creator in Rus', but did you know that one of the main romantic myths of Novgorod was created by Charter No. 377 (end of the 13th century): "Mikita to Melania. come for me I want you, and you want me. And Ignat Moiseev is a witness to this... " For a long time the girl's name was called Ulyanitsa (hence Glazkov's poem "I want you"), then as Anna. Now the scientists settled on Melania - Mikita simply corrected the name several times until he got it right. It sounds like an impassioned confession, but researcher Joss Shaken cools the ardor: "Hotso" here is not an emotion at all, but a dry formulation of a marriage proposal. There is even a registered witness nearby. The text says nothing about the depth of the feelings, but here lies the real romance, because what is unusual here is not the word, but the fact that Mikita is not writing to her father or the head of the household, as required, but to the girl herself. He has a dialogue with her directly. Behind the formal expression is a living person who simply decided to speak directly to the person who was perhaps most dear to him.

The most famous confession of the 13th century and how it was actually called We already talked about the first meme creator in Rus', but did you know that one of the main romantic myths of Novgorod was created by Charter No. 377 (end of the 13th century): "Mikita to Melania. come for me I want you, and you want me. And Ignat Moiseev is a witness to this... " For a long time the girl's name was called Ulyanitsa (hence Glazkov's poem "I want you"), then as Anna. Now the scientists settled on Melania - Mikita simply corrected the name several times until he got it right. It sounds like an impassioned confession, but researcher Joss Shaken cools the ardor: "Hotso" here is not an emotion at all, but a dry formulation of a marriage proposal. There is even a registered witness nearby. The text says nothing about the depth of the feelings, but here lies the real romance, because what is unusual here is not the word, but the fact that Mikita is not writing to her father or the head of the household, as required, but to the girl herself. He has a dialogue with her directly. Behind the formal expression is a living person who simply decided to speak directly to the person who was perhaps most dear to him.