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The impossible happens

Peter I
Peter I

Phraseologism: The impossible happens.

Meaning: What was considered impossible has become a fact.

Origin: The words that the Russian tsar (since 1682) Peter I (1672-1725) ordered to be stamped on a commemorative medal issued on the occasion of "the never-before-Victoria". So Peter called one of the episodes of the Northern War, when on May 5, 1703, two Swedish ships were taken prisoner not by military courts, but by Russian infantrymen. On May 2, 1703, Russian troops took the Swedish fortress Nienschanz (later razed) at the confluence of the Okhta River with the Neva. With the fall of this fortress, the entire Neva began to belong to Russia - from source to mouth. Soon a squadron of the Swedish Admiral Numers approached the coast, who did not know about the fall of Nyenschantz and intended to enter the Neva, but due to low water temporarily anchored. Two ships with the smallest draft - the ten-gun boat "Gedan" and the eight-gun shnyava "Astril" - approached the very mouth of the Neva. Peter I put the soldiers of the Transfiguration on 30 boats, ordering them to board the Swedish ships. And they succeeded: a "flotilla" of 13 boats with infantrymen commanded by Peter captured the Astril, and soldiers on 17 boats under the command of Alexander Menshikov captured the Gedan.

Random phraseology:

Whatever happens.

Meaning:

It is cited as an ironic commentary on the behavior of a timid, downtrodden, overly cautious person, as well as on the actions of a conformist person who blindly adheres to customs, traditions, and norms of behavior.

Origin:

It is first encountered in "Modern Idyll" by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), in which officials constantly repeat: "No matter how something comes of it!" But this expression became popular thanks to the story of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) "The Man in the Case". The protagonist of this story, teacher Belikov, was an extremely cautious person: “For him, only circulars and newspaper articles were clear, in which something was forbidden ... In permission and permission, an element was always hidden for him, doubtful, something unsaid and vague When a drama club, or a reading room, or a tea room was allowed in the city, he shook his head and said quietly: "It is, of course, so-and-so, it's all wonderful, but whatever happens."

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