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Nobody writes to the Colonel

Gabriel García Márquez

Phraseologism: Nobody writes to the colonel.

Meaning: Quoted as a comment (reproach, complaint) about loneliness, loss of contact with loved ones, lack of information, etc.

Origin: From Spanish: "El colonel no quen le escriba". The title of the story (1961) by the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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Whoever comes to us with a sword will perish by the sword!

Meaning:

It is cited as a warning and warning for the future of a defeated or potential aggressor.

Origin:

It is generally accepted that these words belong to the Novgorod prince Alexander Nevsky, the hero of the battle with the Swedes on the Neva and with the crusader knights on Lake Peipus. And he said them supposedly as a warning to the ambassadors of the Livonian Order, who, after the Battle of the Ice (in the summer of 1242), came to him in Veliky Novgorod to ask for "eternal peace." In fact, Alexander Nevsky has nothing to do with these words - in the few chronicle sources that tell about him ("The Sofia First Chronicle" and "The Pskov Second Chronicle") there is no mention of either these words or others, even remotely on them similar. The author of these words is the Soviet writer Pyotr Andreevich Pavlenko (1899-1951), and they first appeared in his film script "Alexander Nevsky". They, according to the script, are pronounced by the protagonist of the film: Whoever enters us with a sword will die from the sword. On that stood and stands the Russian land! (see: Pavlenko N. A. Alexander Nevsky: Film story // Collected works. T. 4. M., 1954). The film (directed by Sergei Eisenstein) was released on December 1, 1938, and since then these words have been associated with the name of Alexander Nevsky as his personal, "historical" phrase. Obviously, this phrase is based on the well-known gospel expression: "Those who take the sword will perish by the sword." Or in full: "Then Jesus said to him: return your sword to its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (Gospel of Matthew, 26:52). A similar expression was well known in the ancient world, in pre-evangelical times. For example, in ancient Rome it was used as a catchphrase: Whoever fights with a sword dies by the sword - Qui gladio ferit, gladio perit.

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