How much is the overcoat Akaky, what was in the purse of the old woman-prozentsatz, what kind of bribe I gave next day, and Koroviev Nikanor Bosoi, how many Balls are pulled down at Professor Preobrazhensky? The magazine “Kommersant-Weekend” tried to translate mentioned in the famous works of Russian literature of the monetary amount in modern currency. The review covers the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and other classics…
The author does not translate the amount directly by some standard algorithm. To match the purchasing power of the same currency units in various historical periods, he sought in modern Russia, people with a social role similar to that of the occupation of the characters of a work. Then evaluated what it meant or that the amount for the hero then, and what the money will be equivalent to its counterpart today.
1. The name of Savelyevich of “Captain’s daughter” not everyone will remember, but the fact that the hare tulupchik, presented in 1773 by Petrushka Grineva thief hypnotherapy, estimated at $ 15 it is well-known: Savelyevich it in this amount and appreciated.
The costs of modern Muscovites (and Grinev can undoubtedly navigate in the cost of clothing for residents of the capital — though he is still a hick, but not poor) clothing is about 10-15% of the costs, or about 100 thousand rubles in the modern year.
Now Grinev would have spent on all lost about 1 million rubles (to buy something should be in 10 times more), and rabbit tulupchik, therefore, would be the equivalent of 140 thousand rubles.”
2. Ilya Rostov gives son for a few months at a cost of 2 thousand rubles — now it would be $50 thousand Plays Nicholas Write in 20 times more — about $1 million.
It is clear that Ilya Andreevich for a few days will gather this amount and finally it is the family of Growth not ruin.
3. 100 rubles would Lefty, if it weren’t for his London spree, not to work at home 3-4 years, while retaining the familiar spending. In terms of the average salary in Tula in 2014 — 25 thousand rubles – at the hands of the left-hander has received from Platov for the shoeing fleas about 800 thousand rubles. current rubles.
However, now what was a busy left-hander, called “nanotechnologies”, and the rates are quite different.
4. Today we are easy to understand him: he wants from just a rich man who has inherited a measly 4-5 million dollars in the Bank to have $40 million, winning them the multimillionaire Chekalinsky. Or, if we consider for rubles, 2.5 billion rubles.
5. 200 rubles in cash (four times less than silver) really big bribe? Food low in Russia then provided the income in 1,5–2 rubles silver per month: if you consider this a minimum for regions of the Russian Federation now is $ 7-8 thousand rubles (this is usually the case), Khlestakov, overspend in the road, immediately got a loan for small expenses current 200 thousand rubles.
6. Mining Raskolnikov — 317 rubles 60 kopecks: that’s how much was in the purse of an old woman-prozentsatz placed them noticeable beneath the stone after a double murder and robbery. Raskolnikov, who had studied previously at the lawyer, enters the bottom decile of the population income: in the beginning of the XX century that artisans, workers, beggars, prisoners. A slumlord kept in the purse three-year income Raskolnikov.
In 2013, according to a study by the Institute of sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 23% of the poorest people in Russia had a median income per month of about 8,8 thousand roubles in Three-year income Raskolnikov now would be modern 320 thousand rubles.
7. Absolutely not interested in the money the idiot Myshkin still knows how much they have. Therefore 100 thousand rubles, which Nastasya Filippovna left to be burned in the fireplace, — a sum very considerable in any study, but here, on the fireplace of the beholder, not surprising.
In the lit-up stack (as we remember, took it out almost not affected) is about 30 times less than he has: on current account of about $130 million in cash. Now would this in any fireplace not got: 8 billion.
8. According to the “Experience of calculating national income” Stepanova, published in 1906, the average monthly income of servants and workers in Russia in 1901, not far distant from the time of Boldueva was 10 rubles 43 kopecks.
Salary of a provincial Barber or a plumber is not the best now is about 20-25 thousand rubles. someone will remember the name James Ovsova, could get the prize about 10 thousand rubles.
9. The minimum price of vodka (and of Balls with friends, of course, used the cheapest) in 2015 is 185 rubles per half-liter bottle. So, now for the same purpose without five minutes the employee section of the cleaning commonhouse at the feast, which cost in 1924, two gold pieces, would have spent about 5.5 thousand rubles.
10. In North American United States money as the superintendent of a residential condominium Barefoot would have earned in three to four months in new York annual salary for those occupations amounted in 1932 to $1.5 thousand But we should not exaggerate. At the rate of $400 that time, inflation in the U.S. is now $9 thousand: the house can not buy.
