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Video: Shirali Muslimov - Soviet shepherd who lived for 168 years
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the official record holder for life expectancy is French citizen Jeanne Kelman. She passed away at the age of 122. However, in the USSR there was a long-liver and older. This is a Talysh by nationality, Shirali Muslimov, who lived for 168 years.
Pot as a birth certificate
At the very beginning of the 19th century, in the mountains, in the village of Barzavu (Azerbaijan), a new Talysh was born. This was Shirali Farzali oglu Muslimov. By the way, the Talysh are exactly the people among whose representatives the oldest people on the planet are most often found. For example, the notorious Mahmud Eyvazov, who lived for 152 years, was also a Talysh. And Shirali's parents lived a lot: his mother died at the age of 90, and his father at 110.
Shirali Muslimov was born on March 26, 1805. It was this date, month, and most importantly the year that were indicated in the passport of the future centenarian. However, Muslimov never had a birth certificate. Some mountain dwellers wrote down the dates of birth of their children on the pages of the family Koran, while others did it on clay pots, which were then buried in the soil. Shirali's parents chose the second option. It was due to the lack of a birth document that Muslimov's record was not recognized, so to speak, officially.
Fertile long-liver
Muslimov lived his entire long life in the same place where he was born, in Barzava. For more than 150 years he worked as a shepherd (that is, a shepherd). In general, Shirali's grandfather did not sit idle for a second almost until his last days. He himself looked after the garden on a par with his great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. By the way, according to various sources, the entire Shirali family numbered more than 150-200 people.
But, apparently, this did not seem enough to Muslimov. The 136-year-old shepherd entered into another marriage. His chosen one was a woman who turned out to be 79 years younger than her husband. She was 57. Moreover, the newlyweds soon had a daughter. Therefore, if we assume that Shirali's age corresponds to reality, then, in addition to longevity, he is also the oldest father on the planet.
The secret to a long life
Shirali Muslimov died on September 2, 1973. However, even during his lifetime, he still managed to become not only a local, but also an all-Union celebrity. Party leaders came to congratulate Muslimov on this or that holiday, journalists wrote articles about him, invited him to television, made films.
During all 168 years, Shirali Muslimov did not drink alcohol or smoke. He ate honey, cheese, various fruits and vegetables, drank water from a spring and special herbal teas. On duty, he walked with his herd a dozen or two kilometers. And so, day after day, year after year. Probably, the most important secret of his longevity Muslimov considered labor. “You always have to work, idleness breeds laziness, laziness breeds death,” he said. However, to a direct question about the secret of a long life, Shirali always answered honestly: “I don’t know”.
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