Beautiful women of Hungary. Hungarian beauty queens. They eat paprika anytime, anywhere.

What girl doesn't dream of becoming a beauty queen? Proudly walk the catwalk in a magnificent outfit under the admiring glances of thousands of people, get the coveted royal crown and conquer the whole world?

The first European beauty contest was held in 1888 in the Belgian resort town of Spa, where 21 out of 350 candidates reached the final. An exclusively male jury “examined” their magnificent forms for behind closed doors. The first competition of German beauties took place in the summer of 1909 in the Berlin cabaret "Promenade".

A start has been made!

Hungary took over the European baton in 1925, when the Keszthely Beauty of Keszthely (Keszthelyi Korzó Szépe) competition was held in Keszthely, and then the second, the Balaton Beauty (Balaton Tündére), took place. Both competitions were organized by the city's publication Theater Life (Színházi Élet). It was then that the Hungarian public became aware of the name of Simon Böske, who won both competitions. Unfortunately, it was not possible to find any information about these photo contests.

The first archival photographic evidence is a beauty contest, which was held on August 21, 1927 in Szolnok, on the city beach. He became a real sensation! The competition was organized by the social and cultural publication "Newspaper for All" ("Mindnyájunk Lapja"), the initiator of the competition was the writer and sculptor Szandai Szabó Sándor író, szobrászművész. The announcement of the event appeared in the newspaper and gathered a huge number of spectators on the hot asphalt of the Szolnok embankment. At the same time, the men present at the event were dressed in tailcoats, the women in long dresses.

The first competition, called "Miss Hungary" was organized in January 1929 in the editorial office of the publication "Theatrical Life". Famous writers and actors were invited to the jury of the competition, the jury was headed by the guest of honor, editor-in-chief of the French magazine "Le Journal" Maurice de Waleffe and editor-in-chief of "Theatrical Life" Sandor Ince (Incze Sándor)

There were so many people that the police had to be called.

Of the 218 contenders for the crown of the main beauty, 35 girls were selected in the first round, and four remained in the second round.

The winner was Böschke (Erzibet) Shimon, already known to Hungary for two previous victories four years ago. In an instant, a young girl from the Jewish family of the district head physician turned into the most famous person in the country.

Upon returning home, Böshke Shimon was given a truly royal welcome!!!

When the beauty queen returned home by train, the car, besieged by innumerable admirers, could not leave the East Station for a long time. Only the mounted police were able to restore order. In honor of Böshke Shimon's victory, a ball was given.

Journalists and politicians called the girl's victory nothing less than a national feat that broke the ice of European alienation after the participation and defeat of Hungary in the First World War on the side of Germany.

In 1931, the winner was actress Maria Tasnády-Fekete Mária.

1935 winner Maria Nagy (Nagy Mária)

1936 winner Gábor Sára

Zsa Zsa Gabor, born Shara Gabor (Gábor Sára), was born in Budapest on February 6, 1917 to Vilmos and Yoli Gabor. She received her name, Shari (the Hungarian equivalent of Sarah), in honor of the Hungarian actress Shari Fedak, but due to her underage burr, she could not pronounce it correctly and introduced herself as Zha-zha (Za-za). Subsequently, this name became her stage name. In 1936, Gabor won the Miss Hungary. A year later, she went to Vienna, where tenor Richard Tauber noticed her and invited her to sing the role of soubrette in his new operetta Der singende Traum (Singing Dream) at the Vienna Theatre. Then Zsa Zsa Gabor moved to America.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, in addition to participating in many films, television programs and numerous entertainment performances, has also become one of the most notable stars of social life. Her sense of humor, extravagance and penchant for high-profile scandals and sensations allowed her to maintain her popularity, regardless of the ups and downs of her film career.

In 1985 the ban was lifted and the Hungarian girls were back on the European podium.

Thousands of enthusiastic and envious eyes were fixed on a young girl who was only sixteen years old.

After winning the competition, Chilla was swirled by the circle of obligations stipulated by the contract. Now she no longer belongs to herself - interviews, photo shoots, shows, trips, receptions ... Chilla naively expected only carefree joy and frank admiration of others, but she did not see around her a simple-hearted - admiring glances, no outright friendliness, no propriety, no commercial decency. In fact, she was surrounded only by cultural officials who were hungry for pleasure and money, "all-knowing" pseudo-businessmen.

(about the women of Hungary)

About the women of Eastern Europe: about the women of Hungary
Modern Hungarian - family and society

Hungarian women

When they talk about a Hungarian woman... we often get the image of a Hungarian woman in national dress....

Hungarians are a special people, their whole life revolves around the family. The Hungarian mentality, as well as politics and legislation, are aimed at ensuring that people get married as soon as possible. Therefore, Hungarian women mostly get married before the age of 25. In Hungary, everyone treats love kindly, according to the law intimate relationship with the obligatory mutual consent are allowed from a very young age. Hungary is a southern country, and children mature very early. At the age of 20, almost 90 out of 100 women are in official marriage.

Hungarians have a special attitude towards family and children, so Hungarian women are very sensual, responsible, loving and sincere. Hungarian women prefer to spend Sunday lunch with the whole family, together with children in a restaurant, this is their national tradition. At the same time, the age of children does not matter, even the smallest are taken to the restaurant. In a Hungarian family, everything revolves around the child and his interests. A real holiday is one that the whole family can come to.

Patriarchy of families in Hungary

Hungarian families are patriarchal, this is reinforced by modern law. The woman takes not only a new surname, but also the name of her husband, thus emphasizing that the woman becomes an integral part of her husband. And the Hungarian wife in many ways tries to follow this tradition. Hungarian women always claim that her husband is the most intelligent, lucky, caring, kind and hardworking. But in the house the wife is the main one - it is she who creates comfort in the house, manages the inner life of the family and the household, and brings up children.

Hungarian cuisine

Hungarian housewives prepare traditional Hungarian dishes, and the most characteristic of them is goulash. Goulash are thick soups seasoned with ground red pepper and onion, with pieces of beef and potato cubes. To “soften” the taste, sour cream is added to heavy dishes, in particular, to goulash. ; this dish is called paprikash. Chicken paprikash is eaten with a side dish of small dumplings. Also, Hungarian hostesses like to cook fish soups "fish-paprikash" - a rich dish of several varieties of boiled fish, tomatoes and green and red peppers, thick soups from cabbage leaves, which are wrapped with various fillings, various products made from salty or sweet dough and much more. other. Hungarian cuisine is very diverse and women are happy to pamper their relatives with it.

For the most part, Hungarians are rather limited. Everything they hear on TV from the government, or, for example, at the university from teachers, is accepted as the truth. An architecture professor from Budapest who has lectured all over the world says, for example, that even if the Hungarians say outright nonsense, they will diligently write it down and perform it. While the Serbs, for example, think over every word and love to criticize.

At the same time, the Magyars are very diligent and nerdy. They are attentive to the little things (sometimes even too much), they want to do everything well, they really invest in their work and worry about it. In the same time, good specialists very few. Most are pretty clueless. For example, in a bank, no one ever knows the current rates on deposits, or the conditions of specific accounts, they constantly call back, panic and apologize. At the same time, they really sympathize and root for you.

Most likely, the system that is not debugged is to blame for this. To buy a train ticket to Keleti, even on a weekday morning, you need to stand for at least an hour and a half, although there are six ticket offices. Each person is served for 20 minutes, so you need to perform about a thousand operations. It turns out that even if the cashier does not freeze for a second, it still turns out terribly long.

Hungarians are quite friendly people, quickly making contact. They need to see you a second time in order to easily invite you to visit home, or invite you to a birthday party. They always turn to "you" using a bunch of abbreviated and informal words, even when talking to strangers.

The Magyars love to whine and complain about their fate. They do it only "in the kitchens". For example, if a Hungarian does not like the size of his salary, he will never tell his boss about it in person. Rather, it will whine at home to his wife. In this they are masters.

At the same time, if something really knocks them off balance, they can still join in active resistance. Take, for example, the bill on the Internet, which included a monthly tax on gigabytes. This pissed people off so much that almost 100 thousand people took to the streets, even leaving a little with stones. In general, given that they have lived in real democracy for 20 years, and in totalitarianism for the last two years, they have a good idea of ​​how it should be, and therefore they can take to the streets for the idea. Although it is against the Hungarian nature.

Hungarians are maniacally polite. Even the controller on the bus refers to some homeless woman only as “dear lady, would you mind showing your travel card?”

In general, these guys are normal for the most part. Almost no one speaks English. But nothing, we are already accustomed to getting by with gestures.

Of course, when you come to Hungary, it is difficult to notice a big difference between our mentalities, habits, ways of life. The window to Europe has been cut long ago, and the distance between Russia and Hungary on a planetary scale is quite insignificant. But it is all the more interesting to notice the differences in completely different aspects of life and take them into service.

Perhaps the most important thing that the Hungarians taught me is not to think stereotypically, not to try on yourself, family, friends, invented patterns by no one knows who and not to hang in outdated frameworks, in “public opinions”, in which you sometimes get stuck like in a vise. Now it’s funny to me when Russian girls call themselves old maids at 25 and are afraid to give birth when they are over 40. Hungarian women are in no hurry to get married and often only begin to think about a family by the age of 30. And before that, they just live and enjoy, and do not do everything in order to find a husband! The situation is the same with children. Sometimes on the playground it is not immediately clear who is walking with the child - a mother or a young grandmother.

Hungarian women taught me easy motherhood, motherhood without unnecessary problems, motherhood, where the main thing is love for the child and the comfort of mother and baby. On the very first day in the hospital, my roommates ate oranges and chocolate. Someone crunched chips. I do not know a single Hungarian woman who limited herself in some way during breastfeeding. And although this may not be related, but, according to my observations, there are fewer children with allergies here. The first day in the maternity hospital taught me one more thing, surprising for us. Almost immediately after the birth, the whole happy family, including grandparents, comes to the hospital with balloons, gifts, congratulations (as well as oranges and chocolate, read above). Try not to show them the new long-awaited Hungarian! Through glass door chambers, they look at the baby, and the mother can go out to them. Hungarians are very fond of children, so on the street often, passing by a cradle, it is completely strangers stop, look at your child, make compliments and, sometimes, start talking about their children-grandchildren. And you know, nothing happens to the kids from such attention and "look" does not happen. As for the Hungarian devices, the Hungarians taught me how to use orshi-porshy. This is such a small miracle machine that perfectly sucks the snot from children. True, in order for it to work, it must be connected ... to a vacuum cleaner! Unusually, the first time is scary, but copes with the task by 5 points.

Despite the fact that Hungary, like Russia, is a patriarchal country, women seem to feel freer here. Let me give you a borderline, but illustrative example. I am writing this article in a cozy cafe owned by a former pornographic actress, now a businesswoman and a wonderful mother. Budapest is the capital of the porn industry. I will not say that many Hungarian women decide to make a career as a porn actress. I will say this: there are Hungarian women who go into the porn business and openly talk about it to their families. And Hungarian women in many ways demand respect for their decisions, in many ways they show freedom, even if it goes against the ideals, hopes of their parents, and foundations. And this courage - the courage to live your life the way you want it - I want to learn.

Food is a cult in Hungary, so it is not surprising that many Hungarians are excellent cooks and generally excellent housewives. The Hungarians taught me separate ... no, not nutrition! Separate storage of soup. If you keep the broth and vegetables separately, the soup will last longer. Bread that can go bad, and it is not possible to eat it, can be put in the freezer. It defrosts in a few hours room temperature without losing your palatability and not damp. Pomegranate, grapes and watermelon can be eaten with pits, they do not believe that this will lead to appendicitis.

And finally, perhaps, I will add a fly in the ointment. When we live in a foreign country, we also notice shortcomings. For me, Hungarian women could look and dress better. There are two extremes. The first is Hungarian women who do not take care of themselves at all, do not wear makeup and dress casually. You can often see that the mistress of the house, who beautifully decorated the apartment and prepared the table just like a feast with a mountain, comes out to the guests almost in an apron, in worn home clothes. In such cases, even the natural beauty of Hungarian women - and they are really very beautiful - does not save! And there are Hungarian women who overdo it with breast plastic surgery, false eyelashes and extended nails. Here pride wakes up for our Russian girls, who, perhaps, sometimes in vain give priority to beauty, not comfort, but they know how to walk on Louboutins and do their best to keep themselves in shape and look well-groomed and stylish, but not vulgar and defiant.

Hungarians - the largest (14.5 million people) of the Finno-Ugric peoples, belong to the Ugric group.
The alleged ancestral home of the Hungarians is the region east of the Urals. Unlike their closest linguistic relatives - the Khanty and Mansi, who remained in the taiga - the Hungarians went to the steppes and began to lead an almost nomadic lifestyle. In the 9th century AD the Hungarians roamed the southern Russian steppes until they were driven out by the Pechenegs, after which the Hungarians were forced to move west. In 896, the Hungarians settled in Transylvania, from where they took possession of Pannonia. In 1001 the Kingdom of Hungary was formed.
Currently, 8.5 million Hungarians live in Hungary. There are large Hungarian diasporas in neighboring Romania (1.2 million) and the USA (1.5 million).
Hungarians profess Catholicism and Protestantism (mainly Calvinism).
This rating presents the most beautiful, in my opinion, famous Hungarian girls and women.

20th place. Claudia Kozma / Claudia Kozma- Hungarian model, represented Hungary at Miss International 2012.

19th place. Anett Szigethy- Hungarian fitness model, Miss Supranational 2013.

18th place. Andrea Osvart / Andrea Osvart(born April 25, 1979, Budapest) - Hungarian actress and model.

17th place. Barbara Palvin / Barbara Palvin(born October 8, 1993, Budapest) is a Hungarian model and actress. Height 175 cm, figure parameters: chest 81 cm, waist 66 cm, hips 95 cm.

16th place. Eva Gabor / Eva Gabor(February 11, 1919, Budapest - July 4, 1995) - American actress. Born and raised in Hungary. Her father is Hungarian and her mother is Jewish.

15th place. Catherine Bagala / Chätrin Bagala(1968, Estonia - June 6, 2012, Hungary) - Soviet actress of Hungarian origin. She played a major role in the fairy tale film Carolina Silver Yarn (1984). This is her only film role.

Catherine Bagala in Carolina Silver Yarn (1984)

14th place. Eniko Mihalik / Enikő Mihalik(born May 11, 1987, Bekescsaba, Hungary) is a Hungarian model. Height 179 cm, parameters 84-61-87.

13th place. Teri Tordai / Teri Tordai(born December 28, 1941, Debrecen, Hungary) - Hungarian actress.

12th place. Anita Hudacek / Anita Hudacek(b. May 27, 1976, Budapest), better known as Anita Blond / Anita Blond, - actress and fashion model. From 1995 to 2001 she starred in more than 100 porn films. In 1999, for the first time she played in a non-pornographic film, namely in the arthouse film "The Wind in the Night" / "Le Vent de la nuit", where Catherine Deneuve played the main role, and Anita herself played a prostitute. Anita's height is 172 cm, figure parameters are 92-59-92. It is worth noting that Anita Blond has never done breast augmentation, which is popular among porn actresses.

11th place. Annamaria Rákosi / Annamária Rákosi- Representative of Hungary at the Miss World 2013 pageant.

10th place. Katalin Koller / Katalin Koller- Miss Hungary 2007.

9th place. - Hungarian model.

8th place. Ildiko Pecsi / Ildiko Pécsi(born May 21, 1941) is a Hungarian actress and director.

7th place. Zita Szelecki / Zita Szelecky(April 20, 1915, Budapest - July 12, 1999) - Hungarian actress.

6th place. Eva Szőke(June 18, 1927, Budapest - August 1, 1998), better known as Eva Bartok / Eva Bartok - British actress. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Hungarian Catholic. Since Jews belong to a nation by their mother, Eva Bartok was included in the rating of the most beautiful Hungarian women, and not in.

5th place. Agnes Dobo / Ágnes Dobo(born September 5, 1988, Debrecen) - the winner of the Hungarian selection for Miss World in 2010. However, she could not go to Miss World, because. broke her arm shortly before the competition.

4th place. Orshoya "Orshi" Kocsis / Orsolya "Orsi" Kocsis(born September 6, 1984, Debrecen) - Hungarian fashion model. Height 175 cm, figure parameters 91-63-89.

3rd place. Eva Serenci / Eva Szerencsi(May 5, 1952, Budapest - September 6, 2006) - Hungarian actress.

2nd place. Ebergeny River / Reka Ebergeny(born 1982, Budapest) is a Hungarian model. Height 178 cm, figure parameters 89-59-89.

1 place. Catherine Schell / Catherine Schell(born July 17, 1944, Budapest) is a British actress of Hungarian origin. Real name - Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott / Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott. Despite the German surname (inherited from her German great-grandfather), Katherine Schell is almost completely Hungarian by blood, her parents belonged to the Hungarian nobility: her father bore the title of baron, and her mother was a countess.
Most famous movies with her participation: the 6th Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969, the role of Nancy), "Moon 02" (1969, the role of Clementine), "The Return of the Pink Panther" (1975, the role of Lady Claudine Lytton). In the UK, the actress is best known for her role as Maya in the 1970s sci-fi series Space: 1999.

Katherine Shell in the film "Moon 02" (1969):