Most scholars believe that Bram Stoker based his evil count Dracula on a real-life 15th-century prince in Wallachia, Romania. Source: “British Film Inst.” History of Vlad the Impaler a.k.a Vlad Dracula This article was amended on 11 December 2022 to correct an instance of misspelling of Bram Stoker’s surname.An iconic part of Dracula history, “Nosferatu,” the original movie based on Dracula in 1922. Zilberstein said: “With our analysis, we expect to receive a snapshot of a molecular portrait of Vlad Dracula when he wrote or signed these letters – that is, his health, what he ate and what the atmosphere was like around. In the case of Vlad Dracula, this included a letter he wrote to the people of Sibiu, which is located in present-day Romania, on 4 August 1475, informing them he would shortly take up residence in their town.

Zilberstein said the analysis provides a snapshot of that person’s lifestyle and the factors in the environment around them when they handled whatever piece of evidence is being worked upon. After Chekhov, we began to investigate George Orwell’s letter to Moscow and found traces of tuberculosis, which he contracted in Spain.” Chekhov suffered from tuberculosis and used various substances as painkillers, but he died of a stroke. We analysed the shirt in which he died and his last letter. “After Bulgakov, we took up Anton Chekhov.

Gleb Zilberstein said: “We found traces of morphine and kidney pathology proteins in the pages of the manuscript, proving he wrote it while under the influence of drugs that he used to relieve acute pain in the kidneys. Together with Professor Pier Giorgio Righetti of the Polytechnic University of Milan, they developed the biochemical analysis used to extract proteins from items touched or worn by people long dead.Their first experiment was on the original manuscript of The Master and Margarita by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The Zilbersteins were born in Kazakhstan and for the last 26 years have lived and worked from Tel Aviv, Israel. “These molecules are more stable than DNA and provide more information about the environmental conditions, health, lifestyle, nutrition of the historical person to whom the historical molecules belonged.” We mainly determine proteins and metabolites.” That is, to determine the molecular composition and age of historical molecules. “When ‘historical biomolecules’ are found, we begin to analyse them. He said: “Our job is to find the biochemical traces left from the time when the historical object was created or when it was used by some historical figure. Zilberstein’s sense of the theatrical belies the pioneering science at the heart of what he and Svetlana do. A letter written by Vlad Dracula in 1475 to the people of Sibiu informing them he would be taking up residence in their town.

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