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*"Time, expressed in biochemistry by a change of generations, enters into the properties of living matter to the extent that it does not enter into any other phenomenon on our planet."
Academician Vladimir VERNADSKY*

According to legend, Christ, having tried to rest on the way to Golgotha ​​from one of the houses, received a fierce rebuff from his master AGASFER. As one of the interpretations of those events (it occurs in Guido Bonitti, in Dante in the "Divine Comedy", by Maxim Gorky), accompanied by a convoy and a hysterical crowd, Jesus moved forward with a heavy cross on his shoulders, but before this he said only one phrase to the offender: For this you will live forever! "That was a terrible punishment, for, if you believe all the same legends," The Eternal Jew "(as it was later dubbed) has been wandering around the world for more than 1960 years in search of forgiveness.
 And indeed, European historians have noticed a strange pattern: in different centuries in any of the European countries a completely unknown rich and highly educated gentleman always appeared, no one at that never knew his real parents, place of birth and relatives. The names of these gentlemen were completely different, but the appearance is approximately the same. On suspicious questions of contemporaries (including about the Christ's curse), they all answered evasively. Not having changed a few dozen years, these people usually disappeared "in English" without saying goodbye, i.e. without burial.
 One of these gentlemen is a mysterious lord (he is also a count) SEN-GERMEN (official years of life - from 1710 to 1784). Having appeared in 1750 in Paris, he aroused the memory of elderly aristocrats, who remembered that they saw him in the salons of their grandmothers. From the fact that the old women heard of St. Germain as a child, it turned out that the count was no less than four hundred years old! It was believed that earlier this same person called himself the philosopher and alchemist ARTIFUS (lived in the XII century, claimed to have lived 1025 years), a little later - Apollonius of TIAN, and only 5 centuries later - Saint Germain. In 1784, the newspaper published an official report on the death of Saint-Germain, but the Count's acquaintances met him many years and decades later. And they found that he had not changed at all. Napoleon-3 ordered to collect everything that the archives kept about Saint-Germain, but when it was done, the archive completely burned down. In 1938, a message flashed through that Saint-Germain lived in Venice.
 The second contender for the title of immortal is the famous French astrologer Jean Julien FULKANELI, who is also SHAMPAN Julien (the official dates of his life 1877 - 1932), the author of the famous work "Philosophical dwelling". Fulcaneli's disciples were French esoteric Jules Bosche and Eugène KANSALE, according to them, the teacher had the secret of an immortal powder. According to numerous eyewitness accounts, Fulcaneli was allegedly met after his alleged death.
 The third (and not the last) in this glorious cohort is the French esoteric Nicola FLAMEL (1330-1418?), Who was allegedly met even in 3 centuries in 1700 in a Turkish monastery.
 There are also stories about Priest Epimenides from the island of Crete, about a certain Indian old man and German Papalius who lived at least 300, 370 and 500 years, respectively. Legends and legends about super-long-living and ever-living are more than enough.
 Look at the faces of our contemporaries living at the end of the 20th century, perhaps the damned two thousand-year-old man (almost said "old man") is among us? Applicants for his role, as always, enough. However, with his mind and experience it is not difficult to hide from prying eyes ...