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It seems that soon everyone's childhood will be ruined. Winnie the Pooh is not a bear. It's a bear, and she's from Canada, not England.
Pooh's story
From a new book dedicated to history Winnie the Pooh, it turns out that the legendary teddy bear was named after the black bear at London Zoo, whose name is Winnie - short for Winnipeg. 
And at the same time she is from Canada. The new book was written by Lindsay Mattick, the great-granddaughter of the soldier who was one of those who helped the bear end up at the zoo. His name was Lieutenant Harry Colburn, and he bought a bear for just twenty dollars during the First World War. They became inseparable comrades until he had to leave Winnie at the London Zoo because he had to go with his unit to France. 
The writer, along with illustrator Sophie Blackall, wanted to publish a book to show how beloved the bear was. However, the story has a happy ending - the bear quickly found a new friend in the person of a boy who came to the zoo quite often. And his name was Christopher Robin. Little Christopher even named his teddy bear Winnie. Who was Christopher's father? That's right, Alexander Milne.
At the end of October, the book of the Canadian writer Lindsay Mattick “Finding Winnie” was published, in which she told who became the prototype of the well-known character Winnie the Pooh from the novels and short stories of the writer Alexander Milne.
Winnie is a black bear. She was born in Ontario at the outbreak of the First World War.
In 1914, Canadian veteran, soldier and traveler Lieutenant Harry Colebourn bought Winnie from a hunter for $20. Since then they have been inseparable.
Coleburn loved the bear so much that he made it the unofficial symbol of his regiment. He named it Winnipeg (or Winnie) after the capital of Manitoba and Canada's third largest city. It was supposed to remind the soldiers of their homeland.
As the intensity of the fighting increased, Coleburn and his soldiers were forced to relocate to France and leave Winnie in England. At this time she lived in the zoo. The military man donated the bear to him.
A frequent visitor to that zoo was a boy named Christopher Robin, the son of Alexander Milne.
The boy named his teddy bear after him. He also had other toys - Piglet, Tigger, Roo and Eeyore. They are still kept in New York public library.
Released in England A new book for children with telling name“Finding Vini” became a revelation not only for the main readers, but also for their parents. They write there that Vinnie was actually female, brunette and from Canada. Of course, in all the cartoons, although Winnie the Pooh was without pants, he was implied to be male.
Canadian Army Lieutenant Harry Colborne, who was also a veterinarian, rode on a Western Front to help the horses, and on the railroad platform in the town of White River bought a bear cub for $20 from a hunter who most likely shot the bear.
He named the bear cub in honor hometown Winnipeg. Together with Winnie, Colborne traveled to the coast of Canada and went to England, where they spent months before Colborne was sent to France. Winnie remained in the zoo in England because Harry believed that she would not be safe in France.
And as a result, after the war, Colborn left Winnie in this zoo, where she lived for almost 20 years.
Winnie was very popular among visitors to the zoo, where Alan Milne came along with his son Christopher Robin, who loved the bear cub very much and even renamed his toy in honor of Winnie, although the toy’s original name was Edward, which is why in Milne’s book “When We Were Little” " (1924) Edward the Bear first appeared.
The bear was first mentioned in a poem that was first published in Punch magazine and then published in Milne's book of children's poems, When We Were Very Little, in 1924. Soon Winnie the Pooh was joined by Christopher Robin and the rest of his favorite characters - Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and Kanga. I told you something, but unfortunately I ignored this.
Do you know what they really looked like?
Christopher Robin Milne with the teddy bear that inspired Winnie the Pooh. 1925, Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
A. A. Milne and Christopher Robin Milne play with a toy penguin. 1924 Photo: Culture Club / Getty Images
As a child, Christopher Robin enjoyed being the inspiration for the character from popular stories. But at school, his classmates often teased him, and fame no longer brought him joy.
He studied English at Cambridge and served in a battalion in the Corps of Royal Engineers during the Second World War.
In 1948, Christopher Robin married his cousin Leslie de Selincourt. Together they opened a bookstore.
Despite the discomfort caused by fame, Christopher Robin used his fame when he campaigned to stop oil exploration in Ashdown Forest. It was this place that inspired Alexander Milne to write about the Deep Forest, in which he settled his famous characters.
Christopher Robin Milne died in 1996 at the age of 75.
Christopher Robin Milne, 61, unveils a bear statue dedicated to his father at London Zoo. September 1981 Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
What happened to Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger? They moved to New York. Christopher Robin gave the toys to the editor of the Pooh book, who donated them to the New York Public Library in 1987, where they have been on display ever since.
Teddy bear Edward, who served as inspiration for the creation of Winnie the Pooh. Photo: New York Public Library
Original Tiger. Photo: New York Public Library
The original Eeyore. Photo: New York Public Library
The original Piglet. Photo: New York Public Library.
But for us, of course, Winnie the Pooh will always remain like this:
Initially, the second part of Winnie the Pooh's name, Pooh, was given to him in honor of a swan who lived with friends of the Milns. IN English language it sounds like "Poo". But Boris Zakhoder, in what he called his retelling of the story, originally played up the meaning of fluff as a derivative of the word “plump.” Although less obvious associations can also be considered: Winnie the bear is as frivolous and naive as poplar fluff.
While maintaining the general outline of the narrative, Boris Zakhoder adapted the English humor and word games of A. Milne, which is not always understandable to the Russian reader. At the same time, he allowed himself to introduce a lot of new things into the domestic version of the story about the bear cub. This is both a greater fabulousness and a more active use of such techniques as the use capital letters, animation of inanimate objects. B. Zakhoder's characters are more emotional, lively, closer to the culture of the Russian people. He organically intertwined the two different cultures. Although it is worth admitting that his attempt was not immediately accepted: interestingly, the writer’s translation and retelling was initially rejected as overly “Americanized.”
