Alexandre Griboïedov

Alexandre Sergueïevitch Griboïedov (in Russian: АлександрСергеевичГрибоедов ), born with Moscow the January 15th 1795 and died in Teheran the February 11th 1829, is a dramatic author, type-setter and diplomatic Russian.

Griboïedov studies with the Université of Moscow of 1810 to 1812. It obtains then a patent in a regiment of hussards, but is withdrawn in 1816. The following year, it enters the civil service. It is affected as a secretary of Russian legation in Perse, then transferred in Georgia. It starts to write young person and, in 1816, produced with Saint-Petersbourg a comedy in worms entitled the Young Wives (Молодыесупруги), followed other works of the same style. But none of these works reaches the popularity of the book Misfortune to have too much spirit (Гореотума, is word-with-word misfortune due to the spirit), a Satire of the Russian aristocracy. He is not this success of alive sound.

Of return, disappointed, in Georgia, it makes useful by its knowledge of the Persian language near his relative the count Ivan Paskevich during the war Russo-Persian of 1826-1828. It is sent to Saint-Pétersbourg at the time of the Traité of Turkmanchai of 1828. Receipt brilliantly, it thinks of being able to devote itself to the Littérature and starts the drafting of a romantic drama , One night géorgienne (Грузинскаяночь), but he is sudden envoy in Persia as a minister Plénipotentiaire. Shortly after its arrival with Teheran, a crowd of fanatics attacks the Russian embassy. Griboïedov, as well as the near total of the personnel, is assassinated and its body if is maltreated during three days by the crowd which it can be recognized only thanks to one scar on one with his hands, to remember a duel.

It is taken along to Tbilissi and is buried with the Monastère of Saint-David. Its widow Nina Griboïedova (girl of its friend Alexandre Chavchavadze), whom it had married a few months before, there raises a monument in its memory.

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