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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov or Griboyedov; 15 January 1795 – 11 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer.
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Jan 15, 2015 · Today marks 220 years since the birth of Alexander Griboyedov, author of the great comedy “Woe from Wit.”
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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov ( Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов) (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829) was a Russian diplomat, playwright, and composer. As a writer, he is recognized as a homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy Woe from Wit, still one of the ...
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov (born Jan. 4 [Jan. 15, New Style], 1795, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 30 [Feb. 11], 1829, Tehrān, Iran) was a Russian playwright whose comedy Gore ot uma ( Wit Works Woe) is one of the finest in Russian literature.
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Woe from Wit ( Russian: Го́ре от ума́, romanized : Gore ot uma, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", Wit's End, [1] [2] and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov 's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." [3]
Feb 1, 1999 · February 01, 1999. The Life and Death of the Mushroom Eater. This February, Russia marks the 170th anniversary of the tragic death of poet Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov, who was savagely assassinated in February 1829 in Teheran. Griboyedov was a contemporary of Pushkin, with whom he had common first and patronymic names.
Dec 15, 2002 · GRIBOEDOV, ALEXANDER SERGEEVICH (b. Moscow, 15 January 1794; killed in Tehran, 11 February 1829; Figure 1), Russian writer, poet, and playwright, whose most famous work is the play Gore ot uma (Woe from wit). After graduating from Moscow University with a degree in literature and law, Griboedov first joined the military and then the diplomatic ...
