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See also:GRIBOYEDOV, See also:ALEXANDER SERGUEEVICH (1795-1829) , See also:Russian dramatic author, was See also:born in 1795 at See also:Moscow, where he studied at the university from 1810 to 1812. He then obtained a See also:commission in a See also:hussar See also:regiment, but resigned it in 1816. Next See also:year he entered the See also:civil service, and in 18i8 was appointed secretary of the Russian See also:legation in See also:Persia, whence he was transferred to See also:Georgia. He had commenced See also:writing See also:early, and had produced on the See also:stage at St See also:Petersburg in 1816 a See also:comedy in See also:verse, translated from the See also:French, called The See also:Young Spouses, which was followed by other pieces of the same See also:kind. But neither these nor the essays and verses which he wrote would have been See also:long remembered but for the immense success gained by his comedy in verse, See also:Gore of uma, or " Misfortune from Intelligence " (Eng. trans. by N. Benardaky, 1857). A See also:satire upon Russian society, or, as a high See also:official styled it, "A See also:pasquinade on Moscow," its See also:plot is slight, its merits consisting in its accurate See also:representation of certain social and official types-such as Famousoff, the See also:lover of old abuses, the hater of reforms; his secretary, Molchanin, servile fawner upon all in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office; the aristocratic young liberal and Anglomaniac, Repetiloff; contrasted with whom is the See also:hero of the piece, Tchatsky, the ironical satirist, just returned from the See also:west of See also:Europe, who exposes and ridicules the weaknesses of the See also:rest, his words echoing that outcry of the young See also:generation of 182o which reached its See also:climax in the military insurrection of 1825, and was then sternly silenced by See also:Nicholas. Griboyedov spent the summer of 1823 in See also:Russia, completed his See also:play and took it to St Petersburg. There it was rejected by the censorship. Many copies were made and privately circulated, but Griboyedov never saw it published. The first edition was printed in 1833, four years after his See also:death. Only once did he see it on the stage, when it was acted by the See also:officers of the See also:garrison at See also:Erivan. Soured by disappointment he returned to Georgia, made himself useful by his linguistic knowledge to his relative See also:Count Paskievitch-Erivansky during a See also:campaign against Persia, and was sent to St Petersburg with the treaty of 1828. Brilliantly received there, he thought of devoting himself to literature, and commenced a romantic See also:drama, A Georgian See also:Night. But he was suddenly sent to Persia as See also:minister-plenipotentiary. Soon after his arrival at See also:Teheran a tumult arose, caused by the anger of the populace against some Georgian and Armenian captives—Russian subjects—who had taken See also:refuge in the Russian See also:embassy. It was stormed, Griboyedov was killed (See also:February 11, 1829), and his See also:body was for three days so See also:ill-treated by the See also:mob that it was at last recognized only by an old scar on the See also:hand, due to a See also:wound received in a See also:duel. It was taken to See also:Tiflis, and buried in the monastery of St See also:David. There a momument was erected to his memory by his widow, to whom he had been but a few months married.
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