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Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov
Александр Грибоедов
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15 January 1795 - 11 February 1829
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Alexander Griboyedov is a Russian poet, author of the comedy “Woe from Wit”, one of the great works that has become an inexhaustible source of catchphrases. He was born in 1795 in Moscow by Sergey Ivanovich Griboyedov and Anastasia Fedorovna Griboyedova. At the age of fifteen, Alexander Griboyedov graduated from Moscow University. He served in the Moscow Hussar Regiment during the war in 1812. In 1814, the first works appeared in the literary field (“Letter from Brest-Litovsk to the Publisher”,
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Alexander Griboyedov is a Russian poet, author of the comedy “Woe from Wit”, one of the great works that has become an inexhaustible source of catchphrases. He was born in 1795 in Moscow by Sergey Ivanovich Griboyedov and Anastasia Fedorovna Griboyedova.
At the age of fifteen, Alexander Griboyedov graduated from Moscow University. He served in the Moscow Hussar Regiment during the war in 1812. In 1814, the first works appeared in the literary field (“Letter from Brest-Litovsk to the Publisher”, “Young Spouses”, “On Cavalry Reserves”). In the same year he moved to St. Petersburg, where he later served in the College of Foreign Affairs.
Two years later, the comedy "Student" appeared from the pen of Alexander Griboyedov, as well as "Pretending Infidelity" in collaboration with Andrei Andreyevich Zhandr and "My Family, or Married Bride", written in collaboration with Alexander Alexandrovich Shakhovsky and Nikolai Ivanovich Khmelnitsky.
Alexander Griboyedov tried himself as a composer and wrote two waltzes that survived to our days. In 1828, in Tiflis, Griboyedov married Nina Chavchavadze, and a year later he died in Persia during a visit to the second Shah of Persia Feth Ali Shah. /