Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
- Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
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▪ Russian dramatist
Griboyedov also spelled Griboedov
born Jan. 4 [Jan. 15, New Style], 1795, Moscow, Russia
died Jan. 30 [Feb. 11], 1829, Tehrān, Iran
Russian playwright whose comedy Gore ot uma (Wit Works Woe) is one of the finest in Russian literature.
Griboyedov was a graduate of Moscow University, and he led an active and eventful life; he joined the hussars during the war of 1812 against Napoleon and served in White Russia. After resigning his commission in 1816, he lived in St. Petersburg, where he joined the diplomatic service and was appointed secretary in the Russian mission in Tehrān. A friend of Aleksandr Pushkin and a sympathizer with the Decembrist revolt of 1825 against Nicholas I, he was arrested in the following year but soon released. In 1828 he was appointed Russian minister in Tehrān. He died there at the hands of a mob that attacked the Russian embassy.
Although Griboyedov left an interesting correspondence and several plays, which include
Molodye suprugi (1815; “Young Married People”) and
Student (1817; “The Student”), his reputation rests on a single work—
Gore ot uma (1822–24;
Wit Works Woe, 1933), a satirical play in rhymed iambic lines of varying length. Production of the play was prohibited and only fragments of it were published during Griboyedov's lifetime. To Russians it has become their most important play, with the possible exception of Gogol's
Revizor. The style is a masterpiece of conciseness, colloquialism, and wit, so that many of Griboyedov's lines have become proverbial. The same is true of many of the characters: Chatski, the
hero, and especially those through which Griboyedov satirizes the old-fashioned Russia of bribery, place-seeking, and
pomposity. Together with Pushkin's hero Yevgeny Onegin, Chatski is the first example in Russian literature of the “superfluous man,” a type much discussed later by critics.
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