Alexander Griboyedov

Alexander Griboyedov

Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov or Sergeevich Griboyedov; 15 January 1795 – 11 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. His one notable work was the 1823 verse comedy Woe from Wit. He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where he and all the embassy staff were massacred by an angry mob as a result of the rampant anti-Russian sentiment that existed through Russia's imposing of the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) and Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828), which had forcefully ratified for Persia's ceding of its northern territories comprising Transcaucasia and parts of the North Caucasus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Griboyedov has received more than 259,863 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Alexander Griboyedov is the 731st most popular writer (up from 899th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Russia (up from 298th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Writer.

Alexander Griboyedov is most famous for writing the comedy Woe from Wit, which was published in 1823.