Alexander Gribojédov

The Profile

Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (1795–1829) was a Russian playwright and diplomat, best known for the play Woe from Wit. He died in Tehran while on diplomatic service.

Author of Woe from Wit (final draft 1824); the play circulated clandestinely and was censored in his lifetime. Griboyedov served as a diplomat to Persia and was killed in Tehran in 1829. The provided review notes he knew six languages (English, French, Italian, German, Arabic, and Persian) and mentions a 1954 Bur edition translated by Natascia Baranowski and Paolo Santarone.

A detailed review that frames Gribojédov's life and premature death (1829) within Russian history, emphasises his play Woe from Wit as seminal, notes censorship and clandestine circulation, and mentions a 1954 Bur edition translation.