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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov or Griboyedov; 15 January 1795 – 11 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, [2] was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer.
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Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума; also translated as "The Woes of Wit," "Wit Works Woe," etc.) is Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow." Its plot is slight; its merits are to be found in its accurate representation of certain social an...
Mirsky, D. P. A History of Russian Literature from its Beginnings to 1900. Edited by D. S. Mirsky and Francis J. Whitfield. New York: Vintage Books, 1958. ISBN 0810116790Terras, Victor. A History of Russian Literature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. ISBN 0756761484This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.All links retrieved May 15, 2021. 1. Горе от ума– full text in Russian 2. Горе от ума– full text in Russian at Alexei Komarov's Internet Library 3. Woe from Wit– full text of English translation by A Vagapov, 1993 4. The Woes of Wit– Alan Shaw's translator's introduction
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov (born Jan. 4 [Jan. 15, New Style], 1795, Moscow, Russia—died Jan. 30 [Feb. 11], 1829, Tehrān, Iran) was a Russian playwright whose comedy Gore ot uma (Wit Works Woe) is one of the finest in Russian literature.
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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Griboyedoff, was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the verse comedy Woe from Wit or The Woes of Wit.
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov, 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.
GRIBOEDOV, ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH (1795 – 1829), dramatist and diplomat. Alexander Griboedov is best known as the author of Woe from Wit (Gore ot uma). The first Russian comedy of manners, the play was written in 1823, but not published until 1833 because of censorship.
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Dec 15, 2002 · GRIBOEDOV, ALEXANDER SERGEEVICH (b. Moscow, 15 January 1794; killed in Tehran, 11 February 1829; Figure 1), Russian writer, poet, and playwright, whose most famous work is the play Gore ot uma (Woe from wit).
