Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright, composer, and poet (died 1829)

Alexander Griboyedov

Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (1795-1829)

Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. His one notable work is 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 in the aftermath of…