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Aleksandr Sergejewitsch Gribojedow is murdered.
Griboyedov was born on January 15, 1795 in Moscow and studied from 1810 to 1812 at the Moscow State University. After completing his studies, he joined a hussar regiment, but left the service as early as 1816. A year later he switched to public administration.
On the side, so to speak, he worked extremely successfully as a writer and was with other writers, including Aleksandr Pushkin ...
...close friends. His comedy "Gor ot uma" (= "Mind creates suffering" or "Woe to the mind), a biting satire on the Russian aristocracy, is still that today - by far! - most performed piece in Russia...:
When "Gore ot uma" appeared, the play was immediately banned by the censors and circulated as a multiple copy (so-called "samizdat" literature) among the intellectual elite. The piece made Griboyedov an idol!
Amazingly, Griboyedov was still able to continue his work in the Russian civil service and even rose to the top - that suggests that he had some very important knowledge in his areas of expertise!
In 1818 he became secretary of the Russian legation in Persia, from where he was transferred to Tbilisi in Georgia.
In Georgia, Griboyedov quickly gained a foothold in the political elite, participated in urban planning concepts, the establishment of cultural institutions and educational establishments, and the founding of a Russian-Georgian newspaper.
After the fourth Russo-Persian War (1826 to 1828) he was advisor to the governor of Georgia, Count Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich in 1828 ...
... and took part in the peace negotiations with Persia.
When Griboyedov was sent to Saint Petersburg with the contract with the Persians that was ready to be signed, he was given a great reception there.
The treaty went down in history as the Peace of Turkmanchai.
To this day, the treaty is regarded in Iran as one of the most humiliating treaties the country has ever had to sign. The Parish Shah Fath Ali ...
... had to humiliate himself and his country unduly; The cause of Grobojedowes later murder lies in the contract.
In addition to territorial losses and high reparation payments, the country lost all shipping rights on the Caspian Sea.
Furthermore, Persia had to recognize the special rights of Russian citizens. Specifically, this meant that no Iranian civil servant was allowed to enter the building of a Russian citizen in Iran without first obtaining permission from the Russian embassy.
All legal claims against Russian citizens were subject to Russian case law.
Griboyedov then went back to Tbilisi and married the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze on April 22, 1828 ...:
... a daughter of the poet Alexandr Chavchavadze, who was one of Griboyedov's closest friends.
In the same year he was sent to Persia as an authorized minister to oversee the processing of the unpaid payment of the reparations agreed in the Turkmanchai peace treaty to Russia and to talk to Fath Ali Shah ...:
There were violent protests against this in the Persian population.
On the evening of January 29, Islamic clergy took over the leadership of the mob. They deliberately spread the news that two Muslim women were being held captive in the Russian embassy who were forcibly converted to Christianity.
On February 11, 1829, there was no stopping them and the embassy was stormed!
The 35 Cossacks that Griboyedov had brought with him as an escort could do nothing.
In addition to Griboyedov and his escort, 44 people from the Russian embassy staff were killed. The embassy was completely pillaged...:
The body of Gribojedow was transferred to Tbilisi at his will, where he was buried first in a monastery and in 1832 in a grotto on the site of today's Pantheon on Mtatsminda.
The grave became a place of pilgrimage for Russian writers - here is an old photo ...:
Even today, Griboyedov's grave has a similar status for intellectuals from all the successor states of the Soviet Union and young people as the graves of Jimmy Morrison and Edith Piaf in the “Pére Lachaise” cemetery in Paris do for us “Westerners”!
In order to prevent a Russian vengeance, the Persian Shah sent Tsar Nikolai I valuable gifts, including the largest diamond in the world, the so-called "Shah Diamond", an 88.7 carat, three centimeter long diamond of high clarity.
Griboyedov is anchored in the collective memory of the Russians mainly as a writer, his diplomatic work has been pushed into the background.
Streets and squares are named after him and there are some monuments, like here in Moscow ...:
The - in my opinion - most beautiful monument is the Griboyedov Canal (and the Griboyedov Bank!) In Saint Petersburg ...
Every tourist who wants to visit the cathedral "Auf dem Blut" - the building is reminiscent of Tsar Aleksandr II and stands exactly at the place where the Tsar was murdered by a bombing on March 13, 1881 - must walk along ... :
A little tip: In contrast to its magnificent exterior, the inside of the cathedral was completely cleared out during the Soviet era and all the frescoes were removed!
So don't get any money for visiting the interiors if you should be there. It's really not worth it!
Griboyedov was born on January 15, 1795 in Moscow and studied from 1810 to 1812 at the Moscow State University. After completing his studies, he joined a hussar regiment, but left the service as early as 1816. A year later he switched to public administration.
On the side, so to speak, he worked extremely successfully as a writer and was with other writers, including Aleksandr Pushkin ...
...close friends. His comedy "Gor ot uma" (= "Mind creates suffering" or "Woe to the mind), a biting satire on the Russian aristocracy, is still that today - by far! - most performed piece in Russia...:
When "Gore ot uma" appeared, the play was immediately banned by the censors and circulated as a multiple copy (so-called "samizdat" literature) among the intellectual elite. The piece made Griboyedov an idol!
Amazingly, Griboyedov was still able to continue his work in the Russian civil service and even rose to the top - that suggests that he had some very important knowledge in his areas of expertise!
In 1818 he became secretary of the Russian legation in Persia, from where he was transferred to Tbilisi in Georgia.
In Georgia, Griboyedov quickly gained a foothold in the political elite, participated in urban planning concepts, the establishment of cultural institutions and educational establishments, and the founding of a Russian-Georgian newspaper.
After the fourth Russo-Persian War (1826 to 1828) he was advisor to the governor of Georgia, Count Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich in 1828 ...
... and took part in the peace negotiations with Persia.
When Griboyedov was sent to Saint Petersburg with the contract with the Persians that was ready to be signed, he was given a great reception there.
The treaty went down in history as the Peace of Turkmanchai.
To this day, the treaty is regarded in Iran as one of the most humiliating treaties the country has ever had to sign. The Parish Shah Fath Ali ...
... had to humiliate himself and his country unduly; The cause of Grobojedowes later murder lies in the contract.
In addition to territorial losses and high reparation payments, the country lost all shipping rights on the Caspian Sea.
Furthermore, Persia had to recognize the special rights of Russian citizens. Specifically, this meant that no Iranian civil servant was allowed to enter the building of a Russian citizen in Iran without first obtaining permission from the Russian embassy.
All legal claims against Russian citizens were subject to Russian case law.
Griboyedov then went back to Tbilisi and married the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze on April 22, 1828 ...:
... a daughter of the poet Alexandr Chavchavadze, who was one of Griboyedov's closest friends.
In the same year he was sent to Persia as an authorized minister to oversee the processing of the unpaid payment of the reparations agreed in the Turkmanchai peace treaty to Russia and to talk to Fath Ali Shah ...:
There were violent protests against this in the Persian population.
On the evening of January 29, Islamic clergy took over the leadership of the mob. They deliberately spread the news that two Muslim women were being held captive in the Russian embassy who were forcibly converted to Christianity.
On February 11, 1829, there was no stopping them and the embassy was stormed!
The 35 Cossacks that Griboyedov had brought with him as an escort could do nothing.
In addition to Griboyedov and his escort, 44 people from the Russian embassy staff were killed. The embassy was completely pillaged...:
The body of Gribojedow was transferred to Tbilisi at his will, where he was buried first in a monastery and in 1832 in a grotto on the site of today's Pantheon on Mtatsminda.
The grave became a place of pilgrimage for Russian writers - here is an old photo ...:
Even today, Griboyedov's grave has a similar status for intellectuals from all the successor states of the Soviet Union and young people as the graves of Jimmy Morrison and Edith Piaf in the “Pére Lachaise” cemetery in Paris do for us “Westerners”!
In order to prevent a Russian vengeance, the Persian Shah sent Tsar Nikolai I valuable gifts, including the largest diamond in the world, the so-called "Shah Diamond", an 88.7 carat, three centimeter long diamond of high clarity.
Griboyedov is anchored in the collective memory of the Russians mainly as a writer, his diplomatic work has been pushed into the background.
Streets and squares are named after him and there are some monuments, like here in Moscow ...:
The - in my opinion - most beautiful monument is the Griboyedov Canal (and the Griboyedov Bank!) In Saint Petersburg ...
Every tourist who wants to visit the cathedral "Auf dem Blut" - the building is reminiscent of Tsar Aleksandr II and stands exactly at the place where the Tsar was murdered by a bombing on March 13, 1881 - must walk along ... :
A little tip: In contrast to its magnificent exterior, the inside of the cathedral was completely cleared out during the Soviet era and all the frescoes were removed!
So don't get any money for visiting the interiors if you should be there. It's really not worth it!
