Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov, the famous Russian diplomat and writer, was a many-sided personality. He got profound knowledge in various spheres, learned several foreign languages, became a talented writer and able musician and an outstanding diplomat with instincts of a real politician. He was born on the 4th of January, but the year of his birth is not exactly known. Some historians say he was born in 1790, others believe that happened in 1795. Little is also known about his years of education. Information about the diplomat is very uncertain. Some biographers think that Griboyedov graduated from three departments of Moscow University but there are no official papers to prove that point of view. After the war of 1812 Griboyedov lived in Belorussia where he got interested in theatre and began writing literary pieces. In 1815 he translated the comedy "A Young Couple" from French into Russian. The play was staged and had a certain success. In 1823-1824 he wrote his immortal comedy "Woe from Wit" (Gorye ot Uma). In 1825 Griboyedov had his second trip to the Caucasus. At that time he felt like writing a tragedy based on the facts of Georgian history and even began doing it living in Tiflis (now Tbilisi). In 1828 he got married. His wife - Georgian Princess Nina Chavchavadze - was the daughter of Griboyedov's old friend, the poet Alexander Chavchavadze. Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov, the famous Russian diplomat, had a brilliant ca-reer. He graduated from university and there is an opinion that he didn't get his PhD? because of the war with Napoleon in 1812. Like the majority of young Russian aristocrats, Griboyedov joined the army to defend his motherland from the enemy. After the war in 1816 Griboyedov moved to the capital of Russia, St. Petersburg. There he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was making an outstanding career in the Ministry when once he fought in a duel and was ordered to leave St. Petersburg. Griboyedov was offered a job as a diplomat in Persia (now Iran) or the USA. He chose Persia and spent there three years. After that he worked under General Yermolov in Georgia. In January 1826 Griboyedov was arrested on suspicion of his belonging to Decembrists but after a few months he was set free and went again to the Caucasus. In 1828 Griboyedov was sent to St. Petersburg with the text of the Russian-Persian peace treaty. That year he got married and went to the capital of Persia - Tehran. He was a truly successful diplomat and stood for peace between the two countries. His contemporaries wrote that he was more important than the whole army. But on 30 January 1829 nationalistic groups of radical Muslims |'mozlimz] attacked the Russian Embassy in Tehran. The building was ruined and all the people were killed. Griboyedov was buried in his favourite Tiflis in St. David's Monastery. Сжать текст до 10 предложений