Alexandr Griboyedov
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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (January 15, 1795 – February 11, 1829) was a Russian diplomat, playwright, and composer, best-known for Woe from Wit.
He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy Woe from Wit, still one of the most often staged plays in Russia. One expert, Angela Brintlinger, argues that "not only did Griboedov's contemporaries conceive of his life as the life of a literary hero--ultimately writing a number of narratives featuring him as an essential character--but indeed Griboedov saw himself as a hero and his life as a narrative. Although there is not a literary artifact to prove this, by examining Griboedov's letters and dispatches, one is able to build a historical narrative that fits the literary and behavioural paradigms of his time and that reads like a real adventure novel set in the wild, wild East."
