Woe from the mind. Griboedov A.S.

Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov (1795–1829) - Russian playwright, diplomat, linguist and historian, especially famous for his work “Woe from Wit”, who has become a source of many winged phrases that are still used. Among his friends, he was famous for poems and parodies. He was appreciated as A.S. Pushkin and P.A. Vyazemsky, and P.Ya. Chaadaev and F.V. Bulgarin, and his literary allies were P.A. Katenin and V.K. Kuchelbeker.

Comedy “Woe from Wit” - a satire on the aristocratic Moscow society of the 19th century, exposing all of it, the stanology of its life positions. It combines different literary directions: classicism and only nascent romanticism, designed to show the versatility of the secular circle of serfdom. Two positions are faced on the pages: the Famus society, capable of evaluating only ranks and seniority, and the young nobleman Alexander Chatsky, opposing the inertia and injustice of past generations.