Alexander Sergeevich was born on January 15, 1795 in Moscow. The young nobleman was brought up by the best teachers, and already at the age of eleven, having graduated from the boarding school, Alexander became a student of the Imperial Moscow University. In thirteen years Griboyedov received the degree of candidate of verbal sciences, in fifteen he graduated from the moral and political department of the university, after which he studied natural sciences and mathematics. Alexander Sergeyevich knew six languages.

During the War of 1812 Griboyedov served in the Moscow Hussar Regiment, after the service he returned to St. Petersburg. At this time comes his first literary experiences: the comedy "Young Spouses", an essay "On Cavalry Reserves". In St. Petersburg, Alexander Sergeevich led a secular lifestyle: he attended balls, was a member of two Masonic lodges, friends with famous writers and artists. In 1817 he began working in the College of Foreign Affairs, but did not stay there long: Griboyedov became a second in a duel of his friends and almost went to prison. He was saved by his mother, Anastasia Fyodorovna: she was able to arrange for her son to be a secretary at the Russian embassy in Persia. In 1818 Alexander Sergeevich left for service.

From the time of his return from the regiment to St. Petersburg until the time of his transfer from Persia to Georgia in 1821, Griboyedov wrote many articles, travel notes and published several works:

"The Lubochny Theater"

"Pretended Infidelity"

"The Student"

"His Family, or the Married Bride"

"Letter to a Publisher from Tiflis"

"Forgive me, Fatherland"

"Vágin's Story"

"Ananursky Quarantine"

Almost everything that Alexander Sergeevich published before "Grief from Wit" was written in co-authorship. He worked in the popular genre of "secular comedy". Griboyedov liked to parody already published works and show in a different light favorite literary techniques.

"Woe from Wit"

Work on his most famous comedy, Alexander Griboyedov began as early as 1820. Some acts with large censorship cuts were published in 1825, a slightly more complete version was printed in 1833, but the complete comedy came out more than thirty years after the author's death - in 1862. For a long time, the play was handwritten and secretly passed from house to house - later across the country counted more than forty-five thousand such copies. Alexander Pushkin, during his exile in Mikhailovsky, read a handwritten version of the comedy and said that half of the text should become proverbs. And so it happened: "Woe from Wit" is still one of the most quoted texts in Russian culture today.

The last years of life

In parallel with the work on "Woe from Wit" and after it, Alexander Griboyedov wrote other works, such as "1812", "David", "Who is a brother, who is a sister", "And compose - lie, and translate - lie", "Georgian Night".

In 1828, Alexander Sergeevich married a fifteen-year-old princess Nina Alexandrovna Chavchavadze. They lived together only a few weeks: soon after the wedding Griboyedov left for Tehran. A few months later he died at the hands of Islamist fanatics who attacked the Russian embassy. The writer's widow, Nina Chavchavadze, erected a monument on his grave with the inscription: "Your mind and deeds are immortal in Russian memory, but for what did my love outlive you!".