1829. The murder of Alexander Griboedov

185 years ago, on February 11, 1829, the Russian envoy of Persia Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov was killed in Tehran, the author of the comedy “Woe from Wit”. In Persia, he enjoyed universal hatred, as he knocked out the indemnity from the Persians, which they had to pay according to the Turkmanchai peace treaty.

The angry, incurred by a fanatical clergy, the crowd burst into the building of the Russian mission. Griboedov and another 37 employees of the mission were killed (only secretary Ivan Maltsev, who managed to hide) survived). According to Persian data, 80 people from among the attackers died.

Griboedov’s body was so mutilated that he was identified only by the scar on the hand of the left hand obtained as a result of a duel with Yakubovich.

When Russia demanded the punishment of the perpetrators, the grandson of Shah Khozrev-Mirza was sent to the Russian capital, who gave the tsar one of the most famous diamonds in the world of Shah, which was still in the Diamond Fund of Russia.