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.