The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was savagely murdered in Tehran in 1829 in an attack on the Russian embassy.
Introduction: Truth and Ambiguity on the Road to Tehran, by Angela Brintlinger
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The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar
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Yury Tynyanov. Translated by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush