Komedija A. S. Griboedova «Gore ot uma» byla napisana uzhe bolee polutora stoletij nazad, no zhivopisnaja kartina nravov, galereja zhivykh tipov i vechno ostraja ironija po-prezhnemu volnujut i uvlekajut chitatelej, uchat ikh dostoinstvu i blagorodstvu. Podlinnaja vershina russkoj dramaturgii nachala XIX veka, pesa «Gore ot uma», izvestna nam so shkolnykh let. No o drugikh proizvedenijakh Griboedov segodnja znajut malo. Mezhdu tem on vovse ne byl avtorom odnogo proizvedenija. V nastojaschem izdanii predstavleny sochinenija Griboedova raznykh let, pozvoljajuschie sostavit bolee polnoe predstavlenie o ego tvorcheskom nasledii.
Russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the verse comedy Woe from Wit or The Woes of Wit. He was Russia's ambassador to Qajar Persia, where he and all the embassy staff were massacred by an angry mob following the rampant anti-Russian sentiment that existed through the Treaty of Gulistan of 1813 and Treaty of Turkmenchay of 1828, and had forcefully ratified for Persia's ceding of its northern territories comprising Transcaucasia and parts of the North Caucasus.