The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

Author/Contributor(s):	Tynyanov, Yury
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	04/27/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.