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Alexander Griboyedov

Died in 1829

Alexander Griboyedov, born in Moscow around 1795, studied at the university of his city, enlisted in the hussars in 1812, then entered the foreign service in 1817. Secretary of the Russian legation in Persia, then posted in Georgia, he was also a pianist and composer. Arrested in the Caucasus in January 1826 on suspicion of having belonged to the December conspirators, he was cleared of all suspicion. In 1828 he prepared the Treaty of Turkmenchay with Persia, was sent to Tehran as minister plenipotentiary and was killed there in 1829, when a crowd stormed the legation.

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