Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.

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Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.
  • Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.
  • Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.
Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran. Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s Mission to the Shah of Persia.

£8

ID #19451

Kelly, Laurence.

8vo. xiii, 314 pp., 65 b/w & colour illus., 3 maps, publisher’s original wrappers, very good condition, notes, appendices, biblio, index, I. B. Tauris, London, 2002.

When a Tehran mob broke into the Russian embassy and murdered all the diplomats there, the dead included one of the most brilliant and promising writers of 19th-century Russia, Alexander Griboyedov. In this first biography of Griboyedov in English, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of his remarkable literary and diplomatic gifts which were nevertheless overshadowed by ill-fortune. He narrowly escaped punishment for involvement with the 1825 December plot to overthrow the Tsarist state. And his role as a diplomat in the dangerous game of Russian imperial expansion in Iran was to cost him his life.

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