Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit"

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"Woe from Wit" is a comedy in verse by Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov, ridiculing the high society of the time of serfdom. It is believed that the idea of comedy originated with the writer in 1820, but Griboyedov's good friend, Stepan Nikitich Begichev, wrote that the idea of comedy was born back in 1816, during a diplomatic mission to Persia. By the beginning of 1822, the first two acts were written, and in the spring and summer of 1823, the first version of the play, then called "Woe to the Mind", was completed in Moscow. It was here that the writer could replenish his observations on the life and customs of the Moscow nobility, "breathe in the air" of secular living rooms.