Abstract
Abstract In “A Journey to Erzerum” (1836), a literary account of the Caucasian travel in 1829, A. S. Pushkin describes the encounter with the coffin of A. S. Griboyedov, murdered by Persian mob in Tehran. In a personal reminiscence he gives – opposite to F. V. Bulgarin’s panegyric and sentimental “Memories of the unforgettable A. S. Griboyedov” (1830) – a realistic and empathical sketch of the ups and downs in the poet’s life. Griboyedov got the option to accept or to refuse the patronage of the powerful; his decision to accept the tsar’s proposal was disastrous. Pushkin regards the vita brevis of his namesake as an example ex negativo, because “independence and self-esteem alone can lift us [writers] above the trifles and the storms of fate.”
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