“The death of Wazir-Mukhtar. Love and Life of Griboedov ” - the Russian television series of 2009, based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Tynyanov about the last year of the life of Alexander Griboedov - a Russian writer, diplomat, composer and polyglot.
| The death of Wazir Mukhtar. Love and life of Griboedov | |
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| Genre | biography film historical film drama |
| Screenwriter | Eduard Volodarsky |
| Producer | Sergey Vinokurov |
| Cast | Mikhail Eliseev Anatoly Gushchin Ivan Stebunov |
| Composer | Vitaly Istomin |
| A country |  Russia |
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| Number of episodes | 10 |
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| Producer | Daria Dostal Vladimir Dostal |
| Operator | Mikhail Levitin |
| Broadcast | |
| Tv channel | Russia 1 ( Russia ) |
| On the screens | March 15, 2010 |
Story
The young Russian aristocrat Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov, who participated in the establishment of the Turkmanchay peace, arrives in the capital St. Petersburg , where he enjoys success in society, leads a dissolute life, and in the meantime develops a plan for Russian colonization and economic development of Transcaucasia . Tsar Nikolai is more interested in Griboedov as a diplomat, able to demand from the Persians payment of the indemnity delayed by them. Griboedov is also interested in receiving money - he hopes that they will go to the development of Georgia .
Shortly before his fateful departure to Persia, Griboedov married the Georgian princess Nina Chavchavadze . Soon the spouses will find out: they will have a child. But the debt was higher than love, and Griboedov was forced to go to Tehran to negotiate directly with Shah Feth Ali .
On arrival in Tehran, Griboedov behaved defiantly insolently; his behavior at the highest audience shocked the Persians. To this was added the intrigues of political and personal enemies: the Shah warlords of Alayar Khan and the Russian deserter Samson Khan , as well as British diplomats. On the morning of January 30 (old style) in 1829, a crowd gathered at the main mosque of Tehran and with warlike cries went to the building of the Russian diplomatic mission.
During the assault on the embassy, held with the connivance of the authorities , all its employees were killed, except for the first secretary Maltzov hiding under the carpets. Mirza Yakub , the disgraced chief eunuch of the shah’s harem, was also hacked, who was under the protection of the mission. The Shah sends ambassadors to St. Petersburg with an apology and presents to the Russian Emperor Nicholas I, among other gifts, the famous Shah diamond from the crown of the Great Mughals. Interested in the neutrality of the Persians at the height of the war of Russia against the Ottoman Empire , the tsar forgives them the murder of diplomats, as well as part of the indemnity claimed by the ambassador at the cost of his life.
Cast
- Mikhail Eliseev - Alexander Griboedov
- Anatoly Gushchin - Sashka, Griboedov's servant
- Ivan Stebunov - Maltzov , Secretary of the Russian Mission
- Evgeny Karpov - Adelung
- Andrey Zibrov - Nicholas I
- Valery Solovyov - Paskevich
- Victor Kostetsky - MacDonald
- Sergey Alimpiev - Pushkin
- Maria Abramishvili - Nina Chavchavadze
- Karina Razumovskaya - Elena Bulgarina
- Sergey Barkovsky - Bulgarin
- Olga Medynich - Telesheva
- Gali Abaidulov - Chancellor Nesselrode
- Helium Sysoev - Krylov
- Igor Shibanov - Rodofinikin
- Dmitry Sutyrin - Burtsev
- Victor Smirnov - Ermolov
- Andrey Shimko - Chaadaev
- Olga Volkova - Praskovya Nikolaevna
- Larisa Malevannaya - Nastasya Fedorovna
- Mikhail Tiachorukov - Lieutenant Vishnyakov
- Vladimir Baranov - Nikolai Nikolaevich
- Andrey Matyukov - Senkovsky
- Roman Gribkov - Fomin
- Evgeny Titov - Karatygin
- Sergey Losev - Sipyagin
- Dmitry Podnozov - Samson Khan
- Taisya Popenko - Princess Salome
- Azamat Bagirov - Fazil Khan
- Sergey Shelgunov - Dr. McNeill
- Tatyana Kulish - Lady MacDonald
- Yuri Zagrebnev - Alayar Khan
- Nikolay Ishtaev - Manucheher Khan
- Mikhail Karpenko - Skrypylev
- Eric Kenya - Abas Mirza
- Stanley Krasowicki - Khozrev-Mirza
- Nikolay Dick - Savigny
- Natalya Varfolomeeva - Dasha
- Roman Ageev
- Mikhail Dorofeev
Links
- The death of Wazir-Mukhtar on Ruskino.ru
- “Neither sorrow nor mind” - The series about Griboedov, opinion of columnist Ekaterina Salnikova