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Description: VISUAL : " Death of Vazir Muhtar" by U.Tynyanov AUDIO : Musical composition "Mortal Maqamat" from album "Der Rote Baron" by Artsava ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pushkin admired mind of this person. He has become in history of the world literature, having written only one ingenious comedy, and to history of world music, having composed one outstanding waltz. Besides he had a gift of prophetical visions. Long before death he mystically expected the tragical ending of his life. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The incident began when an Armenian eunuch escaped from the harem of Persian shah Fath Ali Shah, and two Armenian girls escaped from that of his son-in-law. All three sought refuge at the Russian embassy. As agreed to in the Treaty of Turkmenchay, Armenians living in Persia were permitted to return to Eastern Armenia. However, the Shah demanded that Griboyedov return the three. Griboyedov refused. This caused an uproar throughout the city and several thousand Persians encircled the Russian compound demanding their release. Griboyedov and other members of his mission, seeing that things are bad, prepared for a siege and sealed all the windows and doors, armed and in full uniform, resolved to defend to the last drop of blood. The Cossack detachment assigned to protect the embassy was too small in number but held off the mob for over an hour until finally being driven back to Griboyedov's office. There, he and the rest of the Cossacks ...
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