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It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Alexandre Sergeyevich Griboyedov

  • In the book: a writer whose aunt supposedly owned the Griboyedov House
  • A Russian Diplomat, writer, and composer
  • Wrote a satiric play on Russian aristocrats that was not published (censored)