The death of Vazir Mukhtar

“His books seemed to some dry ones,” wrote Ilya Eren -Burg. “However, there was never a large and, moreover, an honest author who could write well about the events lying outside his spiritual world.” The spiritual world of Yuri Tynyanov (1894-1943) contained the era of Griboedov - Chatsky - lyceum students - Decembrists - Pushkin - conquest of Persia and the Caucasus so fully and organically that he himself already seemed to be a contemporary of his heroes - one of them. The last year of the life of the great writer and diplomat, Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov, Tynyanov went with him step by step: signing the world with Persia, tsarist mercy, "firing" position of the ambassador to hostile Tehran, martyrdom, the last meeting with Pushkin on the road to Tiflis. "What are you taking? - Griboeda. " "Death of Vazir -Mukhtar" is the most famous and bright work of an outstanding prose writer and literary critic and, without a doubt, one of the best historical novels in Russian literature of the 20th century