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Woe from Wit is a 1823 play by Alexander Griboyedov, his only famous work.
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It is a comedy set in the Moscow upper crust of the early 1820's.
The main character is Chatsky, a Russian noble, who returns to Moscow from abroad to meet his old flame Sofia, the daughter of Pavel Famusov. The thing is, Sofia is already in love with Molchalin, an assistant to her father.
Chatsky despises Molchalin viewing him as a shallow and totally worthless character. However he has to face some unpleasant revelations about the preferences of the young girls...
On another plane Chatsky is a young raisonneur who tries to push his (somewhat mixed) agenda to the said beaumonde.
He actually does not say anything revolutionnary or antimonarchist.
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On the contrary he is mostly a patriot, rather than a nihilist and only condemds the people fawning to the grandees. Still he is found a dangerous man and ostracised.
The play was intensely copied after Griboedov made it available to the public.
It was never pub