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Updated: May 29, 2025
The vocation of literature was filled with danger and brought about actual tragedies in some families. Thus, Pushkin's father, fearing that the fury of the authorities would extend to him, began to hate all literature, and had serious quarrels with his son. Griboyedov's mother threw herself at her son's feet and begged him not to write any more but rather to enter the service of the State.
'Well, "incurable I see you are, and that is all about it," answered Darya Mihailovna, slightly altering Griboyedov's line. 'What do you like, since you don't care for music? Literature? 'I like literature, only not our contemporary literature. 'Why? 'I'll tell you why. I crossed the Oka lately in a ferry boat with a gentleman.
At the same time, Griboyedov's famous comedy, "Intelligence Comes to Grief," which the censorship forbade to be produced or even published, was being circulated in manuscript form. This comedy, a veritable masterpiece, has for its hero a man named Chatsky, who was condemned as a madman by the aristocratic society of Moscow on account of his independent spirit and patriotic sentiments.
Next day Fustov and I had arranged to go to the theatre, to see Shtchepkin in 'Woe from Wit. Griboyedov's comedy had only just been licensed for performance after being first disfigured by the censors' mutilations. We warmly applauded Famusov and Skalozub. I don't remember what actor took the part of Tchatsky, but I well remember that he was indescribably bad.
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