Woe from Wit [Горе от ума]
Author: first_name: Alexander Sergeyevich
last_name: Griboedov
first_name:  Алекса́ндр Серге́евич
last_name: Грибое́дов
Language: Russian
Year: 1861

<em>Woe from Wit</em> (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe" and so forth) is Alexander Griboedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow."<br /><br />The play, written in 1823 in the countryside and in Tiflis, was not passed by the censorship for the stage, and only portions of it were allowed to appear in an almanac for 1825. But it was read out by the author