Woe from Wit. A Comedy in Four Acts in Verse

The comedy by Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov (1795–1829) «Woe from Wit» is an eternally alive masterpiece of Russian classics. It has become an inexhaustible source of aphorisms and proverbs, and its heroes are collective images, a mirror in which we look and see ourselves. During the writer's lifetime, the play was not published in full due to censorship, but it widely circulated in manuscript copies. Each new generation of readers finds in this outwardly simple story meanings relevant to their time.
«A million torments» in the comedy, «a million» clever details, «a million» psychologically accurate discoveries, «a million» spiritual insights are an eternally alive lesson for schoolchildren, and not only…
For middle and high school age.