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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar

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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar	comment	The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar ("Ð¡Ð¼ÐµÑ€Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð’Ð°Ð·Ð¸Ñ€-ÐœÑƒÑ…Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ð°", "Smert' Vazir-Mukhtara") is a historical novel by early Soviet literary historian and critic Yury Tynyanov, set in early 19th century Russia and Persia and centered on the last year in the life of Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov, a famous Russian playwright, poet, Oriental scholar, polyglot and diplomat. It opens with his return to Moscow after a successful diplomatic mission in Persia; from there, he goes to St. Petersburg to report to his superiors, and, after a short while, sets out on a new mission to Persia in the capacity of Minister (Ambassador) Plenipotentiary, or, as the Persians call him, "Vazir-Mukhtar". Along the way he visits Tiflis (Tbilisi), another important location in his past, then goes on to Tebriz, and finally, Tehran. And then he dies. The book ends with a Persian embassy to Russia, sent with the purpose of making up after the circumstances of Griboyedov's death, that goes through many of the same places and encounters many of the same people as Griboyedov did in the beginning. Note that all this traveling, while thematically very important, is of course the skeleton of the novel's plot; the meat is Griboyedov's encounters with a colorful cast of characters inhabiting all those locations, as well as trying to fulfill some of his many ambitions, be they career, political, matrimonial or literary, all while dealing with various personal issues and setbacks.Major historical issues include the Golden Age of Russian literature, the aftershock of the 1825 Decembrist uprising (which involved many of Griboyedov's old friends), the incipience of the Anglo-Russian Great Game and the godwaful state of Persia under the middle Qajars.This book is notable for a lot of things - a fairly quirky writing style (slipping into the nigh-incomprehensible on a few occasions), plenty of various lyrical, psychological and historical digressions, the realization of Tynyanov's modernist theories of literature, detailed and sometimes striking psychological insights into many - often entirely incidental - characters, as well as simply being an extraordinarily well-researched piece of Historical Fiction. Its critical reception has been variable - Solzhenitsyn in particular found a lot of things he disagreed with in its style and its specific arguments - but despite being relatively obscure and overshadowed by other early 20th century works, it is still a part of the Russian high school curriculum. It is not entirely unknown in the West, either, at least not to Tynyanov's fellow literary critics. It was translated in 1938 as Death and Diplomacy in Persia.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: What Maltsov turns out to be. He admits it readily to himself when it is revealed, at least.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: A very odd case - most character names are given as they were, but a few names are slightly or not-so-slightly changed for some reason that is not immediately apparent. It's barely noticeable, though, as those particular characters were hardly what you might call celebrities at all.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_14b85a5f	type	Fat Idiot
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_14b85a5f	comment	Fat Idiot: Faddey Bulgarin, though he's not as stupid as he might seem at first.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Subverted with Praskovya Nikolaevna Akhverdova's "wooden house in the garden" (wherein "happiness was kept") in Tiflis, which seemed like a natural set-up for this, except that even with all the financial and career difficulties and occasional disagreements and personal tragedies, Akhverdova's personal charisma somehow keeps all the many relatives, in-laws and family friends she has collected under her roof (on a permanent or temporary basis) a big happy family (despite often not even being related in any real way). The description of the wooden house and its residents (and of Griboyedov's return there on the way to Persia) is a downright Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: Surprisingly averted when two Tatars mock Griboyedov behind his back in the Tiflis bathhouse. Griboyedov doesn't understand what they're saying, but thinks that they are being very respectful. Griboyedov knows many languages, but apparently Tatar isn't one of them.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_171c50a9	type	The Philosopher
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Chaadayev. Griboyedov gently mocks him and goes on with his life. Professor Adelung also has such tendencies.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: That's how Griboyedov remembers his late uncle. Sipyagin and Samson Khan might qualify as well.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_18d420b0	type	Lovable Coward
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_18d420b0	comment	Lovable Coward: One of Bulgarin's many endearing vices.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Abbas Mirza, being an Oriental Crown Prince with great interest in Western culture.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: "The Story of Samson Yakovlich".
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Griboyedov's death is actually pretty tame - he just gets slashed a few times with sabres and that's (evidently) it. What the mob does to his body immediately after is this, though: they literally tear his body into pieces and parade him across Tehran. "Vazir-Mukhtar continued to exist", sure.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Griboyedov and his manservant - and closest friend since childhood, though it might not seem that way at first - Sasha.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Averted and practically defied by Fat'h Ali Shah, but done with gusto by Shahzade (Crown Prince) Abbas Mirza.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: A lot of people, arguably including Griboyedov himself; the ultimate example, however, is Nesselrode, whose entire ambition consists of maintaining an unsatisfactory status quo in all affairs of state to further his own career and whose entire plot function is to obstruct people with bureaucratic excuses.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Griboyedov is this or pretty close anyway; he is even compared to Byron by an Englishman at some point, though this is quickly dismissed, as he is a bit more subtle than that.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: The fact that Griboyedov is Paskevich's in-law is a very big deal for a lot of people, including his superiors, Nesselrode and Tsar Nicholas I (the latter having once served under Paskevich while Crown Prince). While Griboyedov is certainly talented and, at any rate, very knowledgeable, he would not have become the Vazir-Mukhtar if not for this connection.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: The apparent motivation of Professor Adelung, the science in question being Oriental studies.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Griboyedov and Princess Nina Chavchavadze. This is not so bad by the time of the book, as he is 34 and she is 16, but he was clearly in love with her from quite a time earlier, an some of his daydreaming about "the little Georgian girl" earlier in the book can be disconcerting, though at least he is willing to wait.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: Halfway in, Griboyedov marries his beloved Nina Chavchavadze. They really are very happy together, which only makes the Foregone Conclusion of Griboyedov's impending death so much more tragic.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Arguably, Maltsov. While not in any obvious way a big fan of adventure literature or what have you, he did take Griboyedov, as an apparent political rising star and successful diplomat, for something of a role model, and so was very enthused about accompanying him on his new appointment in Persia. Gradually he turned into The Resenter for all the classical reasons.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_268dbcfc	type	Good Is Old-Fashioned
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_268dbcfc	comment	Good Is Old-Fashioned: Sort of: see Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!. The Decembrists and "the people of [eighteen] twenties" in general are certainly both objectively old fashioned and, at least in the common historical reading, "good"; whether this is correlation or causation is a different question.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The whole story, when you consider it - Griboyedov spends all this running around, trying and failing to do all kinds of things, and then he is killed by a mob.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Lots of foreign languages are used, most of them are translated in the footnotes, but some aren't (particularly Armenian).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: Professor Senkovsky at the examination in the School of Oriental Languages. To be fair, all he does is ask (read: relentlessly bombard students with) mostly reasonable questions about Arabian and Persian poetry, but the manner in which he does it and the way he practically chews students out over every little mistake or imperfection in their translations qualifies him for this. Griboyedov is forced to intercede to the relief of the students and all the other professors.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2c136406	type	Standard Royal Court
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2c136406	comment	Standard Royal Court: The militaristic, disciplinned, obsessively orderly and yet also somehow pompous Russian court of Nicholas I and the several interconnected luxurious horribly complicated courts of the Shah and the various Crown Princes in Persia (complete with harems, eunuchs, religious authorities, foreign specialists and all kinds of different vested interests).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: The Persians don't seem to see much more to the Decembrist uprisin than just this. The ever-impeding Succession Crisis in Persia itself is something of a Red Herring - everyone talks a lot about how all hell will break loose when Fat'h Ali Shah dies, but he doesn't.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Lots of foreign languages are used (mostly French, but also English, Farsi, Arabic...), but not gratuitously in any way. There is the internal example of Sasha occasionally using Farsi words to seem smarter, though.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: Colonel Macdonald, the British Ambassador in Persia (despite being Scottish and apparently not from a very wealthy background).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Not only is the title a dead giveaway as soon as you learn what a "vazir-mukhtar" is, but also if you've ever heard about Griboyedov (and everyone in Russia has, as he is in the curriculum), then chances are you've also heard of how he died.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Averted and possibly even inverted: all the contemporary characters, including those who are traditionally idolized in Russia, are shown warts and all and their hypocrisy, together with other flaws, is highlighted, possibly too much so. Views on various matters are also left unupdated.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Griboyedov's funeral isn't actually shown in the book (the procession carrying his remains back to Russia is, and it certainly fits), but you just know it's going to be this, as even his closest friends are pretty quick to abandon him in spirit if not in word, and most people are only concerned with his death as an unpleasant diplomatic incident.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_434d893c	comment	One notable example would be Funny Foreigner Doctor McNeal, who is possibly even more of a Manipulative Bastard than Griboyedov thought, and who ultimately orchestrated his death.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: All named characters have flaws, but none are unsympathetic monsters and all have at least some redeeming or empathetic traits.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_45ca5950	type	Never Accepted in His Hometown
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_45ca5950	comment	Never Accepted in His Hometown: Inverted: Griboyedov has never accepted his hometown, Moscow, and its high society. He does think about reconciling with it after Woe from Wit (which was basically an expression of his frustrations with this city; a big, long "The Reason You Suck" Speech aimed at the whole of local aristocracy), but decides that he isn't ready yet. And he never will be.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bulgarin would be this if he wasn't always so friendly despite also being a scumbag. Griboyedov is either this trope player straight or an inversion - while contemptuous, he likes to help people, but largely because it feels good to know that you have the power to make or unmake them; in other words, it usually is just a way of reinforcing his own sense of superiority.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: Griboyedov is slightly like this towards Pushkin, since the latter seems to have a much easier time with his poetry. Maltsov eventually becomes this to Griboyedov having started out as a fanboy, then getting harrased as well as being shocked by Griboyedov's reckless style of diplomacy.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4960ec4f	type	Minored in Ass-Kicking
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4960ec4f	comment	Minored In Ass Kicking: Griboyedov, as it turns out. Also, Adelung.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: Russia and Persia are repeatedly shown to be very, very similar in many regards - Griboyedov is particularly prone to noticing this soon after going from one to another. The Persians also tend to insist on this, even when it is apparently inaccurate (see Succession Crisis). Arguably, likewise with the British and the Russians in the incipient Great Game; as the British ambassador to Persia and his staff often point out, they're all Europeans among savages.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Bulgarin gravitates towards this.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Griboyedov, at the end of the St. Petersburg portion of the book, decides to jump at the call of becoming the Minister Plenipotentiary in Persia, even though the position was offered to him partly as a snub, just to spite his superiors and to get away from St. Petersburg society.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Several, as Griboyedov reminisces about some of his old friends and the places he has been in (his first time in Tiflis; his meeting with some of the Decembrist leaders including Burtsev in Odessa; a disastrous duel he has maliciously arranged between some of his acquaintances). There is a historical flashback to the destruction of Tiflis by Aga Khan.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_550a5d51	type	You Are the Translated Foreign Word
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_550a5d51	comment	You Are the Translated Foreign Word: Vazir-Mukhtar, Minister Plenipotentiary.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: Despite being knowledgeable, cynical and competent, Griboyedov still matches this trope by being highly reliant on his servant with regards to everyday matters.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: The entire British Mission is like this, hardly even antagonistic until the denouement.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5e032315	type	One-Book Author
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5e032315	comment	One-Book Author: Griboyedov himself, with his famous play "Woe from Wit". Surpassing this status is one of his plans, but it doesn't work out.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Griboyedov is very prone to this; he generally seems to be much more calm and even cheerful when things are going straight to hell.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Faddey Bulgarin.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Fat'h Ali Shah's favourite wife is also his daughter. Their two children are both his sons and his grandsons and horribly inbred as you can imagine, which is a plot point as it gives the British an additional advantage in Persian harem politics thanks to their diplomatic use of medicine.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_60985aa7	type	In with the In Crowd
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_60985aa7	comment	In with the In Crowd: Griboyedov in with the Russian political, social and military elite, even more so than he was before the success of his diplomatic career. But Lonely at the Top because he can't stand most of them, while driving away many of his old friends simply by being successful.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Both Hodja Mirza Yakub and ensign Skryplev attempt to defect (sort of; the book goes into detail on the nuances of both cases, the former was from a territory now recognized as Russian and so had the right to leave for Russia per the Treaty of Turkmenchay, the latter was just a nearly accidental defector who decided to defect right back) to Russia. Hodja managed to get into the embassy and died when it was attacked by an angry mob, the latter implicitly didn't even make it that far.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Professor Senkovsky, with his insistence on bringing his huge dog to an examination and other Mad Scientist/Mad Artist antics.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_663b22d9	comment	Hodja Mirza Yakub Markaryan pulling an ethnic version of Dying as Yourself by encouraging to mob to tear him into pieces in Armenian, after realizing that his plan to return to the land of his birth fell through for good. His This Is Gonna Suck reaction to the whole angry mob thing counts too.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: The angry mob attack on the embassy is this for at least three characters, besides the garrison: Hodja Mirza Yakub Markaryan pulling an ethnic version of Dying as Yourself by encouraging to mob to tear him into pieces in Armenian, after realizing that his plan to return to the land of his birth fell through for good. His This Is Gonna Suck reaction to the whole angry mob thing counts too. Professor Adelung, an elderly German doctor, wildly lashing out at the mob with his sword to hold it at the door. He loses a hand, quickly and calmly patches up his arm and then jumps out of the window to attack the mob again. Griboyedov is impressed to say the least: "Jolly good. Jolly good! What a man!" And, ofcourse, Griboyedov himself. First there is the fact that he basically knowingly put himself in harm's way in order to ensure the enforcement of a treaty that has his name on it. Then there is the way he reacts to the huge mob at the embassy's door crying for his head. And then there is him assuming direct command over the garrison, competently directing its fighting retreat inside the embassy despite having no real military experience to speak of. Oh, and when it turns out that the rioters killed his manservant, who was probably his closest friend since childhood, his Dissonant Serenity briefly switches to Tranquil Fury, he grabs a rifle from a Cossack's dead fingers and calmly and precisely guns down several of the rioters, briefly forcing the rest to fall back or at least hide from him, which incidentally helps win time for the aforementioned fighting retreat.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Doctor McNeal really doesn't seem like it at first, but his arrival in St. Petersburg ends up greatly changing the overall tone and course of the story, as he: a) reminds Griboyedov about Persia, b) delivers an angry letter from another candidate for this trope, Samson Khan and c) semi-inadvertantly drives an officer Griboyedov was trying to help out to suicide, increasing Griboyedov's despair and contributing to his decision to leave for Persia.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: Burtsev. "Moderation was his religion."
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_7302acc9	type	Ermine Cape Effect
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_7302acc9	comment	Ermine Cape Effect: An Oriental version of this for Persian royalty, full stop.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_73641290	type	The Strategist
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_73641290	comment	The Strategist: Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, the previous commander of Russian forces in the Caucasus, has been reduced to this; all he does now is sit around brooding in his Moscow house, provide angry political commentary to his fans among the local officers and come up with intricate military plans for both sides in the Russo-Persian War (and presumably other wars as well). In a subversion, hardly anyone outside of his fan club really seems to care about him much, and certainly no one plans to put in charge of anything any time soon.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Griboyedov interferes to stop some of this in St. Petersburg.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_76dc4f31	type	"Arabian Nights" Days
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_76dc4f31	comment	"Arabian Nights" Days: Persia is thought of by some to be more like this, but it's actually shown realistically, or, if we speak in tropes, as 1/8th this (mostly for the cream of the aristocracy, and even then not entirely) and 7/8ths The Dung Ages, not just because of serious health and hygiene problems, but also because the overwhelming majority of the population is poor, miserable and very unhappy about it.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Griboyedov's background is close to this, though he himself is rather more successful.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: As the opening narration explains, idealistic concepts of love among Romantic poets did not get in the way of this at all. Griboyedov's marriage with Nina counts, but then again, they were already in love for years now and her parents knew as much, though some of the Gossipy Hens might deny this. Skryplov and Zaynab was a variation on this, as the marriage was "arranged" between Skryplov himself and Zaynab's father.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Professor Senkovsky and Samson Khan (the latter even more so in his letter than in everyday life - and he is a Large Ham in everyday life).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Averted. Maltsov thought the Persians were going to do this to him for a while, but later calmed down.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8403a401	type	Artist Disillusionment
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8403a401	comment	Artist Disillusionment: Invoked. Griboyedov has such tendencies, at any rate. He isn't very happy being a role model for people like Maltsov, either.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Technically, a 19th century version of this is what Griboyedov has, but they still somehow manage to seem both cool and, in Persia, intimidating (despite never once being mentioned as shiny). Towards the end he is often referred to as "the kafir with glasses".
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Griboyedov himself is this to... a whole lot of people, mainly participants of the Decembrist uprising. This is understandable: given his Lyceum background and the fact that his literary masterpiece is a satire denouncing reactionary aristocratic elements in Moscow, he certainly seemed to have let down a lot of people when, after the failure of the Decembrist uprising, he a) disavowed all ties with it, b) proceeded to have a highly successful political and diplomatic career and c) became very close to the political elite of Nicholasian Russia, which is pretty damn similar to all that he has condemned in Woe from Wit. So naturally it looked like a Faceâ€“Heel Turn to all those people, who, in keeping with this trope, began to compare Griboyedov with Molchalin, a highly negative character in his play (Griboyedov himself is not adverse to such a comparison in moments of self-deprecation). Nevertheless, during one such conversation a wise minor character reasonably points out to others who have just finished explaining just how broken Griboyedov's pedestal is that this is rather hypocritical of them - after all, they are basically judging Griboyedov for his fancy uniform while refusing to judge Chatsky (the protagonist of Woe from Wit) for his ballroom dress. Who knows what he's really thinking about all this?
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8864056	type	Plague of Good Fortune
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_8864056	comment	Plague of Good Fortune: Not as such, but see Victorious Loser below; up until then, Griboyedov was feeling downright miserable with all the successes he's been having.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9186eded	type	Helicopter Parents
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9186eded	comment	Helicopter Parents: Griboyedov's mother, who goes out of her way to ensure a successful diplomatic career for her son whether he likes it or not.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Hodja Mirza Yakub.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9676f715	type	Feigning Intelligence
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9676f715	comment	Feigning Intelligence: General Ivan Paskevich is accused of this, though it's only partly true and he's not all that stupid to begin with.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Granted, he hardly ever pretended to be; his overall persona just seemed like it was above a lot of things. But anyway, Griboyedov is perfectly willing to engage in some admittedly childish pranks on several occasions, despite bemoaning the folly of humanity.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_97c4763	type	The Professor
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_97c4763	comment	The Professor: Professor Adelung, obviously.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Griboyedov can act like that sometimes, though entirely on purpose and with a calculated risk in mind; this nevertheless exposes him to one-sided criticism that focuses on those sides of his activity. He has been known to be the opposite of that as well on other occasions, thanks to his intricate knowledge and understanding of Persia and Persian culture.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9b1e50bd	type	During the War
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9b1e50bd	comment	During the War: The Russo-Turkish War 1828-9, though the previous Russo-Persian War 1826-8 is actually more important to the plot.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: The basic premise of the first half of the book is that Griboyedov is revisiting Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tiflis, and finding out how all of them - and all of the people who lived there - had changed since he was last there.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: While the main body of the text follows Griboyedov, many other characters get some portions dedicated to their own POV, sometimes in an unique frame (Professor Adelung has a diary, for instance; General Sipyagin gets a drunken monologue that alternates between sad and funny). Pretty much all of them are noteworthy in some way.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Chaadayev and some of the other "people of the [eighteen] twenties" tend to have this viewpoint; Griboyedov tends to notice that this might be because their careers are ruined already.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: What Paskevich is portrayed as.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a22c6d89	type	The Evil Prince
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a22c6d89	comment	The Evil Prince: Abbas-Mirza, "the Persian Napoleon" and heir to the throne, arguably qualifies, though note how he is in no hurry to seize de jure power as he already seems to be de facto in charge.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Rodofinikin and Nicholas I both try to seem like this to Griboyedov; he doesn't buy it.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Griboyedov's number one mission in Persia is to extract the kururs, i.e. the war reparations so as to finance the war effort against Turkey. Subverted in that it is only marginally significant to the actual plot, and the only one who really cares about them is Paskevich; Griboyedov's other superiors eventually decide that it would be better to forgive some part of the kururs, though by this point Griboyedov is disinclined to listen anyway.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Many characters seem somewhat silly or downright dumb at first glance, while actually rather clever. Griboyedov usually can see through them, though. One notable example would be Funny Foreigner Doctor McNeal, who is possibly even more of a Manipulative Bastard than Griboyedov thought, and who ultimately orchestrated his death. Another notable example would be Griboyedov's manservant Sasha, who generally seems like The Fool, but who also has some more somber and/or intelligent moments. He certainly is competent at what he does, but also seems to understand more about high society and art than Griboyedov tends to give him credit for (although he has his doubts towards the end). It's not enough to keep from getting into very stupid trouble towards the end, though.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Griboyedov generally can keep up a stoic facade, but still has a few outbursts here and there, in particular to his friends such as Bulgarin:
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: A cynical, contemptuous stoic, Griboyedov finds it way easier to be friends with the endearingly flawed, somewhat hyper and silly gutter journalist/trash writer Bulgarin than with his fellow ostensibly brilliant and lofty Romantic poets, and not just because of their hypocrisy. Griboyedov generally seems to find obviously flawed people so much easier to like and to get along with.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b4cbb37f	type	Good Morning, Crono
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b4cbb37f	comment	Good Morning, Crono: The book begins with Griboyedov waking up at the house of his birth in Moscow, having just returned there two days earlier.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Three captive Persian khans are temporarily held in a fortress inside Tiflis, but have access to most every luxury they had at home other than their wives.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: One for each chapter but the last, taken from songs or poems in different languages (Russian, French, Farsi, Arabic...).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Many, many examples - what would you expect from a book with so many 19th century high society characters? Faddey Bulgarin probably takes the cake though; he's practically an early 19th century Russian Paparazzo, and he evidently can't help but comically spout out semi-fabricated rumors about various literary world greats to his friends.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Nesselrode.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bbd25056	type	Eunuchs Are Evil
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bbd25056	comment	Eunuchs Are Evil: Discussed in a historical digression and utterly deconstructed. Of the three high-ranking eunuchs that actually appear in the book, none are major villains, all of them are at least in some part victims (well, duh) and at least two of them are strongly sympathetic ("But completely incomprehensible is the love of an eunuch." Also, the bits about their "hobbies".). One of them ends up doing a Heelâ€“Face Turn in hopes of seeing his native Armenia one last time. Yeah, that doesn't work out. But the fact that he proceeds to die bravely is arguably an even bigger subversion of this trope. Agha Mohammed Khan Qajar, on the other hand, is very much a monster (though the eunuch factor is still the one thing that makes seem at least somewhat pitiful rather than purely reprehensible), but certainly no Sissy Villain, being a qualified city-razing family-slaughtering Evil Overlord.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Faddey Bulgarin.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Maltsov, until he breaks down.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Rozyov-Ptitsa (Rozyov the Bird) in "The Story of Samson Yakovlich". Prone to hogging all the good horses for himself in a dragoon unit. Eventually drives Samson into deserting the army and later defecting to Persia.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Faddey Bulgarin and Lena.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: Happens when an elderly German asks for Griboyedov's help in retrieving his daughter from a Persian harem (apparently she was abducted and sold into slavery a while back). She utterly refuses to recognise him, at least at first, and is adamantly against returning to her previous poor life and chores after experiencing the luxuries of a harem. Griboyedov ends up persuading the German to forget him. It is implied that similar scenes happen very, very often, though ultimately it is subverted with Dil-Firuz, who decides to go back to her Shamkori father (who is probably much poorer than the German above, while she is the favourite concubine of one of Persia's highest-ranking courtiers as opposed to a mere sayeed).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: Actually, Griboyedov was always pretty jaded, but he himself seems to think that he got even worse after some of the things that happened during his previous, otherwise successful diplomatic mission.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c489934e	type	Apron Matron
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c489934e	comment	Apron Matron: Griboyedov's mother.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Griboyedov was an incredible polyglot even by the high standards of early 19th century Russian aristocracy, knowing 16 languages in all, including many Oriental languages, which predictably is rather handy when working as a diplomat in Persia.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c7eaae49	type	Renegade Russian
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c7eaae49	comment	Renegade Russian: Samson Khan and his followers have been doing this some 150 years before it was cool.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: Lots of characters, even those who are doing outwardly well, tend to look back towards "the Twenties" (i.e. the years before the 1825 uprising) as this - it is an all-permeating theme. Some obvious examples include General Yermolov and many of the Decembrists. While Griboyedov's own political and social career has been doing well, his artistic career and personal life have arguably been better and happier earlier (the latter probably only applies before his marriage, though), causing lots of nostalgic reminiscing.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Burtsev and several other Decembrist officers are shown to be this to Paskevich, each of them within his own sphere.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d1d4b450	type	Hero Harasses Helpers
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d1d4b450	comment	Hero Harasses Helpers: Griboyedov is prone to harassing the overly enthusiastic and annoying martinet Maltsov; his other helpers, not so much, but he doesn't seem to think too highly of them either, and occasionally abuses his manservant, even though ultimately he considers him his closest friend.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d3540d32	type	Life Imitates Art
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d3540d32	comment	Life Imitates Art: Invoked. To an extent; Griboyedov's famous play begins with the main character returning to Moscow, only to realise that he is a Stranger in a Familiar Land. The beginning of the novel is similar enough in the broad outline, but very different in all the details. Many other themes from Woe From Wit turn out to be quite significant in the novel and are openly discussed.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Griboyedov gets that a lot, with varying subtlety and directness, usually because he is seen as going to great ends to help out and ingratiate himself with the Russian government and various military and political leaders. The one that really gets him, however, is the one his confrontation with Burtsev, who reads through his plan for a Russian East India-style company in the Caucasus, congratulates him for his vision and then flat out tells him that he would oppose this plan with all his power because it would inevitably result in Russian peasants being used as slave labour ("like negroes, like convicts") all for the sake of Greed. Griboyedov fires back with a devastating Hannibal Lecture, but nevertheless "the Project" that he has been almost consistently obsessing over until now suddenly doesn't look as good or as interesting to him anymore.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Griboyedov eventually begins to think this way about his respective Persian and British partners in negotiations, Abbas Mirza and Colonel Macdonald. He certainly thinks more highly of them than of his superiors, and considers them perfectly normal, intelligent and decent people caught up in much the same problems as himself.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d67f0a23	type	Modest Royalty
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d67f0a23	comment	Modest Royalty: Nicholas I prefers military uniforms, as per history and in apparent contrast to Persian royalty.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Subverted cruelly; in the last part of the Moscow chapter, Griboyedov visits Begichev, who is probably the most loyal and understanding of all his friends. They have a nice, meaningful conversation that seems like it might be heading towards this, but by the end of it Griboyedov sort of becomes, or turns out to be, more cold and distant than before. Begichev begins to feel somehow uneasy, while Griboyedov drifts off and muses serenely on how he has pushed "all the good people" away and is incapable of reconciling with Moscow just yet.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d7117f01	type	Angst? What Angst?
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d7117f01	comment	Angst? What Angst?: Griboyedov apparently deliberately went into this mode having stopped for some rest and a brief love affair in the middle of nowhere (or, more specifically, somewhere between St. Petersburg and Tiflis). It's lampshaded and justified in the book itself:
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Griboyedov himself has shades of this, especially with regards to politics and diplomacy.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Maltsov in the end, though he only actually quits after everyone else in the mission is dead, so it might not count.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: Griboyedov, at least as far as rescuing the Russian theater is concerned. Everybody notes that he has a lot of promise in all the areas he applies himself to, but ultimately he can't seem to be able to accomplish much. Pushkin said it best in the end and in real life: "Perhaps a Descartes who never wrote anything? Or a Napoleon without any soldiers?"
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Nesselrode is a textbook example. Possibly Emperor Nicholas I as well.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Most every character in the book has some sort of plan, sometimes several, and a lot of those plans all collide during Griboyedov's visit to Persia. Griboyedov pretty much puts the nail in his coffin while trying to deal with the resultant diplomatic chaos - and causing a convergence of several major players against him in the process.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_df41acb	comment	And, ofcourse, Griboyedov himself. First there is the fact that he basically knowingly put himself in harm's way in order to ensure the enforcement of a treaty that has his name on it. Then there is the way he reacts to the huge mob at the embassy's door crying for his head. And then there is him assuming direct command over the garrison, competently directing its fighting retreat inside the embassy despite having no real military experience to speak of. Oh, and when it turns out that the rioters killed his manservant, who was probably his closest friend since childhood, his Dissonant Serenity briefly switches to Tranquil Fury, he grabs a rifle from a Cossack's dead fingers and calmly and precisely guns down several of the rioters, briefly forcing the rest to fall back or at least hide from him, which incidentally helps win time for the aforementioned fighting retreat.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: As per history, after pretty much letting an angry mob kill Griboyedov, the Persian government patches things up with the Tsar by sending an embassy with gifts, including a huge and really impressive diamond. It works.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e0e8cce6	type	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e0e8cce6	comment	Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: What Griboyedov ends up saying to the "liberalist" Burtsev, verging on a Hannibal Lecture about how the Decembrists would've created a dictatorship and found a way to maintain serfdom in deed if not in name had they succeeded. Generally the position of "the sons" or "the new people" towards "the fathers" or "the old people" (i.e. mostly the people who were associated with or sympathetic towards the secret societies behind the Decembrist uprising; needless to say, the divide is not strictly speaking generational, and a major theme throughout the book is that Griboyedov actually belongs to both groups at once) as described in the very beginning of the book.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Possibly Doctor McNeal. Maltsov gets more of a Historical Jerkass Upgrade; it has been noted by many critics that Tynyanov clearly exaggerated his rottenness, likely because of his historically rather inglorious survival of the attack on the embassy.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Averted with Burtsev, a "liberalist"; it is explained that contrary to common stereotypes and later caricatures, liberals can be pretty brave and decisive too (and Burtsev's arguments against Griboyedov's plans are certainly quite reasonable and understandable).
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e2c5711f	type	Fan Convention
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e2c5711f	comment	Fan Convention: An early 19th century Russian literary version - Faddey Bulgarin's dinner.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e39638a1	type	Turncoat
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e39638a1	comment	Turn Coat: The trope is discussed in some detail in a literary digression. Samson Khan and his followers are this; so is ensign Skryplov when he tries to defect from them back to Russia.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Nina is definitely this for Griboyedov. Subverted with ensign Vishnyakov earlier in the book: Griboyedov tries to help him, but in the end Vishnyakov is still demoted to a private for all his worries, gets drunk, blames Griboyedov for everything and commits suicide. It has a sobering effect.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e3d2f2	type	The Fool
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e3d2f2	comment	Another notable example would be Griboyedov's manservant Sasha, who generally seems like The Fool, but who also has some more somber and/or intelligent moments. He certainly is competent at what he does, but also seems to understand more about high society and art than Griboyedov tends to give him credit for (although he has his doubts towards the end). It's not enough to keep from getting into very stupid trouble towards the end, though.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: But ofcourse; and for a bonus, it's incited by the Shi'a religious authorities, due to the terms of Griboyedov's Treaty of Turkmenchay clashing with a specific point in the Sharia. Note that as the angry mob that attacks the embassy consists largely of urban craftsmen, they come armed with their tools of labour - hammers for blacksmiths and so on. Since some Persian soldiers join the mob as well, it also has some swords and rifles on its side.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e7b1cb24	type	Old Master
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_e7b1cb24	comment	Old Master: Ivan Krylov is basically this to the literary world.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Subverted with both first names and patronymics. Griboyedov is called Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Pushkin is also Aleksandry Sergeyevich, and Griboyedov's manservant Sasha's full name is Aleksandr Sergeyevich.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Averted: Griboyedov as an ambassador does a lot of boring ambassador-ish things, attending official functions and overseeing the implementation of various clauses of his treaty with due observance of all technicalities.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_efe04722	type	Dances and Balls
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_efe04722	comment	Dances and Balls: Again, much as one would expect from a novel dealing with 19th century high society, both in St. Petersburg and in Tiflis.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f167f5e8	type	Tough Act to Follow
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f167f5e8	comment	Tough Act to Follow: In-Universe, Woe from Wit is shown as this for Griboyedov; he literally can't follow it with anything, although he tries.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Well it certainly isn't much good when you get the plague, anyway. Or when you got sent to the frontlines as a form of punishment for political crimes and are treated by your superiors accordingly.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: When you think of it, Doctor McNeal actually fits this pretty well (at least the stereotypically British part; as far as evil goes he is a Punch-Clock Villain at most), only with 19th century Russian rather than 20th century American British stereotypes. Which is to say he is ridiculously melancholic, somewhat wimpy, polite and prone to quoting Shakespeare.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: A fairly weak one on Alajar Khan's part towards the end - he wants to assassinate Hodja Mirza Yakub, thus violating the peace treaty outright, getting the Qajars into another war with Russia and so hopefully driving the country to a breaking point and paving the way for his coup d'etat. He is easily overruled by other Persian courtiers who can do the math just as well as he.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f373d5e	type	Powder Keg Crowd
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f373d5e	comment	Powder Keg Crowd: Persia has been teeming with those for months now, owing to bad and degrading living conditions and in particular the most recent disastrous war with Russia. So it's no surprise when one of those crowds in Tehran goes and explodes in Griboyedov's face.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f4a8142d	type	Victorious Loser
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f4a8142d	comment	Victorious Loser: Strange variation - after his plans to persuade his superiors to support his project for a "Caucasian Agrarian, Manufactory and Trade Company" finally hit a major snag, Griboyedov feels incredibly relieved and liberated, muses on how "those who have not experienced failure do not know what it means to breathe freely and deeply" and takes a nice walk around St. Petersburg, looking at people, having a nice private dinner instead of a boring one with some generals that he would've gone to otherwise and visiting his friends.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Russian embassy in the penultimate chapter.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Subverted cruelly in that not only is Griboyedov certainly dead, but also they literally didn't find most of his body - the mob did a real number on it and they had to go with some substitutes plus what little they could ascertain as Vazir-Mukhtar bits.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: Nina's eventual fate after Griboyedov's death.
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The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_f8c8175a	comment	Maltsov's Malicious Slander against Griboyedov is nevertheless notable for putting a capital M into Malicious, as you realize that he is blaming Griboyedov, who is dead, for everything that went wrong, whether it was in any way his fault or not, all to save himself.
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