Griboedov's Moscow

A renowned historian of Russian literature, Mikhail Osipovich Gershenson, based on letters and diaries of Moscow residents, provides an unsurpassed description of 19th-century Moscow everyday life—detailed and vivid.

Gershenzon’s “Griboedov’s Moscow” is the Moscow of Griboedov and Pushkin, of Vyazemsky and Tolstoy; it is the spirit and atmosphere, customs and interests of “Moscow society,” the everyday life of Moscow drawing rooms.

“The proposed book is an attempt at a historical illustration to ‘Woe from Wit,’ an effort to present as vividly as possible a corner of that true, real reality which Griboedov, creatively transforming it, depicted in his brilliant comedy.”