Alexander Griboyedov. Mind and heart are out of tune. Part 9. Nina. Unfulfilled task
One can only guess why he, having a "Garden of Eden of Persian Hurias", married Nina Chavchavadze, a poor girl and completely uneducated in comparison with Alexander Sergeevich. Her virtues were princely origin, beauty and youth, but there were many like Nina around. What attracted Griboyedov to this provincial girl? …
Part 1. Family
Part 2. Cornet of a non-shiny regiment
Part 3. College of Foreign Affairs
Part 4. Music and diplomacy
Part 5. Secretary of a traveling mission
Part 6. To Moscow, to Moscow
Part 7. 25 fools for one sane
Part 8. Great emptiness of the plot
Griboyedov never took all his connections with women seriously. He easily forgot his numerous skin-visual friends - the ladies of the half-light. “The properties of the skin vector require constant novelty of sensations,” explains Yuri Burlan at his lectures on systemic vector psychology.
By correspondence and conversations with friends, it was not noticed that Griboyedov expressed a desire to acquire a family. His only love was literature, which he dreamed of doing. Alexander did not make Nastasya Fyodorovna happy with a marriage with a rich bride, guaranteeing himself and his mother a comfortable existence in old age. He valued his own freedom too much to trade it.
Experienced in dealing with ladies, he did not suffer from loneliness in the Caucasus either. Persian laws "without any obligations", unofficially, even allowed Russian diplomats to keep concubines. Naturally, Alexander took advantage of this. “The Koran allows to conclude marriages for one month perfectly legally and with universal approval, while it is not even necessary to practice Islam … Alexander liked the idea unusually, and a month later he did not recognize his house, filled with not one, but many women, one more charming than the other "(Ekaterina Tsimbaeva." Griboyedov ").
One can only guess why he, having a "Garden of Eden of Persian Hurias", married Nina Chavchavadze, a poor girl and completely uneducated in comparison with Alexander Sergeevich. Her virtues were princely origin, beauty and youth, but there were many like Nina around. What attracted Griboyedov to this provincial girl?
Nina Chavchavadze
Even on his first visit to Georgia, Alexander Griboyedov met in Tiflis with the impoverished princely families of the Akhverdovs and Chavchavadze. They loved Griboyedov here and waited impatiently. Praskovya Nikolaevna Akhverdova accepted Alexander as her own son or nephew. Here he felt much freer than his mother in a Moscow house.
Wanting to improve the musical technique of his students, the brilliant musician sometimes gave piano lessons to the children of Praskovya Nikolaevna Akhverdova and Alexander Chavchavadze.
Both families grew up beautiful girls-brides with their oriental beauty. Although all the military youth of Tiflis hunted after Sofya Akhverdova and Nina Chavchavadze, they were in no hurry to marry them.
“Don't congratulate me on this appointment. They will kill us there"
Returning from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus, Griboyedov still remained in Tiflis, not daring to go to Persia. He again frequently visited the Akhverdovs, where he was always welcome. Unexpectedly for himself, Alexander suddenly saw how Nina Chavchavadze, whom he knew as a child, matured and flourished.
The plenipotentiary minister proposed to her, beating off all the other suitors, the same impoverished nobles like himself. Nina's mother and grandmother blessed their engagement. The family of Chavchavadze and Akhverdovs were happy to marry the dowry princess.
The wedding was supposed to take place not earlier than winter. By the end of the year, Paskevich was expected to return from the army, and from Persia Griboyedov himself, whom they could not get rid of there. Alexander Sergeevich, returning from a military disposition, felt the approach of attacks of fever, which he had known from last year. Nina was there and took care of the patient.
Feeling better, Griboyedov decided not to postpone the wedding and asked Akhverdova to prepare everything for the wedding, which took place in August 1828.
Natural choice
What attracted Griboyedov to this provincial girl, whom he decided to marry immediately, explains the system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan.
A. S. Griboyedov was on the eve of important political events that could cost him his life. Any man, experiencing mortal danger, within the framework of a natural minimum program, seeks to fulfill his specific role. So, since ancient times, the stress of war and the unconscious fear of death have driven the male in search of a female to transmit ejaculate in order to continue itself in time. This, for example, explains all the military-type rape that women are subjected to after the victorious army enters the city.
Premonitions in the visual vector created in Alexander the feeling of impending trouble. “Don't congratulate me on this appointment. They will kill us there,”he repeated, saying goodbye to his friends.
Subconsciously, he chose an anal-visual woman, clean, domestic, which he had never been interested in before. Developed anal-visual mothers guarantee their offspring the care and safety they need.
Urgent wedding
Alexander Sergeevich was pushed to the speedy wedding ceremony by severe and prolonged bouts of malaria, which affected his health. According to the law of the Russian Empire, each employee was required to obtain a marriage license from his immediate superior.
For Griboyedov, this was Count Nesselrode. The vice-chancellor would not object to his marriage to a Georgian princess and would hasten to give his "official" blessing, just to keep Alexander in the Caucasus, but this correspondence would have taken the whole autumn.
Griboyedov was in a hurry, not knowing how his next trip to Tehran would end, he asked Paskevich to give permission for the wedding. Paskevich agreed, he was sure that his excess of authority in wartime conditions would not cause the indignation of the St. Petersburg authorities.
On the day of the wedding, Alexander had such a severe fever that he barely remembered how the wedding ceremony took place. Shivering in a violent chill, he dropped the wedding ring from his hands, it fell to the floor. The guests saw this as a bad sign.
Alexander's relatives were not present at the ceremony. Nastasya Fyodorovna, instead of congratulations and parental blessings, sent her son a disgusting stinging letter.
To Tehran
In September, Griboyedov with Nina and the mission assistants went to Persia. The journey took many weeks. Upon arrival in Tabriz, it turned out that Nina was expecting a child. Alexander left her under the auspices of the wives of British diplomats, if necessary, a doctor could be found here.
He himself, with the full complement of the mission, including the newcomers Maltsov and Adelung, servants and Cossacks, went to the capital to the old shah in order to receive from him the indemnity demanded by St. Petersburg and the delivery of Russian prisoners driven into the interior of the country.
In Tehran, an experienced scout's eye noticed that the city was absent from British officials, who, as observers, were usually present at all Russian-Iranian negotiations. This circumstance could not but alert Alexander. After completing all negotiations with Feth-Ali Shah and exchanging gifts, as prescribed by diplomatic etiquette, Griboyedov was in a hurry to leave the capital of Persia and return to Tabriz.
He was detained by the official Yakub Markarian, who was in charge of the affairs of the harem and the main keeper of all the jewels. The eunuch was well aware of the riches of the shah, who played the role of an unmercenary before Griboyedov in order not to pay indemnity to Russia.
Armenian Khoja Mirza Yakub Markaryan expressed a desire to return to his homeland in Erivan. Although, according to one of the provisions of the Turkmanchay Treaty, he, as a Christian and a former prisoner, received the right to an unhindered return to Armenia, annexed to Russia, Alexander was wary of his request, but could not refuse.
The Shah was angry, confident that now there was no secret about the state of the Persian treasury for the Russian plenipotentiary minister. All the demands of the courtiers to extradite Yakub Markaryan Griboyedov rejected on the basis of the Turkmanchay Peace Treaty: Mirza Yakub "is now a Russian subject and that the Russian envoy has no right to extradite him, nor deny him his patronage." Griboyedov was not going to deviate from the letter of the law, which he himself wrote.
The intransigent integrity and legitimate demands of the diplomat aroused the indignation of the court and the higher clergy. After the death of the old shah, some of the Tehran nobles themselves were not averse to taking his place, so they were not satisfied with the position of Russia, which recognized the son of the shah Abbas Mirza from Tabriz as the heir. The court camarilla, for the sake of its own interests, provoked by the British, actively turned the father against his son, who had “sold out” to Russia.
Corrupt courtiers pushed the shah to sever relations with Russia and demand to deprive the status of plenipotentiary minister Griboyedov. His presence as a Russian diplomatic representative was a serious obstacle for the British, who did not give up hope of regaining Persia.
The reactionary nobles organized popular anti-Russian indignation, using as an excuse the hideout in the Russian diplomatic mission of the "defector-thief" Yakub Markarian and two captured Armenian women from the Allayar Khan harem as an excuse for Russia, but offensive for the Iranians.
There was a long-standing conflict between Griboyedov and Allayar Khan. It is easy to guess that the runaway women were dummies. It is difficult to imagine that captives could escape from a guarded harem, and even find their way to the Russian mission on their own.
The Shiite clergy joined the anti-Russian conspiracy. The mullahs spread rumors in Tehran discrediting the Russian mission and the most plenipotentiary minister, and calling the people to the mosque, they declared jihad - a holy war on the infidels.
On January 30, 1829, an angry crowd of thousands destroyed and looted the building of the Russian diplomatic mission in Tehran. In a fight with rabid fanatics, 37 people died: diplomats, guards, servants, a Cossack convoy and a plenipotentiary minister, playwright, one of the most talented statesmen of his time, Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov.
Black rose of Tiflis
The body of the plenipotentiary minister, mutilated beyond recognition and decapitated, was found in a ditch outside the city and identified by a little finger and a ring, twisted and pierced by a bullet from a long-standing duel. His remains were placed in a coffin filled with oil and sent to Georgia. The funeral procession, delayed by the plague quarantine, approached Tiflis only on July 17.
Nina learned about the events in Tehran and her husband's death from Paskevich's wife. She started giving birth prematurely. The boy, who was named Alexander after his father, lived for one hour. Having remained a widow at the age of 17, Nina Alexandrovna Griboyedova-Chavchavadze never married, rejecting all marriage proposals. She lived her life alone, as is often the case with anal-visual women, doing charity work and helping those in need, keeping in her heart the only love for Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov.
Exhaustion of the conflict
Iran, fearing Russian revenge, tried by all known means to absolve itself of the blame for the Tehran tragedy. The British helped him in this, having published several books of alleged eyewitnesses, confirming the offensive behavior of the Russian diplomat towards the Shah and the Persians. Nicholas I was also made to believe in a falsified story, having cajoled the tsar with expensive gifts and flattering speeches.
The Russian emperor consigned the ill-fated Tehran incident to "eternal oblivion." Among the poets, Griboyedov became the first victim of the Russian monarch. The next will be Pushkin, and then Lermontov …
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