A crowd of enraged, anti-Russian, Islamic religious…

A crowd of enraged, anti-Russian, Islamic religious fanatics storms the Russian embassy in Tehran in February 11, 1829, soon after Aleksander Griboyedov’s arrival.

Griboyedov (along with almost everyone else inside) is slaughtered, and his body is for three days so ill-treated by the mob that it is at last recognized only by an old scar on the hand, due to a wound received in a duel.

It is taken to Tiflis and buried in the monastery of Saint David.

His sixteen-year-old widow, Nina, on hearing of his death, gives premature birth to a child, who dies a few hours later. (Nina will live another thirty years after her husband's death, rejecting all suitors and winning universal admiration by her fidelity to his memory.