Out of mind

A.S. Griboyedov's comedy "Woe from Wit" was completed in 1824. It was created during a period of change from one worldview to another, and freethinking already took place in those days. The bright end of this process was the Decembrist uprising in 1825. An advanced comedy for its time, it aroused particular interest in society. The disgraced Pushkin, who was in exile in Mikhailovsky, read the comedy and was delighted with it. The main problem of the work is the problem of confrontation between two eras, so characteristic of that time, the problem of two worldviews: the “past century”, which defends the old foundations, and the “present century”, advocating decisive changes.