Orientalist Lana Ravandi-Fadai: Alexander Griboyedov was the best expert on Iran in the Russian Empire. He died as a result of a massacre at the Russian embassy in Iran in 1829.
Scientists still have not figured out all the circumstances of this tragedy. It is not known for certain whether the attack on the Russian diplomat was the result of random coincidence or deliberately provoked, she says. The head of the Eastern Cultural Center and senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences spoke about the death in an interview with RT.