This monument to Alexander Griboyedov is also located on the left bank of the Kura River, on Nikoloz Baratashvili Embankment. Griboyedov, due to the change in the legal status of territories and state-political entities, became a kind of national poet for Georgia, just as Immanuel Kant became a national philosopher for Russia. Although it sounds quite funny, but I have met such statements about Kant in all seriousness. There have been no such instances regarding Griboyedov, however, and Georgians do not consider him their own. In 2021, during one of the outbursts of anti-Russian sentiment in Georgian society, the monument was vandalized (it was pelted with something, apparently eggs).Griboyedov was buried in Tbilisi, then still called Tiflis, despite the fact that he was killed in Tehran. Griboyedov's street in Tbilisi is located on the right bank of the Kura River, but there is no monument there. There is also no monument at the place of his burial. The monument is on the left bank of the Kura River, on the embankment of Nikoloz Baratashvili, who, by the way, also has a monument, but not on the embankment of Baratashvili. There is no need to talk about Griboyedov. His play "Woe from Wit" is known to every educated person, and the story of his life is also known.The monument to Alexander Griboyedov was erected in Soviet times in 1961. It is made in a typical Soviet monumental style. Griboyedov looks aloof and a bit lifeless, but the details of his clothes are made quite realistically.