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A crowd attacks Russia’s Tehran mission and kills Griboedov

📅 11 Febrüari 1829

A crowd attacked the Russian mission in Tehran, killing ambassador Alexander Griboedov and other staff. The crisis followed the unequal Turkmenchay settlement; conflicting Iranian and Russian accounts...