sentences:  The year 1832, when the Georgian plot collapsed, divides his work into two principal periods.Prior to that event, his poetry was mostly impregnated with laments for the former grandeur of Georgia, the loss of national independence and his personal grievances connected with it; his native country under the Russian empire seemed to him a prison, and he pictured its present state in extremely gloomy colors.The death of his beloved friend and son-in-law, Griboyedov, also contributed to the depressive character of his writings of that time.