For the Sake of Honor is a drama in four acts by the great Armenian playwright and novelist Alexandre Shirvanzade, who has played an exceptional role in the Armenian dramaturgy and theater. He expanded the boundaries of drama genre, created domestic, social, psychological and political dramas. In 1916, Maxim Gorki wrote that Shirvanzade's works "were known and read not only in the Caucasus but also in England, in the Scandinavian Peninsula, and Italy." In his later years, Shirvanzade lived abroad, finally returning permanently to Yerevan in 1926. He died in Kislovodsk in 1935, and was buried in Yerevan.