A Primary theme of the recently published "Notes" of Mikhail Petrovich Zagriazhskii (1770-1836) concerns matters erotic.(1) While acknowledging a mostly uneventful life, Zagriazhskii thought to divert his offspring with tales of what he had done or what he had heard from eyewitnesses in a manner more useful than "contrived meaningless novels."(2) He may have been a born storyteller, as was his younger contemporary and eventual relative by marriage, the renowned poet, versatile writer, and aristocrat Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837).
Muromov, "Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin" in Sto velikikh liubovnikov (Moscow, 1998), 108-16.