A masterful card sharper, a brilliant shooter and an unsurpassed fencer, he defended the Fatherland and his own honor with weapons in his hands, was demoted and with desperate courage regained his ranks with awards. He bowed to the audience from the theater box, when from the stage they said about him: “A night robber, a duelist, / Was exiled to Kamchatka, returned as an Aleut, / And his hand is not pure; /Yes, an intelligent person cannot help but be a rogue.” He fraudulently participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world, became famous as a warrior and conqueror of women's hearts on three continents, amazed his contemporaries with a tattoo and walked all over Russia from east to west. He was a descendant of an old noble family and the best hunter in a tribe of savages, he was the prototype of book heroes and the hero of salon gossip - the famous adventurer Count Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy, nicknamed the American.