Literaturnaya Gazeta was the first to publish Gogol, and published works by Baratynsky, Belinsky, Nekrasov and many other well-known Russian authors.
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In 2013, Nekrasov was reported to be the boyfriend of the Finnish cabinet minister Heidi Hautala, as a Finnish newspaper reported about legal problems related to renovations of a villa Nekrasov owns in Finland.
The avenue passes by several notable locations including the Big House (Liteyny 4), the 19th-century Varvara Dolgoruky mansion (Liteyny 14), Muruzi House with Joseph Brodsky apartment (Liteyny 24), Nekrasov Museum (Liteyny 36), Zinaida Yusupova mansion (Liteyny 42), Mariinsky Hospital (Liteyny 56).
Young Nekrasov grew up on his father's ancestral estate, Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province, near the Volga River.