In particular, his most known painting, The military parade on October 6, 1831 in Tsaritsyn Lug, Saint Petersburg incorporates portraits of a number of his famous contemporaries, including Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Ivan Krylov, and Nikolay Gnedich.
Nikolay Nekrasov | Nikolay Atanasov | Nikolay Rumyantsev | Nikolay Pirogov | Nikolay Bogolyubov | Nikolay Trusov | Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky | Nikolay Strunnikov | Nikolay Semyonov | Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky | Nikolay Kozlov | Nikolay Kostomarov | Nikolay Haytov | Nikolay Gnedich | Nikolay Antonov | Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov | Nikolay Vasilyevich Komarov | Nikolay Smolensky | Nikolay Shkot | Nikolay Raevsky (died 1843) | Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov | Nikolay Okhlopkov | Nikolay Muravyov | Nikolay Mamonov | Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. | Nikolay Krestinsky | Nikolay Kolosovsky | Nikolay Koksharov | Nikolay Khomeriki | Nikolay Kedrov, Sr. |
The library staff included prominent men of letters and scholars like Ivan Krylov, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolay Gnedich, Anton Delvig, Mikhail Zagoskin, Alexander Vostokov, and Father Ioakinf, to name but a few.