During this time he published a large number of short novels, stories, and feuilletons, translated various works of English literature into Russian and wrote a biography of the painter Pavel Fedotov.
Under the influence of Pavel Fedotov he painted a series of paintings devoted to the life of ordinary people.
Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (Russian: Павел Андреевич Федотов; 1815 – 1852) was an amateur Russian painter known as a Russian Hogarth.
Pavel Florensky | Pavel Nedvěd | Pavel Litvinov | Pavel Landovský | Pavel Bure | Pavel Alexandrov | Thomas Pavel | Pavel Tsatsouline | Pavel Tonkov | Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn | Pavel Polian | Pavel Milyukov | Pavel Tretyakov | Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov | Pavel Fedotov | Pavel Curtis | Pavel Brutt | Fedotov | Pavel Zhagun | Pavel Yevgenyevich Sokolov | Pavel Yablochkov | Pavel Vrublevsky | Pavel Volya | Pavel Vinogradov | Pavel Tchelitchew | Pavel Svoboda | Pavel Suzor | Pavel Stratan | Pavel Šrut | Pavel Sheremet |