In the Kirsanov Local History Museum there is a photograph of L. Boratynsky with a dedication inscription “To my godson Mikhail Andreevich Zaveryachev for a lasting memory from L. Boratynsky”. Lev Andreevich Boratynsky (1848–1907) was Moscow vice-governor (1890–1902), Active State Councillor (from 1899), nephew of the poet Y. Boratynsky. Mikhail Andreevich Zaveryachev was the son of the Boratynskys’ estate manager in the village of Ilyinovka, Kirsanov District; after his father’s death he became the estate manager himself.

Lev Andreevich’s father, Andrey Ilyich Boratynsky (1813–1889), served in the Hussar regiment, from 1846 — in the Moscow Palace Office, and in 1848 retired and moved with his young wife and newborn son Lev to the Tambov estate. The family lived in Ilyinovka for about ten years, and then, at the insistence of his wife’s elderly parents, the Boratynskys moved to the estate of Yamishchevo in Zvenigorod District near Moscow.

Mikhail Andreevich Boratynsky’s family returned to Ilyinovka in 1877, and he himself moved there in 1882 and became the last owner of the estate. Mikhail Andreevich Zaveryachev was born in 1855, a few years before the Boratynskys’ family left for the estate near Moscow. In 1858 his father, together with all the family (his wife and two children), was manumitted by the landlord A. I. Boratynsky.

This is how the lord expressed his trust and goodwill towards this family. M. A. Zaveryachev’s father was given a new honorable post, becoming the manager of the estate. The fact that the landlord’s son became the godfather of the manager’s son was also a sign of goodwill on the part of the former. Interestingly enough, Boratynsky became godfather when he apparently was only seven years old.

Like his father, Mikhail Andreevich Zaveryachev was close to the Boratynsky family, who trusted and valued him as a conscientious servant and as an intelligent, thinking person. Mikhail Andreevich kept books with autographs of members of the Boratynsky family. Among them are the work of M. A. Boratynsky “The Noble Family of the Boratynskys” and a collection of poems by A. M. Zhemchuzhnikov, father-in-law of Mikhail Andreevich Boratynsky. These books are also housed in the Kirsanov Local History Museum.