The tombstone was discovered on the territory of Lipetsk in 1974 and it gave rise to many questions and disputes about the location of the grave of Alexey Fyodorovich. According to one version, the poet’s great-grandfather was buried in the Lipsky Iron Works settlement (now the city of Lipetsk) in the Pushkin necropolis, which was supposedly located at the Ascension Cathedral.

The temple was built in the middle of the 18th century; it adorned Voznesenskaya Square of the city (present-day Theater Square). It has not survived and was demolished in the 1960s. According to eyewitnesses, the tombstone was brought from the center of Lipetsk along with construction debris and earth, just from the site of the cathedral, which indirectly confirms this version.

Other historians believe that the grave of Alexey Fyodorovich Pushkin is located in the village of Korenevshchino, Dobrovsky district, Lipetsk region, where the Pushkin family estate was located. Usually, landowners were buried in a churchyard near the parish church in their own estates. It is unlikely that the body of the deceased was transported from Korenevshchino to the village of artisans, which was then the city of Lipetsk, during the November thaw, several tens of kilometers away.

The 1777 parish book of the Intercession Church in the village of Korenevshchino that has a record about the death of Captain Pushkin also testifies in favor of the latter hypothesis. In addition, the remains of the children, who were buried long before their father’s death, were probably not transported to the settlement of the Lipsky ironworks. Currently, none of the versions can be fully confirmed or refuted.