The portrait of Abram Boratynsky by the brush of an unknown painter was kept in the collection belonging to his direct descendant Michail Boratynsky until the year of 1919. Then, together with other portraits of the Boratynskys’ members, it was given to the Provincial Tambov Museum of Fine Arts, which later became the part of the Tambov Regional Ethnography Museum. 

On December 6, 1796, the Emperor granted Abram Boratynsky and his brother Bogdan with two thousand serf peasants to be settled in Vyazhlya village of theTambov province. By that time, Abram, rising to the full rank of lieutenant general, was awarded the honorary rank of adjutant-general and became commander of the Life-Guards Grenadier regiment. But, a year and a half later, after his falling into disfavor, Boratynsky was fired from the service with the right to wear military uniform; he went to Vyazhlya. In 1804, after a conflict with his brothers, Abram began building his own estate, called Mara, where to some time later he moved his family. Yevgeny Boratynsky, the son of Boratynsky and Alexandra Cherepanova, one of the most important poets of the first half of the 19th century, spent his childhood in Mara.