The art collection of the State Pushkin Museum features a lithograph titled “Svyatogorsky Monastery, ” created by Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov, based on a drawing by Ilya Stepanovich Ivanov, in 1837. The lithograph includes a dedication that reads,

During his exile between 1824 and 1826 at Mikhailovskoye, Alexander Pushkin studied materials from the archive and library of the Svyatogorsky Monastery (Svyatye Gory Monastery) for his historical drama, “Boris Godunov”. The poet also enjoyed visiting the local fairs that were held for patronal feasts, during which he listened to vivid and imaginative vernacular, which was later reflected in the characters of “Boris Godunov”.

Other members of the Hannibal-Pushkin family were buried there as well: Pushkin’s grandfather, Osip Abramovich Hannibal (1744–1806), grandmother, Maria Alekseyevna Hannibal (1745–1818), mother, Nadezhda Osipovna Pushkina (1775–1836), and father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin (1767–1848).