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LMAO, Count Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov was a senator and 'writer of 3rd-rate verse', which made him the butt of relentless ridicule by fellow poets, Pushkin included.

This dude's Wikipedia page says he suffered from 'graphomania' - an 'obsessive impulse to write' (and presumably to see one's own name in print). LMFAO!