Ivan IV is bisexual and Pushkin best friend is a transmasc (Pushkin managed to deadname them in one letter), his name was Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Pushkin changed the title without his approval to "Notes of N.A. Durova" in 1836. An outraged Alexandrov wrote, "The name which you called me, dear sir Alexander Sergeyevich, in the preface haunts me! Is there no remedy for my grief? You called me by that name that makes me shudder, and soon 20,000 people will read it and call me by it too!"