 Inzov's obscure origin and booming career, in combination with his physical likeness to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, led some of his contemporaries to suspect that his father was Emperor Paul I of Russia (who was only 14 years his senior).In the early 1820s, Alexander Pushkin was one of his subordinates at Chişinău (then Kishinev).In the words of Henri Troyat, Inzov "looked upon Pushkin as a being set apart, who must be handled carefully".