 Tellingly, in 1828 amidst "The Gabrieliad" scandal, Pushkin tried to ascribe his "dirty" poem to Prince Gorchakov, then four years dead, trying to exploit the latter's reputation as the early 1800s Russia's major "volnodumetz" ("free-thinking man").The first ever attempt to collect Gorchakov's legacy was made in 1890 by his granddaughter Princess Yelena Gorchakova who published "The Works of D.P.Gorchakov" (Сочинения Д.П.Горчакова).