 He instigated a dispute over the proper method of translating ottava rima, a dispute which resulted in Pushkin's poem "The Little House in Kolomna".Katenin's early ballads had an appreciable influence on the Russian ballads of Pushkin, who esteemed Katenin highly and was almost alone in doing justice to his poetry.In his later work Katenin became excessively archaic, finally breaking away from the taste of the day.