At the Lyceum Pushkin had a somewhat ridiculous nickname, which was assigned to the poet not only in appearance, but also in his habits. Namely, his person was called " a mixture of monkey and tiger."
Not as strange as this comparison has not yet met in the quotes about love. Here is for example entry found in diary granddaughter Kutuzov-D. F. Fikelmon: "Impossible be more ugly – this mixture of looks monkeys and tiger; he is happening from African ancestors, and retained still some blackness in the eyes of and something wild in retrospect.” But the following entry, which was apparently written after more detailed acquaintance with the poet, radically changes representation about it. “When he speaks, you forget what he lacks to be beautiful, his conversation is so interesting, sparkling with intelligence, without any pedantry... it is Impossible to be less pretentious and more intelligent in the manner of expression."