As a cameraman, Pushkin frequently visited high-ranking individuals, who continued to look at every outstanding talent, both literary and artistic, as something joking and tried to extract from such a talent as much as possible for themselves.
Pushkin was threatened by this attitude toward the artist, and he protested with the help of subtle, sarcastic expromts.
Having appeared once to a high-ranking person, Pushkin found him rolling on the couch and screaming from boredom. At the entrance of the poet, of course, the great man did not think of changing poses, and when Pushkin, having passed what was necessary, wanted to go away, he was ordered to pronounce a joke expromt.
“Children on the floor – the clever man on the couch,” Pushkin said through his teeth.
“Well, what a clever thing,” said the person, “you are on the floor, smart on the couch. I can’t understand...I expected more from you.
Pushkin was silent. An important person, repeating the phrase and moving the slides, finally came to this result: the child was half-smart on the couch, after which, of course, immediately and with indignation released Pushkin.