What was Pushkin’s relationship to visual art?

Several hundred portraits: close people, friends, acquaintances, state figures, historical figures, writers. Illustrations of his own works. Single landscape paintings. Drawings of birds, horses and trees. Magnificent in its rhythm, plastic displays, sometimes even transitioning into images. The paintings cover the poet’s manuscripts. Some of them are on separate sheets, outside of the text. In his manuscripts are often found vignettes, endings, designs of cover, sketches of illustrations. A subtle acquaintance with Pushkin graphics A.M. Efros thus defines its content: "This is a diary in images, a visual commentary of Pushkin to himself, a special record of thoughts and feelings, a sort of report on people and events."