Zakharov is depicted in the painting by landscape painter Grigory Chernetsov "Parade on October 6, 1831 in St. Petersburg." The list of persons who were to be depicted in the picture was approved personally by Emperor Nicholas I. In the subsequently published list of characters from among the spectators, Zakharov appeared under the number 204[7]. Pyotr's painting Empty Pasture in Afternoon appears prominently in Anthony Marra's book The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories.