It is believed that Taganrog's image may be used as "Lukomorye" (fairy tale land) in Alexander Pushkin's "Ruslan and Lyudmila" (1820). It also appeared in the novels of Ivan Vasilenko and Konstantin Paustovsky and in the poems of Nikolay Sherbina and Valentin Parnakh. The conspiratorial legend of "Elder Fyodor Kuzmich" is cited in the book "Roza Mira" by Russian mystic Daniil Andreyev. According to this legend, the Russian tsar Alexander I did not die in Taganrog, but instead left his crown and the status of monarch to continue his life as a traveling hermit. In foreign literature, the city was mentioned in the titles of "Der Tote von Taganrog" by Eberhard von Cranach-Sichart and "Taganrog" by Reinhold Schneider. In 2004 Sabine Wichert published a collection of poems titled "Taganrog". In Maria Kuncewiczowa's 1945 novel "The Stranger" (New York, LB Fischer publisher), the city of Taganrog plays an essential role as a place of nostalgic happiness for the uprooted Polish musician and matriarch, Rose. Numerous Russian and international aristocrats, politicians, artists, and scientists were born and/or have lived in Taganrog. Taganrog is the native city of Anton Chekhov, Faina Ranevskaya, Sophia Parnok, Alexandre Koyré, Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, and Dmitri Sinodi-Popov; names of Russian emperors Peter I of Russia and Alexander I of Russia; Cornelius Cruys, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Adolph Brodsky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nestor Kukolnik, Achilles Alferaki, Ioannis Varvakis, Sergei Bondarchuk, William Frederick Yeames and many other famous people are brought to mind when Taganrog is mentioned. Taganrog is twinned with: