alexander pushkin used his great-grandfather abram gannibal as the model for ibrahim, the lead character in his unfinished novel "the moor of peter the great". after leaving school in 1817, pushkin met abram's last surviving son, peter. he met peter again in 1825, after writing in his diary about wanting to "get from him some memoirs about my great-grandfather." he seemed to use his own experiences, along with gannibal's to create the plot for "the moor of peter the great". a stage version of the work was written by carlyle brown and premiered at the alabama shakespeare festival's 13th southern writers' project in march 2001.