After leaving school in 1817 , Pushkin met Abram 's last surviving son , Peter .
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 , Alexander Pushkin met Ibrahim 's last surviving son , Peter the Great .
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 .