Prince Grigory Vasilyevich Kugushev was a Russian writer, poet and playwright whose comedies, including Goluboi Kapot, Pari, Priyomysh had considerable, if not lasting, success in the Russian Imperial Theatres in 1850s. More substantial and critically acclaimed were Kugushev's works of fiction, notably Kornet Otletayev and the four-part novel Postoronneye Vliyaniye. He also wrote the libretto for the epic drama opera Mazeppa (1859) by Baron
Boris Fitinhof-Schell.
