On the basis of archival (OR RNL, RO IRLI) and published sources, the history and ways of maintaining informal relations that connected N.I. Buckwheat with A. Kh. Benkendorf, A. F. Orlov, L. V. Dubelt, as well as with S. S. Uvarov, O. P. Kozodavlev, A. N. Golitsyn and others. It will be considered how these relations influenced the development and content of the newspaper and magazine published by Grech.