Some researchers have claimed that Przhevalsky was a homosexual, who "despised women", and that his young male assistants that accompanied him on each of his journeys (including Nikolay Yagunov, aged 16, Mikhail Pyltsov, Fyodor Eklon, 18, and Yevgraf), could have been his lovers==Myth==There is an urban legend that Joseph Stalin was an illegitimate son of Nikolay Przhevalsky.
Takoj, ko sem napisati vse, kar je potrebno, se bom vrnil v puščavo ... kje bom veliko srečnejši kot v pozlačenih salonih, ki jih lahko pridobim z zakonsko zvezo".