This makes me wonder how Lehndorff would feel! There's that passage in his diaries that wonders about this kind of thing, after all... I suppose he would be disappointed that no one has really written the AU where Heinrich finally ditches his no-good boyfriends for Lehndorff, but perhaps glad that his friendship with Heinrich was important enough to have fic written about it?

Voltaire: Well, of course people would write about me, hundreds of years later! I would expect no less.
Voltaire: *can't stop himself from reading the fic*
Voltaire: It's all lies! Calumny and lies! I shall write a pamphlet write an anonymous discourse on the interwebs about how wrong these authors are!
Voltaire: Except that story about how I don't like bullies. That was quite perceptive, really.