Several of his poems (including "On Napoleon's Retreat", 1812) appeared in Vestnik Evropy, Syn Otechestva and Amphion.

He authored several original comedies (among them Little Demon on Vacation, 1818, and The Bringing Up or Here's Your Dowry, 1824), as well as numerous re-workings of the popular French vaudevilles, to be produced by the Imperial Theatres in Russia.

A staunch champion of classicism in Russian literature, he favoured 'artiness' which many of his contemporaries ridiculed as lifeless pomposity, and was one of the major detractors of Alexander Griboyedov and his Woe from Wit.

He avidly promoted the salon culture in Moscow, wrote plays for amateur performances, participated in them, and was the leader of an artistic group which included Mikhail Zagoskin, Mikhail Dmitriyev, Alexander Pisarev, Sergey Aksakov and Alexander Shakhovskoy.

[2] His grandson Fyodor Fyodorovich Kokoshkin, Jr. (1871-1918) was one of the founders of Russian Constitutional Democratic Party.