Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873), from an old noble family, studied at Moscow University and in 1822 entered the foreign service, which sent him to Munich. He lived twenty-two years abroad, in Munich and then Turin, and knew Heine and Schelling there. He regarded his verse as trifles and did not care to publish it: his first collection appeared only in 1854, prepared without him by Turgenev. Back in Russia in 1844, he wrote political articles on Russia and the West, and his liaison with Elena Denisieva inspired a cycle of love poems.

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• PoetrySilentium!Fyodor Tyutchev · 1833LiteraturePublic domain