Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Who is Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Тю́тчев, tr. Fyódor Ivánovič Tyútčev, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈtʲʉt͡ɕːɪf]; Pre-Reform orthography: Ѳедоръ Ивановичъ Тютчевъcode: rus promoted to code: ru ; December 5 [O.S. November 23] 1803 – July 27 [O.S. July 15] 1873) was a Russian poet and diplomat.
Life
Tyutchev was born into a Russian noble family in the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk (modern-day Zhukovsky District, Bryansk Oblast of Russia). His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev (1768—1846) was a court councillor who served in the Kremlin Expedition that managed all building and restoration works of Moscow palaces. One of Ivan's sister Evdokia Meshcherskaya (1774—1837), was a hegu...
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Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev Poems
- You Often Watched Him
You often watched him on the high life's level, -
The gaily-selfish or with gloomy sight,
Or full of thoughts, or scatted one and wild,
As poets are - and you've scorned him forever!
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- Nature Is Not As You Imagine Her...
Nature is not as you imagine her:
She's not a mold, nor yet a soulless mask-
She is made up of soul and freedom
She is made up of love and speech . . .
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- My Soul, My Prophetic Pain
My soul, my prophetic pain!
My heart, forever filled with bother,
O how throb you on a border,
Of two realities, in vain!...
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- O, How Our Love Is Murderous
O, how our love is murderous,
The dearer something is to us
The surer are we to destroy it
In passion's savage blindness!
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- The Earth A Cheerless Look Still Wears
The earth a cheerless look still wears,
But spring's breath is already swaying
The dead stalks in the field and playing
With boughs as yet of leafage bare.
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- 51st__state: "... no need to deceive ourselves anymore - russia, in all likelihood, will enter into a fight with the whole of europe"
1854 on the eve of the crimean war.
- fyodor ivanovich tyutchev
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- Inveniam: british historian sir antony james beevor quoted the great russian poet fyodor ivanovich tyutchev in the opening of his book about the battle for stalingrad: “russia cannot be understood with the mind alone.” i would add, "and neither can ukraine!".
- Kochnevofficial: russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
no ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
she stands alone unique —
in russia one can only believe.
fyodor ivanovich tyutchev, russian poet.
- Kochnevofficial: russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
no ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
she stands alone unique —
in russia one can only believe.
fyodor ivanovich tyutchev, russian poet.
- Kochnevofficial: russia cannot be understood with the mind alone,
no ordinary yardstick can span her greatness:
she stands alone unique —
in russia one can only believe.
fyodor ivanovich tyutchev, russian poet.
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