Fyodor Tyutchev's father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev was a court councillor who served in the Kremlin Expedition that managed all building and restoration works of Moscow palaces.
21 Facts About Fyodor Tyutchev
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Fyodor Tyutchev's first printed work was a translation of Horace's epistle to Maecenas, published when he was still 15.
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From 1819 to 1821 Fyodor Tyutchev studied at the Philological Faculty of Moscow University.
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Amelie was coerced by her relatives into marrying the much older Krudener, but she and Fyodor Tyutchev continued to be friends and frequented the same diplomatic society in Munich.
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Fyodor Tyutchev's last meeting with Amelie took place on March 31,1873 when she visited him on his deathbed.
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Fyodor Tyutchev became the mother of his daughter Anna Tiuttjev.
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That is hardly surprising since Fyodor Tyutchev spoke French better than Russian and nearly all his private correspondence was in the former language.
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In 1837, Fyodor Tyutchev was transferred from Munich to the Russian legation in Turin.
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Fyodor Tyutchev found his new place of residence uncongenial to his disposition and after marrying Ernestine, he resigned from his position there to settle in Munich.
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Fyodor Tyutchev continued to live in Germany for five more years without position before returning to Russia.
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Not long after his return to Russia, Fyodor Tyutchev was reinstated in government service as a censor, rising eventually to become Chairman of the Foreign Censorship Committee and a Privy Councillor.
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Fyodor Tyutchev loved to travel, often volunteering for diplomatic courier missions as a way of combining business with pleasure.
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Fyodor Tyutchev was particularly drawn to the Swiss lakes and mountains.
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Fyodor Tyutchev regarded his poems as bagatelles, not worthy of publication.
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Fyodor Tyutchev generally did not care to write them down and, if he did, he would often lose papers they were scribbled upon.
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Fyodor Tyutchev remained his mistress until her death from tuberculosis in 1864, and she bore him three children.
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Fyodor Tyutchev was a militant Pan-Slavist, who never needed a particular reason to berate the Western powers, Vatican, Ottoman Empire or Poland, the latter perceived by him as a Judas in the Slavic fold.
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Fyodor Tyutchev warmly welcomed most of the reforms of Tsar Alexander II, particularly the Emancipation Reform of 1861.
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Fyodor Tyutchev is one of the most memorized and quoted Russian poets.
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Fyodor Tyutchev commonly operates with such categories as night and day, north and south, dream and reality, cosmos and chaos, still world of winter and spring teeming with life.
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Unsurprisingly, it was not until the late 19th and early 20th century that Fyodor Tyutchev was rediscovered and hailed as a great poet by the Russian Symbolists such as Vladimir Solovyov, Andrey Bely and Alexander Blok.