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For its account of Tyutchev's life it draws on an extensive range of sources, including much previously unpublished archival material. Then, in 1836, sixteen of his poems were published in Pushkin's journal The Contemporary . One of these proved to be the most significant event of Tyutchev's later life. When he returned to Russian and once again joined St.

Petersburg society, he began a more serious literary career. Elena Aleksandrovna Denisieva was an impoverished young noblewoman, with whom Tyutchev had a long and intense affair for fourteen years. Shaken by his mistresses death, Tyutchev wrote little in the following years, and in 1872 a stroke left him paralyzed.

Undoubtedly, this atmosphere also helped to shape Tyutchev's future Slavophile views.

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Datings, addressees and circumstances of composition are established for a number of the poems which have hitherto proved problematic in this respect. Though Tyutchev had a great interest in international politics, and enjoyed socialized in the upper level political circles, he did not have a serious enough attitude toward his diplomatic post to launch a serious career.

In 1839 he left his government post without permission so that he could marry his second wife, and was subsequently discharged from the civil service. [...] With more than four hundred pages of impeccably produced text, plus photographs, copious notes, a comprehensive bibliography and three indexes, [...] this book constitutes excellent value for money.’  Michael Pursglove, East-West Review

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Biography Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev

  • Time Period1803 - 1873
  • Place
  • CountryRussia

Poet Biography

Tyutchev was born on December 5, 1803 on an estate 200 miles southwest of Moscow.

Denisieva became a secondary wife to the poet, bore him three children, nursed him through illness, and supported him during his frequent bouts of melancholia. Tyutchev's public literary career began when he was just 15 years old, when "The Nobleman" was read aloud at the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature, a group organized run by a professor of literature at the University of Moscow.

The couple did not particularly hide their affair, and were stigmatized by society. He was educated at home until he was 17 and was nurtured in an atmosphere of piety, patriotism, and reverence for the throne that often characterized the Muscovite landed gentry of the period.

‘John Dewey’s magnificent book Mirror of the Soul embraces with equal depth and clarity Tyutchev’s extraordinary poetry, philosophy, love life and (un)diplomatic career.

His previous publications include translations of Russian poems, verse and prose, and articles on Russian literature. Not least impressive are the translations of Tyutchev’s lyrics which, unusually for a book of this kind, give the non-Russian speaker a real sense of the originals.’  Malcolm Jones, Emeritus Professor of Slavonic Studies, University of Nottingham

‘The author has convincingly resolved many of the unresolved questions of Tyutchev's biography.

Over the next year other strokes followed, and he died on June 27, 1873.

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[…] Mirror of the Soul is beautifully written and edited. In 1819, Tyutchev entered the University, where he studied for two years and received an advanced degree. The influence of German Romanticism on Tyutchev's writing was great, and he was published in a variety of second-tier journals in this period.

Perhaps due to this burden, their affair was often a difficult one, and included many quarrels. Appointed to the Russian legation in Munich in 1822, he spent much of the next 22 years in the West.