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! ...
  • 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 . . . ...
  • 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!... ...
  • 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! ...
  • 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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I Love You 17 Love 17 Life 14 Night 13 Soul 13 Earth 13 Heart 12 World 9 Nature 9 God 7


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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 via
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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Psalm 119 Part 10
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Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
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For all my hopes are there.
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