Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev is the most romantic poet of Russia, a master of landscape and love lyrical works. His poems are touching, bright, reverent. But the life of the great poet was complex, replete with both bright and sad moments.
Here are a few facts about Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev:
- Fedor Tyutchev(1803-1873) - poet, lyricist, publicist, politician, diplomat, thinker and translator.
- As a child, Tyutchev was educated at home, where his teacher was the poet and translator Semyon Raich.
- Did you know that Fyodor Tyutchev was a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy
- While still a teenager, Fedor mastered Latin and ancient Greek, as a result of which at the age of 12 he began translating the works of Horace.
- He dedicated poems to all the girls with whom Tyutchev was in love.
- Tyutchev was skeptical about his works, since he did not consider himself a good poet.
- An interesting fact is that Fyodor Tyutchev had 9 children born in different marriages.
- Tyutchev became a university student when he was barely 14 years old.
- In 1857, the poet was admitted to the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
- It is curious that more than 1,300 letters from Fyodor Tyutchev have survived to this day.
- Tyutchev, like many of his contemporaries, admired Pushkin, as a result of which he dedicated 2 poems to him.
- Asteroid number 9927, which fell in 1981, was named in honor of Tyutchev.
- Fyodor Tyutchev wrote poetry not only in Russian, but also in German.
- Over the years of his life, the poet wrote more than 400 poems.