What is Fyodor Tyutchev?
{{Infobox writer | name = Fyodor Tyutchev | image = Fyodor Tyutchev.jpg | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|December 5|1803|November 23}} | birth_place = Ovstug near Bryansk, [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{OldStyleDate|July 27|1873|July 15}} (aged 69) | death_place = Tsarskoe Selo, Russian Empire }} '''Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev''' ([[Russia|rus]]: ''Фёдор Иванович Тютчев'', fyô'dər ēvä'nəvĭch tyū'chĭf) ([[December 5]] [[1803]] – [[July 27]], [[1873]]) was one of the most significant [[Russia]]n [[poet]]s. Almost 20 years of his life he spent in [[Munich]] and [[Turin]]. Tyutchev was a good friend of [[Heinrich Heine]], knew [[German idealism|Schelling]] as well. Tyutchev didn’t want people to know him as a poet. He didn’t take any part in a literary life. == Works == He has around 400 of his poems. Russian people quote them very often. His early poems are made in Russian poetic tradition of the [[18th century|XVIII]] century. In the [[1830s]] we can find an influence of European (especially German) [[romanticism]] on Tyutchev’s lyrics. He writes philosophic poems about the universe, nature and human being. In [[1840s]] Tyutchev wrote several articles about relations between [[Russia]] and [[Western world|Occidental civilization]]. In [[1850s]] Tyutchev created several heartfelt poems, in which we can see love as a tragedy. These poems are combined into one cycle, named “Denisievsky”. “Denisievsky” means dedicated to a mistress of Tyutchev – Elena Alexandrovna Denisieva. In [[1860s]]–[[1870s]] Tyutchev wrote mainly political poems. The most famous Tyutchev's poem is “Silentium!”. This is a hard appeal to be [[silence|silent]]. Because a man never can understand another person. A line “A word once uttered is untrue” is one of the most popular [[aphorism]]s of Tyutchev. As well as “We can’t understand Russia by the reason” and “We are not know, what will be the respond for our word”. == Other websites == * [http://ruthenia.ru/tiutcheviana/index.html Tyutcheviana (in russian)] * [http://ruthen