Fyodor Tyutchev spent much of his adult life as a Russian diplomat in Munich, where he moved in the circles of Schelling and Heine and wrote poetry almost as a private hobby — publishing so infrequently that Pushkin famously printed a batch of his poems in Sovremennik without most readers knowing who had written them. The 2003 issue marks the bicentennial of his birth.
Fyodor Tyutchev spent much of his adult life as a Russian diplomat in Munich, where he moved in the circles of Schelling and Heine and wrote poetry almost as a private hobby — publishing so infrequently that Pushkin famously printed a batch of his poems in Sovremennik without most readers knowing who had written them. The 2003 issue marks the bicentennial of his birth.