Poems

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803–1873) was a prominent Russian poet, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, translator, diplomat, and official. Continuing the traditions of Lomonosov and Derzhavin, Tyutchev, known for the fragmentary form of his poems and the cosmization of human existence, was unlike any of his contemporaries. In his philosophical lyrics, the motifs of the tragic duality of the soul resonate distinctly, caught between faith and disbelief, connection to the higher, "divine," spheres of being and the fate of earthly, "mortal," existence, loneliness in society, and lostness in the universe. This collection presents a large part of Tyutchev's entire poetic legacy.