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The verses of a tormented soul

Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Tyutchev Source: Wikimedia/ Stepan Aleksandrovsky Public Domain

Soloukhin Literary-Theatrical Society in Melbourne is presenting an evening of music and poetry dedicated to the 215th anniversary from birth of the poet and statesman Fyodor Tyutchev. The program presenter and organiser Olga Shonina thinks that he was one of the most mysterious Russian lyricist may be due to his complicated love life . He was married twice to German aristocratic women and for 14 years had a Russian mistress he loved dearly and dedicated many finest love poems to her, which later became so-called "Denisyeva Cycle"


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Soloukhin Literary-Theatrical Society in Melbourne is presenting an evening of music and poetry dedicated to the 215th anniversary from birth of the poet and statesman Fyodor Tyutchev. The program presenter and organiser Olga Shonina thinks that he was one of the most mysterious Russian lyricist may be due to his complicated love life . He was married twice to German aristocratic women and for 14 years had a Russian mistress he loved dearly and dedicated many finest love poems to her, which later became so-called "Denisyeva Cycle"


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