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Fet became a very close friend of Tolstoy. The great man enthused about Fet’s poems for many years. Then, when his attitude to art changed, he attacked Fet mercilessly.
Begins friendship with Tolstoy, who shared Fet's distaste with the liberal critics; later introduces Tolstoy to the works of Schopenhauer. 1877 Buys a larger estate where he winters. 1878 Writes "Death" another of his death wish poems 1881 Translates Schopenhauer into Russian. 1889
- Biography
- Tchaikovsky and Fet
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- General Reflections on Fet
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The poet's mother, a German woman called Charlotte Foeth (d. 1844), eloped from her husband Johann Foeth with the wealthy landowner Afanasy Neofitovich Shenshin (1770–1854), who had come to Darmstadt in early 1820 for medical treatment. Shenshin took her to his ancestral estate in the province of Oryol, where later that year she gave birth to a boy...
Tchaikovsky had a particular fondness for the poetry of Fet, which is reflected not just in the fascinating letters he exchanged with Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich in 1888 (quoted in full below), observing how his finest poetry could only properly be compared to music and how Fet often reminded him of Beethoven, but also in the fact that th...
First untitled poem (1842) from the cycle To Ophelia (К Офелии, 1842–47) — set to music by Tchaikovsky in the late 1850s as My Genius, My Angel, My Friend(Мой гений, мой ангел, мой друг).Do Not Leave Me (1842), first untitled poem from the cycle Melodies (Мелодии) — set to music by Tchaikovsky in 1875 as Do Not Leave Me (Не отходи от меня) — No. 3 of the Six Romances and Songs, Op....To a Songstress (1857) — set to music by Tchaikovsky as Take My Heart Away (Уноси моё сердце) — No. 1 of the Two Songs (1873).Beethoven's Appeal to his Beloved (1857) — set to music by Tchaikovsky in 1872 as Accept Just Once (Пойми хоть раз) — No. 3 of the Six Romances, Op. 16.In Tchaikovsky's Letters
1. Letter 755 to Nadezhda von Meck, 9/21 February 1878, from Florence, in which Tchaikovsky first talks about his love for Russia, his recent reading of Schopenhauer, and then emphasizes that in his music he had frequently sought to express the agony and bliss of love: 1. Letter 3578 to Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, 30 May/11 June 1888, in which Tchaikovsky discusses the trochaic pentameter used by the Grand Duke in a poem and points out in one verse a caesura which he felt was unjus...
In Tchaikovsky's Diaries
1. Entry for 1/13 February 1890, Florence:
А. А. Фет. Полное собрание стихотворени(1959) [introductory article by Boris Bukhstab]Nov 29, 2006 · Needless to recall, Tolstoy did not become an apologist for serfdom as did his intimate friend Fet (Shenshin), landlord and subtle lyric poet, in whose heart a tender receptivity to nature and to love was coupled with adoring prostration before the salutary whiplash of feudalism.
In Turgenev’s house Fet met Leo Tolstoy, then a young officer fresh from the Crimean War, which resulted in lifelong friendship. Not only did Nekrasov actively promote Fet as a poet, he obviously preferred his work to that of others, his own included.
A great friend of Leo Tolstoy, Fet was a deep thinking, often fatalistic poet who wrote a number of poems on the grim subject of death, although he framed these verses to make death sound like something to look forward to. Later in his life he translated many of Schopenhauer’s works into Russian.
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28. ON A December morning in 1855 the poet A. A. Fet, then an army officer on a furlough to Petersburg, called upon his good friend Turgenev for a glass of tea and a chat. In the hallway he...
