His poetry is the quintessence of aesthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century.
The oldest of all these worshipers of pure art was Feodor Ivanovitch Tiutcheff (1803-1873).

At the age of seventeen he made a remarkably fine translation of some of Horace's works.

He rose to very fine positions in the diplomatic service and at court.

Although his first poems were printed in 1826, he was not widely known until 1850-1854.

His scope is not large, and he is rather wearisome in his faultless poems.