Monument to F.I. Tyutchev

The monument to F.I. Tyutchev, a Russian poet, philosopher and diplomat, a native of the Bryansk region, was erected on July 27, 2003, the day of the 130th anniversary of the poet’s death.

The figure of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev is a special and important phenomenon in the cultural life of Russia, although little studied. The famous words of the poet “Intelligence does not understand Russia” became a convenient answer to many obscure questions of our lives. His amazingly clean and beautiful poetry has been in our lives since childhood.

The monument to the poet is installed in the square opposite the regional drama theater named after A.K. Tolstoy. Tyutchev appears before us standing, dressed in a travel suit, with a cane and a hat in his hands. The height of the sculpture is 3.6 meters, and the height of the pedestal is 3.9 meters. The weight of the sculpture is three tons, cast her Belarusian masters in Minsk. On the pedestal there are bas-reliefs with views of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Munich, the village of Ovstugh, where Tyutchev lived, worked and worked.

The monument was created on donations of enterprises and personal contributions of citizens under the project of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation A. Kovalchuk (Moscow) and architect of the Bryansk region A. Petrov (Bryansk). In the creation of the monument, a truly national love for the memory and work of the poet is invested. “I see two real monuments in Russia – Pushkin in Moscow and Tyutchev in Bryansk,” Natalia Bondarchuk said at the opening of the monument.