Biography Tyutchevs parents

The grandmother of Fedor Ivanovich along the mother’s line, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, was the sister of the famous commander A. In the year, Ekaterina Mikhailovna suddenly died, and her husband, Lev Vasilyevich Tolstoy, gave her children - three sons and eight daughters - to study and upbringing of relatives. Fedor and Ivan Andreevich Osterman were the last representatives of a kind, therefore, at their request and by decree of Catherine II, the surname Ostermanov was transferred to their grandchildren Andrei Ivanovich Osterman.

Andrei Ivanovich is sometimes called Uncle Fedor Ivanovich. However, the kinship between them was even more distant than with the writers of the thick. However, the property in the female line in Rus' has always been valued, so the Tyutchevs retained the warmest relationship with them. Fedor Andreevich and Anna Vasilievna Ostermans carefully took care of her niece and it was in the Moscow House of Ostermanov, located between the Solyanka and the Vorontsov field, her acquaintance from the guard, lieutenant Ivan Nikolayevich Tyutchev.

In the year they got married and after the wedding left for Ovstug. The first biographer of F. Tyutchev, his son -in -law Ivan Aksakov, characterizes Ekaterina Lvovna as "a woman of a wonderful mind, lean nervous addition, with an inclination of hypochondria, with a fantasy developed to pain. Partly accepted in the secular circle of habit, partly due to the upbringing of Ekaterina Lvovna, in this, quite Russian, the family of Tyutchyes.

The French language, so not only all the conversations, but the whole correspondence of parents with children and children, both at that time and then, throughout life, was carried out only in French.

Prayer prayers at home, in the sleeping, and in general with all the features of the Russian Orthodox and noble life. " Ekaterina Lvovna was distinguished by the conservatism of the views inherent in many Moscow nobles, and her sons, Nikolai and Fedor, even in adulthood seemed to her big liberals. Despite the constant fears for her life and health, Ekaterina Lvovna survived to the advanced age: she died in May, for several months, not living until 90 years.

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.