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This is the first in a new series of videos\/podcasts drawing upon what I have written and published here at Culturedallroundman.com. The podcast returns to the very first piece I published back on my old WordPress.com site, on Fyodor Tyutchev’s 1830 poem ‘Silentium!’. I expand upon Tyutchev’s life, before reading his poem in Vladimir Nabokov’s translation, published with New Directions in 1944 in\u00a0Three Russian Poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev<\/em>.<\/p>\n The images in the video above\u00a0include: a painting of Tyutchev by Stepan Aleksandrovsky; a postcard illustrating Munich’s Justizpalast in the 1800s; editions of Pushkin’s literary journal \u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0438\u043a<\/em> (‘The Contemporary’<\/em>), founded in 1836; photographs of Saint Petersburg’s canals and Saint Isaac’s Cathedral in the 1800s;\u00a0\u00a0and a plaque in Munich dedicated to Tyutchev, recounting his time spent in the city.<\/p>\n I intend to post a new one of these every few weeks, with other content to come via YouTube<\/a>. The podcast is also available to listen to and download via SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n