The history of the romance "I Met You"
I met you and everything is gone
In an obsolete heart came to life:
I remembered golden time -
And my heart felt so warm.
These lines belong to the poet Fyodor Tyutchev, and they are dedicated to Amalia Lerchenfeld. A young diplomat, Fyodor Tyutchev, arrived at the Russian mission in Munich. He is 18 years old. He managed to graduate from Moscow University in two years. At one of the social events, Tyutchev meets the charming Amalia Lerchenfeld, the illegitimate daughter of the Prussian king Frederick William III. Amalia amazed Tyutchev with her beauty, education, and depth of feelings. Tyutchev is bewitched and enchanted.
However, in 1826 he marries Eleanor Peterson, and Amalia becomes the wife of the first secretary of the Russian embassy in Munich, Baron Krudener. Years passed. Baroness Krudener shines at St. Petersburg balls, Tyutchev continues his diplomatic career. Living far from the Russian capital, in letters to friends he always asks about Mrs. Krudener. He worries: is she as happy as she deserves? In 1836, Tyutchev conveyed through her the manuscript of his poems, to which the author himself did not attach high value. But these poems delighted Pushkin himself and were published in Pushkin’s Sovremennik. And among them are poems dedicated to Amalia:
I remember the golden time
I remember the dear land to my heart,
The day was getting dark, we were two,
Below in the shadows the Danube rustled...
After the death of his first wife, Tyutchev married a second time. He is already the father of a large family. Love has always been a “fatal duel” for Tyutchev. He was 47 when his love provoked a response and strong feeling a very young girl, Elena Deniseva. She sacrificed everything for the sake of her beloved: not only did the “world” turn away from her, her own father turned away from her. In this tragic union, not recognized by either people or the church, Denisyeva bore him three children. This painful love lasted 14 years, until the death of Deniseva, who went to her grave from consumption. Tyutchev wrote:
Oh, how murderously we love!
As in your violent blindness
We are most likely to destroy
What is dearer to our hearts!...
Tyutchev is 67, he goes for treatment to boring Carlsbad and suddenly - new meeting with Amalia. It would seem that two old people have met - everything has passed, everything is in the past, but...
I met you - and everything is gone
In the obsolete heart came to life;
I remembered the golden time -
And my heart felt so warm...
...Many composers wrote music for these poems. But we have heard the melody that Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky gave us - he arranged and recorded this romance. For a long time it was believed that the author of this music was unknown, but sheet music was found - a collection of works by L.D. Malashkin, familiar to us from the romance “Oh, if I could express in sound...”. Ivan Kozlovsky sings a melody similar to the one that Malashkin wrote for the poem “I Met You,” which almost became a folk melody.
VSEVOLOD SAKHAROV
RIDDLES OF FEDOR TYUTCHEV
...There are two most famous Russians love poems, which have become classic romances. The first, full of male grateful generosity towards the departed beloved woman, belongs, of course, to Pushkin - “I loved you: love is still, perhaps.” But the second was written at the end of his life by a little gray-haired old man with sharp, attentive eyes - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev: “I met you - and everything is the same” (1870). Instead of the title there are the mysterious letters “K.B.” The author, hiding the name of the addressee and his youthful love, deliberately rearranged the initials - “Krüdener Baroness”. Yes, the same one who once brought Tyutchev’s poems to Pushkin from Germany. The portrait of this lovely girl is still on display today in the country palace of the Bavarian electors and kings of Nymphenburg near Munich, where the whole hall is filled with images of the famous beauties of the enlightened era of the good king-poet Ludwig I.
Amalia von Lerchenfeld, married to Baroness Krüdener, the illegitimate daughter of the Prussian king, the sister of the Russian queen and a famous European beauty, flashed three times in Tyutchev’s life: as a young carefree creature who captivated him in Munich, as a majestic and very influential socialite in St. Petersburg (she was courted by Emperor Nicholas I, Benckendorff and Pushkin) and as one of the unexpected and last visitors of the dying poet, who received a farewell kiss from her with amazement and gratitude. But the whole point is that the mysterious beauty Amalia and their Long story acquaintances no longer have anything to do with Tyutchev’s lyrical masterpiece. They simply aren't there.
Here high poetry has long been separated from concrete biography and academic notes and expressed the feelings of many people. Moreover, it still helps to penetrate into the depth and power of the first departed love. This is the most personal, reverent, unforgettable feeling, and from it a lyrical masterpiece is born. Tyutchev meets Amalia, but writes not about her, but about himself (what a difference from Pushkin’s generous wish!), about the joyful wave of young memories that this unexpected meeting gave birth to in his exhausted, tired soul. Batyushkov was right: the memory of the heart is strongest, and Tyutchev himself unexpectedly used the image of first love in a poem on Pushkin’s death:
You are like my first love,
The heart will not forget Russia!..
His poem “I Met You - and Everything Past” is a loving memory great power, subtle penetration into the power of a former feeling, a movement towards her, former and forever young, of a suddenly reviving, warming heart, the subtlest spirituality, some kind of breath of golden youth, gentle strong sounds lives that turn autumn into spring and restore youth. The very movement of poetic thought is remarkable - to the expanded comparison “how ... so” hidden in the middle of the verse, where the image of a slowly fading, but still rich autumn of life is created. Love - life-giving force, bringing back youth for a moment. The sound recording of the verse and the word is magical, it turns into quiet melodious music, the composer (Varlamov or I.S. Kozlovsky?) All that remains is to capture it in the notes. Tyutchev wrote the words and music of the great Russian romance about the unexpectedly returning spring of love, which, as Turgenev accurately said, is not destined to die...
Original title of the poem:
Fyodor Tyutchev - K.B.
I met you - and everything is gone
In the obsolete heart came to life;
I remembered the golden time -
And my heart felt so warm...
How late autumn sometimes
There are days, there are times,
When suddenly it starts to feel like spring
And something will stir within us, -
So, all covered in a breeze
Those years of spiritual fullness,
With a long-forgotten rapture
I look at the cute features...
Like after a century of separation,
I look at you as if in a dream, -
And now the sounds became louder,
Not silent in me...
There is more than one memory here,
Here life spoke again, -
And you have the same charm,
And that love is in my soul!..
Analysis of the poem “I met you - and all the past” by Tyutchev
Due to its creative nature Tyutchev was a very amorous person. He was married twice and had several children. During his second marriage, the poet had a passionate, long-term affair with his young mistress. Perhaps that is why fate punished the poet: his first wife and mistress died in early age. Already in old age, Tyutchev met his first youthful love - Baroness Amalia Krudener (nee Lerchenfeld). Once upon a time, a young poet was passionately in love with a girl and was ready to throw in his lot with her. But Amalia’s parents resolutely opposed the marriage and gave their daughter in marriage to another man. Meeting with the girl to whom Tyutchev dedicated his first literary experiments, made a great impression on him. Under the influence of surging feelings, he wrote the poem “I Met You...” (1870).
The heart of the elderly poet, having experienced the bitterness of loss and disappointment, would seem to have already lost the ability to have strong feelings. But the flood of memories produced a miracle. Tyutchev compares his condition with the rare days of golden autumn, when a feeling of spring briefly appears in nature.
The poet admits that the former feeling of love never died in him. It was forgotten under the influence of new strong impressions, but continued to live deep in the soul. “Lovely features” awakened a dormant passion. Memories of the “golden time” brought great joy to the poet. It was as if he had been reborn and freed from the burden of past years.
The author no longer feels regret about the unsuccessful youth novel. At the end of his days, he again felt like the same young man experiencing great passion. He is eternally grateful to Amalia for the meeting, which he considers priceless gift fate, which thanked him for all the troubles and failures he suffered.
The poet does not give specific description to his former lover. Of course, the years have taken their toll. Life experience taught the poet to appreciate not physical, but spiritual and moral beauty.
The poem is an example of pure love lyrics. Expressive means emphasize the feeling of bright joy. The author uses epithets (“golden”, “spiritual”, “sweet”), personifications (“the past... has come to life”, “life has spoken”). The poetic comparison of old age with autumn and awakened feelings with spring is successfully used.
The work “I Met You...” has become a very popular romance, which is widely known in our time.
Tyutchev's poem "I Met You" - one of the most enchanting in Russian poetry. It was written on July 26, 1870 in Carlsbad. At the beginning of the poem there was a title-dedication to “K.B.”:
- Clotilde lived near Carlsbad and could have met Tyutchev by chance;
- she had recently buried her husband, and Theodor could well have perceived her as Clotilde von Bothmer. That is, "K.B." – her initials;
- resort guest bulletins and 1870 correspondence show that Amalia Adlerberg was not in Carlsbad in the summer of 1870;
- It is doubtful that Tyutchev used the title and surname of Amalia’s former husband in the title of the poem when she was married to Count Adlerberg. Moreover, in such a situation he would not give a key to identifying the addressee at all;
- a reference to Polonsky’s oral testimony about the deciphering of “K.B.” as “Crudener, Baroness” was published in 1913 when the poet’s poems were published by P. Bykov. Polonsky, in general, had no reason to be frank with a publisher he was unfamiliar with.
If this opinion had been expressed earlier, then perhaps it would now have been generally accepted and not in doubt. But it appeared recently, and literary scholars are still in search of the truth. Until the choice is made, we can touch on another wonderful legend.
I don’t want to change traditions, so for now it’s better to say that perhaps this masterpiece is addressed to Amalia Krüdener, and perhaps also to Clotilde von Bothmer. Tyutchev had a lot of connections in his life with both women, and he could have written these lines with either of them.
“I Met You” – romance... elegy...
There were several versions of music for the poem “I met you - and everything that was”: S.I. Donaurov (1871), L.D. Malashkin (1881), V.S. Sheremetev (1898). A version performed by I.S. has reached us. Kozlovsky (1900-1993). The wording is a little strange and requires clarification. The fact is that I.S. Kozlovsky heard a romance performed by Moscow Art Theater artist I.M. Moskvina (1874-1946). Since there were no notes at hand, Kozlovsky reconstructed them from memory. For a long time it was believed that the author of the music was unknown, and only recently were the notes of the romance by L.D. discovered. Malashkina (1842-1902) “I Met You”, published in Moscow in 1881.
The story of the romance “I Met You” I met you, and everything of the past came to life in an obsolete heart: I remembered the golden time - And my heart became so warm. These lines belong to the poet Fyodor Tyutchev, and they are dedicated to Amalia Lerchenfeld. A young diplomat, Fyodor Tyutchev, arrived at the Russian mission in Munich. He is 18 years old. He managed to graduate from Moscow University in two years. At one of the social events, Tyutchev meets the charming Amalia Lerchenfeld, the illegitimate daughter of the Prussian king Frederick William III. Amalia amazed Tyutchev with her beauty, education, and depth of feelings. Tyutchev is bewitched and enchanted. However, in 1826 he marries Eleanor Peterson, and Amalia becomes the wife of the first secretary of the Russian embassy in Munich, Baron Krudener. Years passed. Baroness Krudener shines at St. Petersburg balls, Tyutchev continues his diplomatic career. Living far from the Russian capital, in letters to friends he always asks about Mrs. Krudener. He worries: is she as happy as she deserves? In 1836, Tyutchev conveyed through her the manuscript of his poems, to which the author himself did not attach high importance. But these poems delighted Pushkin himself and were published in Pushkin’s Sovremennik. And among them are poems dedicated to Amalia: I remember the golden time, I remember the dear land to my heart, The day was getting dark, we were two, Below in the shadows the Danube was rustling... After the death of his first wife, Tyutchev married for the second time. He is already the father of a large family. Love has always been a “fatal duel” for Tyutchev. He was 47 when his love evoked a reciprocal and strong feeling from a very young girl, Elena Deniseva. She sacrificed everything for the sake of her beloved: not only did the “world” turn away from her, her own father turned away from her. In this tragic union, not recognized by either people or the church, Denisyeva bore him three children. This painful love lasted 14 years, until the death of Deniseva, who went to her grave from consumption. Tyutchev wrote: Oh, how murderously we love! As in our violent blindness, We most certainly destroy What is dear to our hearts!... Tyutchev is 67, he goes for treatment to boring Carlsbad and suddenly - a new meeting with Amalia. It would seem that two old people met - everything has passed, everything is in the past, but... I met you - and everything of the past came to life in an obsolete heart; I remembered the golden time - And my heart felt so warm... ...Many composers wrote music for these poems. But we have heard the melody that Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky gave us - he arranged and recorded this romance. For a long time it was believed that the author of this music was unknown, but sheet music was found - a collection of works by L. D. Malashkin, familiar to us from the romance “Oh, if I could express it in sound...”. Ivan Kozlovsky sings a melody similar to the one that Malashkin wrote for the poem “I Met You,” which almost became a folk melody. ...There are two most famous Russian love poems that have become classic romances. The first, full of male grateful generosity towards the departed beloved woman, belongs, of course, to Pushkin - “I loved you: love is still, perhaps.” But the second was written at the end of his life by a little gray-haired old man with sharp, attentive eyes - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev: “I met you - and everything is the same” (1870). Instead of the title there are the mysterious letters “K.B.” The author, hiding the name of the addressee and his youthful love, deliberately rearranged the initials - “Krudener Baroness”. Yes, the same one who once brought Tyutchev’s poems to Pushkin from Germany. The portrait of this lovely girl is still on display today in the country palace of the Bavarian electors and kings of Nymphenburg near Munich, where the whole hall is filled with images of the famous beauties of the enlightened era of the good king-poet Ludwig I. Amalia von Lerchenfeld, married Baroness Krüdener, the illegitimate daughter of the Prussian king, the sister of the Russian queen and European famous beauty, flashed three times in Tyutchev’s life: as a young carefree creature who captivated him in Munich, as a majestic and very influential socialite in St. Petersburg (she was courted by Emperor Nicholas I, Benckendorff and Pushkin) and as one of the unexpected and last visitors the dying poet, who accepted her farewell kiss with amazement and gratitude. But the whole point is that the mysterious beauty Amalia and their long history of acquaintance no longer have anything to do with Tyutchev’s lyrical masterpiece. They simply aren't there. Here high poetry has long been separated from concrete biography and academic notes and expressed the feelings of many people. Moreover, it still helps to penetrate into the depth and power of the first departed love. This is the most personal, reverent, unforgettable feeling, and from it a lyrical masterpiece is born. Tyutchev meets Amalia, but writes not about her, but about himself (what a difference from Pushkin’s generous wishes!), about the joyful wave of young memories that this unexpected meeting gave rise to in his exhausted, tired soul. Batyushkov was right: the memory of the heart is stronger than anything else, and Tyutchev himself unexpectedly used the image of first love in a poem on Pushkin’s death: Well, like the first love, Russia’s heart will not forget!.. His poem “I met you - and all the past” is a love poem recollection of great power, subtle penetration into the power of a former feeling, movement towards it, former and eternally young, of a suddenly reviving, warming heart, the subtlest spirituality, some breath of golden youth, gentle strong sounds of life, turning autumn into spring and restoring youth. The very movement of poetic thought is remarkable - to the expanded comparison “how ... so” hidden in the middle of the verse, where the image of a slowly fading, but still rich autumn of life is created. Love is a life-giving force that brings back youth for a moment. The sound recording of the verse and the word is magical, it turns into quiet melodious music, the composer (Varlamov or I.S. Kozlovsky?) All that remains is to capture it in the notes. Tyutchev wrote the words and music of the great Russian romance about the unexpectedly returning spring of love, which, as Turgenev accurately said, is not destined to die...
...There are two most famous Russian love poems that have become classic romances. The first, full of male grateful generosity towards the departed beloved woman, belongs, of course, to Pushkin - “I loved you: love is still, perhaps.” But the second was written at the end of his life by a little gray-haired old man with sharp, attentive eyes - Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev: “I met you - and everything is the same” (1870). Instead of the title there are the mysterious letters “K.B.”
I met you - and everything is gone
In the obsolete heart came to life;
I remembered the golden time -
And my heart felt so warm...
Like late autumn sometimes
There are days, there are times,
When suddenly it starts to feel like spring
And something will stir within us, -
So, all covered in perfume
Those years of spiritual fullness,
With a long-forgotten rapture
I look at the cute features...
Like after a century of separation,
I look at you as if in a dream, -
And now the sounds became louder,
Not silent in me...
There is more than one memory here,
Here life spoke again, -
And we have the same charm,
And that love is in my soul!..
The poem “I Met You” was written on the same day, July 26 (August 7), 1870, and is dedicated to “K.B.” and was published that same year in the December issue of Zarya magazine. Until recently, no one disputed that behind the dedication of “K.B.” hiding: “Krüdener, Baroness.”
Amalie, Freiin von Kruedener. Joseph Karl Stieler.
Amalia von Lerchenfeld, married to Baroness Krüdener, the illegitimate daughter of the Prussian king, the sister of the Russian queen and a famous European beauty, flashed three times in Tyutchev’s life: as a young carefree creature who captivated him in Munich, as a majestic and very influential society lady in St. Petersburg (she was courted Emperor Nicholas I, Benckendorff and Pushkin) and as one of the unexpected and last visitors of the dying poet, who received a farewell kiss from her with amazement and gratitude.
City Hall in Munich. Engraving by K. Gerstner based on a drawing by J. Hoffmeister. Munich. 1840.
Back in 1823, when Fyodor Tyutchev met Amalia (1808-1888), she had just received the right to be called Countess Lerchenfeld. Fifteen-year-old Amelie was so charming, and nineteen-year-old Theodore was so helpful and sweet, that a reverent love quickly arose between them. However, the lovers were not destined to connect their lives. In the fall of 1824, Theodore proposed to Amelie. The sixteen-year-old countess agreed, but... Amalia came from an old and rich family. Her mother was Princess Therese of Thurn und Taxis (1773-1839) - sister of the Prussian Queen Louise. Father - Count Maximilian Lerchenfeld (1772-1809). The father died when his daughter was only one year old, and since the child was illegitimate, at the request of the father, the baby was raised as an adopted daughter by the wife of Count Lerchenfeld. Some argue that Amalia's father was, in fact, Prussian king Frederick William III. This explains the strangeness of the story.
Queen Louise had a daughter, Charlotte, who became the wife of Nicholas I, and received the name Alexandra Feodorovna. Thus, Amalia was a cousin, and perhaps even a sister, of the Russian Empress. Naturally, for Amalia’s relatives, the young freelance mission employee, who was also untitled and not rich, was not an attractive match. Tyutchev was refused. On November 23, 1824, he writes a poem beginning with the words:
Your sweet gaze innocent passion full,
Golden dawn of your heavenly feelings
I couldn’t, alas! appease them -
He serves them as a silent reproach.
In 1825, Amalia became the wife of his colleague Baron Alexander Sergeevich Krudener (1786-1852). Alexander Sergeevich was distinguished by a difficult character, on his part it was a marriage of convenience, and besides, he was twenty-two years older than his wife. In 1826, Tyutchev married Eleanor Peterson. The Krüdener and Tyutchev families lived in Munich not far from each other. They maintained a close relationship and met often.
Eleanor, Countess Bothmer (1800-1838), in her first marriage, Peterson, the first wife of the poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev.
One of the meetings took place in the vicinity of the ancestral castle of Amalia Donaustauf, the ruins of which stood on a hill on the banks of the Danube. The meeting reminded him of the time when he and sixteen-year-old Amelie, then still Lerchenfeld, wandered around the ruins of the castle. Impressed, Tyutchev wrote “one of the freshest and most delightful poems”:
I remember the golden time
I remember the dear land to my heart.
The day was getting dark; there were two of us;
Below, in the shadows, the Danube roared...
The poem, written in the mid-1830s, was well known to Amalia, like many poems of the so-called “Munich cycle”. In 1836, Baron Krudener received an appointment to St. Petersburg, and Tyutchev asked Amelia to convey the poems to his friend Prince I.S. Gagarin, who passed them on to Pushkin. Twenty-four poems signed “F.T.” were published in two issues of Sovremennik.
Donaustauf
In 1855, Baroness Krüdener married Count Nikolai Vladimirovich Adlerberg (1819-1892). The last meeting of Tyutchev and Amalia took place in March 1873, when the love of his youth appeared at the bed where the paralyzed poet lay. Tyutchev's face brightened, tears appeared in his eyes. He looked at her for a long time, without uttering a word out of excitement...
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev.
Tyutchev wrote one of his most charming poems, “I Met You,” in Carlsbad in July 1870, after a sudden meeting and walk with... according to tradition, it is believed that with Amalia Adlerberg. It is stated that:
. dedication to "K.B." should be deciphered as "Krudener, Baroness". In this case, they refer to the testimony of Ya.P. Polonsky (1819-1898), to whom Tyutchev himself named the addressee;
. in the poems “I met you - and all the past...” and “I remember the golden time...” the same “golden time” is mentioned.
But the whole point is that the mysterious beauty Amalia and their long history of acquaintance no longer have anything to do with Tyutchev’s lyrical masterpiece. They simply aren't there.
Lake Tegernsee and its surroundings near Munich are places well known to Tyutchev.
In the second issue of the Neva magazine for 1988, an article by A.A. Nikolaev “The Riddle of K.B.” appeared, in which it was stated that Tyutchev’s poems were not written by Amalia Krudener. If only because in the summer of 1870, Amalia Krüdener was not in Karlsbad or near it: as the head of the Karlsbad regional archive, Jarmila Valahova, reported, in police reports and bulletins of resort guests for summer months 1870, the name of Amalia Adlerberg (in her first marriage - Krudener, in her maiden name - Lerchenfeld) does not appear. And the poems were written there. Amalia, judging by family correspondence, was at that time either in St. Petersburg, or in its environs, or on her Russian estates.
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev.
Given the impulsive nature creative process Tyutchev, it is difficult to imagine that this poem was born long after the event that caused it.” A.A. himself Nikolaev believes that behind these letters Tyutchev hid the initials of Clotilde Botmer (married Maltits), the sister of Tyutchev’s first wife Eleanor Botmer. The researcher also provided a number of evidence in favor of his version, the main one of which is that the poet could have met with Clotilda between July 21 and 26, 1870 in one of the cities not far from Carlsbad, and therefore “she is the most likely addressee of the poem “I Met You.” Only to her could Tyutchev turn the lines:
There is more than one memory here,
Here life spoke again..."
Countess Clotilde von Bothmer was born on April 22, 1809 in Munich. She was the eighth child in the Bothmer family. The rapprochement of 22-year-old Tyutchev with 17-year-old Countess Clotilde took place in the spring of 1826 after Fyodor Ivanovich returned from Russia, where he was on a long vacation (almost a year). Tyutchev's colleague, secretary of the Russian mission, Baron Apollonius von Maltitz (1795-1870) wooed Clotilde. Maltitz was 14 years older than Clotilde. Clotilde did not accept Maltitz's proposals for a long time. And only with the appearance of Ernestina Dörnberg (née Pfeffel, with whom, apparently, he had a relationship while still married to Eleanor) in Fyodor’s life, Clotilde’s hope of starting a family with Tyutchev disappeared. At the end of March 1838, her engagement to Maltitz took place.
Ernestine von Dörnberg, nee von Pfeffel, is the second wife of F.I. Tyutchev.
The Maltese moved to Weimar, where in May 1841 Apollonius was appointed charge d'affaires of Russia. Tyutchev corresponded with them and at first visited them quite often, and then less and less. After Tyutchev’s meeting with Clotilde in Weimar on July 7, 1847, they separated for a long time. Research by Moscow literary critic Alexander Nikolaev has established that Fyodor Ivanovich and Clotilde could have met between July 21 and 26. Fyodor Ivanovich’s meeting at the famous resort with one of the possible candidates for the addressee of the poem “K.B.” undoubtedly happened by accident.
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. Portrait by S. Alexandrovsky (1876).
The version of the unintentionality of this event is supported by Tyutchev’s desire to see a completely different woman here, for the sake of a date with whom he was ready to go even along an unplanned route to the city of Ems. Let's read his letter from Berlin dated July 7/13, 1870: “Where are you, and if you are still in Ems, what are you doing in the midst of this terrible confusion that is beginning? If I knew for sure that you were in Ems, I could not resist the temptation to go looking for you there... "There is no secret: the letter is addressed to 44-year-old Alexandra Vasilyevna Pletneva, the widow of Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnev (1792-1865), editor post-Pushkin "Contemporary". There was no luck, Fyodor Ivanovich did not wait for Alexandra Vasilievna in Carlsbad... He will see her later, already in St. Petersburg.
It can be assumed that if Tyutchev had nevertheless met Alexandra Vasilievna in Ems or Carlsbad, then Russia, most likely, would have been left without the outstanding masterpiece “K.B.” And yet, if you remember what Tyutchev wrote in his letters about Krudener, you somehow don’t want to rush and “leave” her away from these lines. So the riddle “K. B." remains...
Memorial plaque Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev in Munich at Herzogspitalstrasse 12. Opened on July 3, 1999
S. Donaurov was the first to write music based on Tyutchev’s poems. Then these poems were set to music by A. Spiro and Y. Shaporin. But none of them is the author of the now extremely popular version of the romance “I Met You,” which was sung by Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky. Kozlovsky heard the melody of this version from the wonderful Moscow Art Theater actor I.M. Moskvina himself arranged the tune. Until recently, records were released with a recording of a romance performed by Kozlovsky, and the labels read: “The author of the music is unknown.” But thanks to the research of musicologist G. Pavlova, it was possible to prove that the composer who wrote the music very close to what Kozlovsky sings is Leonid Dmitrievich Malashkin.
The musicologist’s guess was confirmed: several years ago, the sheet music of Malashkin’s romance “I Met You,” published in Moscow in 1881 in a circulation of no more than 300 copies, was found in the music repositories of Leningrad and Moscow. It’s no wonder that this tiny edition not only sold out instantly, but also a whole century(century!) lost, disappeared in the ocean of music publications. And along with the notes, the name of the composer also sank into oblivion. Note, however, that Malashkin’s music is close to the edition of I.S. Kozlovsky, but not absolutely similar to her.