Short answers, pulled from the story.
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev entered the world in 1803 at the Ovstug family estate near Bryansk. His father Ivan Nikolaevich Tyutchev served as a court councillor within the Kremlin Expedition managing all building and restoration works for Moscow palaces.
His mother Countess Ekaterina Lvovna Tolstaya belonged to the Tolstoy family on her father's side and the Rimsky-Korsakov noble house on her mother's side. Russian war general Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov was her uncle.
He took up a post as trainee diplomat at the Russian legation and remained abroad for twenty-two years total. In Munich he fell in love with Amalie von Lerchenfeld whose relationship produced poems like Tears or Slyozy which coincides with one of their meetings.
This relationship produced a body of lyrics rightly considered among the finest love poems in the Russian language. Permeated with a sublime feeling of subdued despair the so-called Denisyeva Cycle has been described by critics as a novel in verse or a human document shattering in the force of its emotion.
He died in Tsarskoye Selo in 1873 and was interred at Novodevichy Monastery in St Petersburg. Ernestine survived him by twenty-one years after his passing.