Christianity and Romanticism in Tjutčev's “Pevučest' Est' v Morskich Volnach” 1

In this article, the author examines the interplay of sources and structure in “Pevuchest' est' v morskikh volnakh”, using this analysis as a starting point for a broader inquiry into Tiutchev's attempts to reconcile Romantic and Christian worldviews in his poetry. In addition, the author demonstrates the arbitrariness of editors' continuing decisions to print the poem without its fourth stanza, setting patterns of autographs, copies and publications of this and contemporaneous poems, as well as relationships of various actors in the text's history, into biographical context. The author thus demonstrates that it has been editors' taste, not the author's presumptive final will, which has determined and ultimately distorted the shape of the poem.