When Nekrasov became editor of the “Sovremennik” journal, he managed to invite the most talented writers, playwrights and critics: Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Ostrovsky, Nikolai Dobrolyubov and Ivan Goncharov. He also paid attention to Fyodor Tyutchev. In 1850, Nekrasov published the article “Russian Secondary Poets” in the first book of the “Sovremennik” journal. Most of it was devoted to “Poems Sent from Germany”, published in the journal in 1836 under the initials “F.T.” Their author was Fyodor Tyutchev. Nekrasov attributed these poems to the “few brilliant” phenomena in the field of Russian poetry. 

 
In 1854, more than a hundred of Tyutchev’s poems were published first in the supplement to the March issue of ‘Sovremennik’, and later in the May issue. ‘The love for nature, the sympathy for it, complete understanding and the ability to masterfully feature its diverse phenomena — these are the main characteristics of Mr. Fyodor Tyutchev”s talent, ’ wrote Nekrasov. Together with Ivan Turgenev, they put a lot of effort into publishing the first book of Tyutchev’s poems.

 
Nekrasov considered Tyutchev’s poems equal to the best works of Russian poetry. ‘Of course, the most difficult kind of poetry is landscapes in verse, a picture created by two or three lines, ’ he wrote. ‘It is a matter of the greatest difficulty to grasp precisely those features through which a certain picture can arise in the reader”s mind and emerge on its own. Mr. Fyodor Tyutchev is a master of this art.’ He also noted, ‘Tyutchev’s poems are written in a pure and beautiful Russian language and bear an imprint of the Russian mind, the Russian soul.’