Yury Tynyanov

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (1894–1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school. In 1928 he wrote, together with linguist Roman Jakobson, an influential work titled 'Theses on Language', as well as works of historical fiction, such as 'Lieutenant Kijé' and one of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, 'The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar'.

Other name:

Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов,

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov,

Yuri Tynyanov,

Ю. Тынянов

Gender:

Male

Birthday:

Oct 18, 1894

Deathday:

20 thg 12, 1943

Place of birth:

Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]