Yury Tynyanov

Known for: Writing

Born: 1894-10-18

Died: 1943-12-20

Place of birth: Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]

Biography

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'.

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