Yury Tynyanov

  • Known for: Writer
  • Date of birth: 1894. October 18.
  • Place of birth: Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]

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 ...

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