Yury Tynyanov

Yury Tynyanov
Native name
Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов
BornYury Nasonovich Tynyanov
(1894-10-18)October 18, 1894
Rezhitsa, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 20, 1943(1943-12-20) (aged 49)
Moscow, USSR
Resting placeVagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
OccupationWriter, screenwriter, translator, literary critic, scholar
LanguageRussian
Alma materPetrograd State University
Years active1921 - 1943
Notable worksLieutenant Kijé
Spouse
Leah Abelevna Zilber
(m. 1916)
Children1

Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ tɨˈnʲænəf]; October 18, 1894 – December 20, 1943) was a Soviet writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter.[1] He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.

Born in a Jewish community in the Russian Empire in modern-day Latvia, he moved to Saint Petersburg where he completed his education. During the 1920s in the Soviet Union, he published numerous novels, works, and movie scripts, as well as working as a translator. However, his health declined during the 1930s and he died in 1943 from multiple sclerosis.

  1. ^ H.T.S. (December 10, 1934). "Czar Paul on Screen Again". The New York Times.