Yury Tynyanov

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Yury Tynyanov

Writing October 18, 1894

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 Rus…

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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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  1. 1983
    Saša

    Movie Book

  2. 1969
  3. 1963
    Kyukhlya

    Movie Novel

  4. 1934
    Lieutenant Kijé

    Movie Writer

  5. 1928
    Asya

    Movie Writer

  6. 1927
    The Club of the Big Deed

    Movie Writer

  7. 1926
    The Overcoat

    Movie Writer