As Writer
Lieutenant Kizhe
1934
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Yury Tynyanov
Writing
Birth Date
October 18, 1894
Place of Birth
Rezhitsa, Russian Empire [now Rēzekne, Latvia]
Date of Death
December 20, 1943
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'.
