Yury Tynyanov
An image from Lieutenant Kizhe, one of the productions that also features Yury Tynyanov.
Yury Tynyanov

Yury Tynyanov

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 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'.

The Overcoat

The Overcoat

1926

The Club of the Big Deed

The Club of the Big Deed

1927

Lieutenant Kizhe

Lieutenant Kizhe

1934

Saša

1983