Author: Yurii Tynyanov
Born: 18 October 1894
Died: 20 December 1943
Bio: Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov (Russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Тыня́нов) 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.