Yury Tynyanov
(1894-1943)
A philologist and writer. He lived in St. Petersburg — Petrograd — Leningrad interruptedly between 1912 and 1941, evacuated soon after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petrograd University with a major in the Slavic and Russian languages in 1919. He participated in S. A. Vengerov's Pushkin Seminars. He was a member of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language. He worked at the State Institute of Arts History in 1920-30 and collaborated with B. M. Eichenbaum to establish home seminars for students with B. Y. Buchstab, L. Y. Ginzburg, and other future literary critics among their listeners. He delivered lectures and reports in the House of Arts, House of Literati, Institute of the Living Word, etc. He was the science editor of the Poet's Library, a series of books, from 1931. His works on literature history and theory such as Archaists and Innovators of 1929 had a remarkable effect on the development of the Russian and European philology and are among the greatest achievements of Russian formalism. In his historical prose such as Kyukhlya of 1925, Sublieutenant Kizhe of 1928, Wax Person of 1931, and Young Vitushishnikov of 1933, Tynyanov carried on his scientific research in an original manner depicting bright images of St. Petersburg of various ages. He also wrote works on cinema theory and a number of film scripts. He lived at 8/15 Grechesky Avenue (memorial plaque) in 1919-36, 10/8 Plekhanova Street (today, Kazanskaya Street) from 1936, and in the House of Creation at 6 Proletarskaya Street (today, Tserkovnaya Street), Pushkin Town, in 1940 and 1941.
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