Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943) was an influential literary historian, critic, translator, and theoretician of the cinema. He was a leading member of the formalist school of literary theory before achieving renown as a writer of historical fiction. His works include two other literary biographical novels, on Pushkin and Küchelbecker, as well as several shorter works of historical fiction.
Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush previously translated Tynyanov’s Young Pushkin: A Novel (2007).