Andrey Donatovich Sinyavsky (literary pseudonym - Abram Tertz; October 8, 1925, Moscow - February 25, 1997, Paris) - Russian literary critic, writer, literary critic, political prisoner. Sinyavsky is the author of literary works on the works of M. Gorky, B. Pasternak, I. Babel, A. Akhmatova. Since 1955 he began to write prose works.