This publication contains fundamental works on the theory and history of literature of the outstanding Russian philologist of the twentieth century, researcher and theorist of literature, cinema and other visual arts, one of the founders and brightest followers of the "formal method" in literary criticism, the talented prose writer Yuri Nikolayevich Tynyanov (1894-1943). The book will certainly become a reliable assistant not only to a specialist philologist, but also to every reader striving to comprehend Russian classics and master the latest literature and art.