Alexander Poznansky

Alexander Poznansky (born 1950) is a Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Born in 1950 at Vyborg. In 1968 he relocated to Leningrad.

Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at Yale University. He is perhaps best known for his 1991 book: Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, published by Schirmer/Macmillan.

Books

 * Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, 1991.
 * Tchaikovsky's Last Days: A Documentary Study, 1996
 * Tchaikovsky Through Others' Eyes, 1999
 * The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music: Catalogue of Letters, Genealogy, Bibliography, 2002