Alexander Poznansky

{{short description|American historian}}

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.{{cite web|title=ПОЗНАНСКИЙ АЛЕКСАНДР НИКОЛАЕВИЧ|publisher=Molodaya Gvardiya|url=http://gvardiya.ru/publishing/authors/poznanskij_an|language=ru}}

Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at Yale University.{{cite web|title=Alexander Poznansky|url=http://web.library.yale.edu/user/2724|website=Yale University Library|accessdate=10 January 2018}} He is perhaps best known for his 1991 book: Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, published by Schirmer/Macmillan.{{cite news|last1=Griffiths|first1=Paul|title=Outing Peter Ilyich|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/05/books/outing-peter-ilyich.html|website=The New York Times|date=5 January 1992|accessdate=10 January 2018}}{{cite web|title=Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man review|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-02-871885-9|website=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=10 January 2018}}{{cite web|title=Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man review|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alexander-poznansky-3/tchaikovsky-the-quest-for-the-inner-man/|website=Kirkus Reviews|accessdate=10 January 2018}}