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Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s.
Ilya Ilf, pseudonym of Iehiel-Leyb (Ilya) Arnoldovich Faynzilberg was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov.
The two friends, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, were born in Odessa, the humor capital of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). This southern city on the Black Sea has arguably been, and still is,...
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg (Russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev or Katayev (Russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев), 1903–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s.
Apr 30, 2024 · Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev, 1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as " Ilf and Petrov ".
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair.
Ilf and Petrov, Soviet humorists active at the end of the 1920s and in the ’30s. The intimate literary collaboration of Ilya Ilf (pseudonym of Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg; b. Oct. 3 [Oct. 15, New Style], 1897, Odessa, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]—d.
