Двенадцать стульев
by Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петрович Петров
1961FictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)FicitonDescription and travelLost articles
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"Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely heroes from the provinces to Moscow to the wilds of Soviet Georgia and the Trans-caucasus mountains; on their quest they encounter a wide variety of characters: from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and ineffective than the one before."--BOOK JACKET.
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FictionContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)FicitonDescription and travelLost articlesRussian fiction
First published 1961Characters & people
Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf (1897-1937)
Setting
Soviet Union20th century1917-19701917-1936
About the authors
Илья Арнольдович Ильф
15 Oct 1897 – 13 Apr 1937
Евгений Петрович Петров
13 December 1903 – 2 July 1942
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