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05.03.2020

– Ilya, what do you think, should we let Bender live?
- Yes of course. But it's better to kill. Or leave him alive.
– Or kill? Or leave him alive?
- Yes. Leave him alive. Or kill.
– Zhenya, you are a dog optimist. Zhenya, don’t cling to this line so much. Cross it out.
- I'm not sure…
- Lord, it’s so simple! (snatches the pen from his hands and crosses out the word)
- You see! And you suffered.

This is exactly how the work on each fragment of the book progressed. Any of them caused controversy until they were hoarse, apparently, which is why until now both “The Golden Calf” and “12 Chairs” are successful. Because every word is weighed and thought out. Here is what Petrov wrote about this:

A terrible quarrel in the evening in the town of Gallop. They screamed for two hours. They reviled each other the most scary words, which only exist in the world. Then they started laughing and admitted to each other that they were thinking the same thing - after all, we shouldn’t quarrel, it’s nonsense. After all, we can’t break up—the writer will die—and since we still can’t break up, then there’s no point in quarreling.

Although, speaking objectively, “IlfPetrov” has disappeared from the reader’s diet. There are many reasons, one of them is that the older generation knows novels by heart. And few people like to reread what they already know. That's why no one rereads Crime and Punishment along with Eugene Onegin. Well, on the other hand, the novel was very far removed from the realities of that time. Although, having read this masterpiece at the age of 14, immediately after receiving my passport, I was impressed primarily by the humor, cautious cynicism and all this timid charm of the Russian-Jewish tandem.

By the way, about the author. Compiling an autobiography of the author of “The Twelve Chairs” is quite difficult. The fact is that the author was born twice: in 1897 and in 1903. The first time - under the guise of Ilya Ilf, and the second - Evgeny Petrov. Although let’s say it straight out: under the guise of Ilya Arnoldovich Faizilberg and Evgeny Petrovich Kataev. Both were residents of Odessa, both wrote feuilletons for “Crocodile” and “Pravda”, both had an incredibly sharp mind and style, and... this, perhaps, is where the similarity between the two personalities within one great author ends.

For example, the senior comrade, Faizilberg, comes from that wonderful people, shrouded in myths, tales and stereotypes, who, in fact, created that mythical and witty glory of the original Odessa. A calm, quiet talent, or, as they say “here in Odessa,” potz, might not have connected his life with authorship, but would have continued to work in a drawing office, or at a telephone exchange, or at a military plant. But he began to directly stain the paper in Odessa newspapers, where, thanks to his innate wit and observation, he wrote materials of a humorous and satirical nature - mainly feuilletons. His end was sad, but the dawn of his career was incredibly joyful. Just like the heroes he created: Panikovsky, Bender and those others whose names have become household names. A tragic end also befell his equally talented brothers. One of them is Srul (no need to laugh at foreign names, this is indecent) - became a world-famous photographer and cubist artist, delighting the capricious public with his works. But, alas, the pseudonym of Sandro Fasini did not hide his origin, for which he was killed in Auschwitz. Another brother, Soviet graphic artist and photographer Mikhail (aka Moishe), died during the evacuation in Tashkent. Only the modest Benjamin remained, continuing the glorious talented family.

By the way, the surname is an abbreviation of his Jewish name. Perhaps it will seem to some stunted mind that the author mentioned the word “Jewish” too much. But firstly, you can’t erase the words from the song, and secondly, is there anything bad in this? There is much more Jewish in the novel itself than it might seem.

But Evgeny Kataev was younger, but lived a more interesting life, although he took risks at every step. His first literary work there was a protocol for examining the corpse of an unknown man. This is all because Petrov worked for 3 years in the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department, where one very serious incident happened. strange story. Zhenya Kataev had one old friend - Sasha Kozachinsky. An ordinary daredevil, a daring fellow with great ambitions. Go to Odessa and ask who Kozachinsky was before the revolution. He was a simple noble criminal investigation officer and continued to look for himself in life. And then our Sasha became a simple noble bandit. They did a great job, but the trouble was, they were caught by the valiant security officers led by Kataev. Kozachinsky surrendered to his friend, and for good reason. An old Odessa trick: please the person, especially if he works for the authorities. So Kataev, already in Moscow, placed his lost friend in the “buzzer”, and then forced him, already a leading venerable journalist, to write the story “Green Van”, telling about their Odessa affairs. Surely you watched old movie with Kharatyan, filmed according to this script.

After so many adventures, the disparate units finally managed to meet in Moscow in 1923. The two talented paper scribblers quickly became friends and discovered a similar range of interests and a desire to work with each other. They wrote feuilletons in collaboration. Why not encroach on large forms? Moreover, Petrov... By the way, the reader will probably ask, why Petrov if he is Kataev? And everything is very simple: not only Ilf had talented brothers. So Evgeniy had a brother, Valentin, a student of Bunin, who became a venerable writer, lived a stormy life in revolutions and wrote such works as “Son of the Regiment” and “The Lonely Sail Whitens.” So Petrov thought that there could not be two Kataevs and changed his simple Russian surname to the even more outrageously Russian “Petrov”. It was brother Valentin who gave the two authors the idea of such an imperishable story as “12 Chairs.” It's very simple: the older brother, already a well-known writer by that time, decided to use his brother and his best friend as literary blacks and not at all for the “golden weights”. Like, write, and I’ll correct it. But when, after some time, Ilf and Petrov showed him the fruits of their labors, he realized that it was at least unethical to take away such a masterpiece from, as it turned out, such talented authors. And the book hooked me already with the first sentence:

IN county town There were so many hairdressing establishments and funeral processions that it seemed that the inhabitants of the city were born only to shave, cut their hair, freshen their hair with haircut and immediately die.

Although Ilf himself described his impressions of writing as follows:

We sit down to write “12 Chairs.”
Evenings in the empty Labor Palace. We had absolutely no idea what would come of our work. Sometimes I fell asleep with a pen in my hand. I woke up in horror - there were several huge crooked letters on paper in front of me. These are probably what Chekhov’s Vanka wrote when he composed a letter “to his grandfather in the village.” Ilf paced around the narrow room of the fourth lane. Sometimes we wrote to the professional department.
Will the moment really come when the manuscript will be finished and we will carry it on a sled? It will snow. What a wonderful feeling it must be - the work is finished, nothing more needs to be done.
Ostap Bender was intended to be a minor figure. We had one phrase for him - “The key to the apartment where the money is.” We heard it from one of our acquaintances, who was later identified as Iznurenkov. But Bender gradually began to push out of the framework prepared for him, acquiring everything higher value. Soon we could no longer cope with him.
The debate is about whether to kill Bender or not. Lottery. Then we felt sorry for our hero. Somehow it was a shame to revive it later in “The Golden Calf”.
When the novel was finished, we put it in a neat folder and stuck a note on the back cover: “The finder is asked to return to such and such an address.” It was fear for the work on which so much effort had been spent. After all, we put everything we knew into this first book. Generally speaking, both of us did not attach any importance to the book. literary significance, and if one of the writers we respected said that the book was bad, we probably would not even think about sending it to print.

However, critics and readers accepted the acutely social masterpieces with great love, calling the author’s style “a blow with a broadsword to the neck” (who doesn’t know, in the old days the neck was called the neck).

And away we go. The script for the film “Circus”, and then the adventures of the Great Schemer in the company of the Rogue Panikovsky and Shura Balaganov in the monumental “The Golden Calf”. The moral of all the works was such that even Krylov’s almighty fables had never seen before. Such morality was very necessary for the young Soviet state. Although these were still the most anti-Soviet books of all the anti-Soviet ones. Ilf and Petrov were journalists, and therefore all their heroes had prototypes. They collected images and stories and, thanks to their elegant style, put everything in its place, creating a filigree masterpiece of literature. Even Mayakovsky, presented in the form of the poet Lyapis-Trubetskoy, fell under their sharp style. Yes, yes, Lyapis Trubetskoy is also from here. Even in Nazi Germany they filmed the image of the Great Combinator in their own way. It’s not for nothing that the authors argued over each fragment.

However, the most anti-Soviet book by the main Soviet journalists was “One-Storey America” - a kind of diary of a trip across the United States from one region to another and back. Admired by the Ford factories and observing mass automation with some regret, they met personally with Roosevelt, talked with Russian immigrants and such significant personalities as Hemingway and Henry Ford. It is not known who aroused more interest in whom - Russian reporters from the Americans or Americans from Ilf and Petrov. Not everyone liked the essays, because there are always commentators dissatisfied with the work of writing. But everyone liked the photographs taken by Ilf. Yes, yes, he was filming before it became main... well, you get the idea. But these days, Posner was inspired to follow the path of journalists in his second homeland (the first is France).

But they didn’t care about the reviews; they had to write a third book about Ostap. Moreover, a lot of ideas are literally bursting in my head. The book promised to be better than the previous ones, but the villainous fate decreed otherwise. Back in America, Ilf noticed that he was coughing up blood. Upon his return, his tuberculosis surpassed all limits of decency. As Petrov recalled:

Trip to America. How "One-Story America" was written. Ilf's disease. Everyone convinced Ilf that he was healthy. And I convinced. And he was angry. He hated the phrase, “You look great today.” He understood and felt that it was all over.

Petrov ran every day to his fading friend in order to compose with him eternal disputes at least a couple of lines of a new novel, because there was less and less time left. But not fate: in 1937, Ilf passed away.

“Back in Moscow. Talk about how it would be nice to die together during some kind of disaster. At least the survivor wouldn't have to suffer." — Evgeny Petrov.

Life has changed dramatically. It was somehow no longer funny. I wanted to write something more serious, but the public demanded wit and humor.

Difficulties of working in a newspaper. Many didn't understand. They asked - why are you doing this? Write something funny. But we have already written everything that was funny in our lives.

Longing for his old friend, Petrov decided to write a monumental work based on Ilf’s notebooks - “My Friend Ilya Ilf.” This required a lot of long work, but once again harsh life interfered with the writer’s plans. The war began, and Petrov went as a front-line correspondent, at the same time receiving the task of writing a monumental work about the heroes of the war. But for the third time something interfered with creative plans a writer well-known to journalists. Death again, but this time of Petrov himself. In July 1942, the plane on which he was returning to Moscow from Sevastopol was shot down by a German fighter over the territory of the Rostov region, near the village of Mankovo. If only the German pilot knew who he had just shot down! This is not just a writer, but the last subtle observer human soul in the current chaos. That’s how Zoshchenko was, that’s how Kharms was, and that’s how they were – Ilf and Petrov. They have written works that they either love or have not read. And the novels are a sight for sore eyes. Good humor everyone loves it. It is also in the feuilletons, which are also worth reading in order to enjoy the author’s style, humor and better understand how the people of that dreary era lived.

– No, this is not Rio de Janeiro! This is much worse!
- In white pants.
- So I’m a millionaire. An idiot's dreams come true!
– On a silver platter.
- No need for applause! I didn't make the Count of Monte Cristo. We'll have to retrain as building managers.
- Kefir. Good help from the heart.
– Office “Horns and Hooves”.
- Saw, Shura, cut!
– Don’t hit your bald head on the parquet.
- Panikovsky will sell you all, buy you and sell you again... but at a higher price.
- Victim of abortion.
“I wish I could stuff your snout, but Zarathustra doesn’t allow it.”
– A giant of thought and the father of Russian democracy.
– I think bargaining is inappropriate here!
– An intellectual mechanic with secondary education.
- Maybe I should give you the key to the apartment where the money is?
- Whose bride is the mare?
- The office writes!
- Mu-u-usik! Ready goo-moustache?
“Give me the sausage, you fool, I’ll forgive everything!”
– I have all the moves written down!
- Not for the sake of selfishness, but only by the will of the wife who sent me.
– A sultry woman, a poet’s dream.
“Whoever says it’s a girl, let him be the first to throw a stone at me.”
– Money in the morning, chairs in the evening!
– The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!
- I will command the parade!
– Do you know who this powerful old man is?
– Monsieur, it’s not mange pas sis jour (the only phrase from French, which is completely driven into memory).
– How much is opium for the people?
- Be rude, boy!
- Well, to hell with you! Get lost here with your chair! And my life is dear to me as a memory!

And can you really remember them all?

Ilf I. and Petrov E.

Ilf I. and Petrov E.
Russian prose writers, co-authors. Ilf Ilya (real name Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg; 1897, Odessa - 1937, Moscow), was born into the family of a bank employee. In 1913 he graduated from technical school. He worked in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, at an aircraft factory, was an employee of the newspaper “Seaman”, and editor of the humorous magazine “Syndetikon”. Since 1923 - in Moscow; publ. feuilletons, essays and reviews in newspapers and magazines (“Smekhach”, “Soviet Screen”, “Evening Moscow”). In 1925, at the editorial office of the newspaper Gudok, he met his future co-author. Petrov Evgeny (real name - Evgeny Petrovich Kataev; 1903, Odessa - 1942, died at the front). Brother of V.P. Kataev. After graduating from a classical gymnasium in 1920, he became a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency, then an inspector of the criminal investigation department. Since 1923 - in Moscow; worked in the satirical magazine “Red Pepper”, published in “ Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Gudke" feuilletons and humorous stories under the pseudonym “Foreigner Fedorov”.

The joint activity of Ilf and Petrov began in 1926 by composing themes for drawings and feuilletons in the magazine “Smekhach”. The first significant work, the novel “The Twelve Chairs” (1928), was enthusiastically received by the reader and, in fact, at his request, continued with the novel “The Golden Calf” (1931). The seemingly trivial story of the hunt for Madame Petukhova’s jewelry and the money of the underground millionaire Koreiko became, under the pen of talented satirists, a brilliant panorama of the life of the country in the 1920s. A working day at the editorial office of the newspaper "Stanok", the dormitory named after monk Bertold Schwartz, the communal "Voronya Slobodka", the shy thief Alkhen, the former leader of the district nobility, and now the frightened employee Kisa Vorobyaninov, the roguish father Fyodor, the wife of the responsible worker Ellochka Shchukina with vocabulary cannibals - almost all the episodes and images of this dilogy, recognizable, vivid, memorable and at the same time generally typified, have become household names. Like N.V. Gogol in the poem “Dead Souls,” Ilf and Petrov, with the help of a fascinating story about the adventures of the main character, an enterprising seeker of quick wealth and charming swindler Ostap Bender, with penetrating accuracy, captured the destructive vices not only of his time, but also of the entire system: bureaucracy, carelessness, theft, idleness, official idle talk, Manilov’s dreams of a quick and easy economic take-off, etc. The enduringly popular novels about Ostap Bender repeatedly staged and filmed, their apt characteristics and expressions sparkling with wit, especially understandable given the context, have become firmly established in Russian. speech (“abroad will help us,” “saving drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves,” “the ice has broken,” and many others). Among other works of writers: the story “Bright Personality” (1928), the cycle of satirical short stories “1001 days, or the New Scheherazade” (1929); feuilletons and satirical stories, published mainly in the newspaper Pravda, where the writers worked since 1932 (including “The Merry Unit”, “Armored Place”, “Kloop”); book of travel essays “One-Storey America” (1936); film scripts. Ilf also left " Notebooks"(published in 1939), Petrov - scripts for the films "Air Cabby" (together with G. N. Moonblit), " Musical history", "Anton Ivanovich is angry", and also caused by the impressions of a war correspondent "Front Diary" (1942).

Literature and language. Modern illustrated encyclopedia. - M.: Rosman. Edited by prof. Gorkina A.P. 2006 .

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Books

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. Collected works. In 5 volumes. Volume 3. Fun unit, Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov. The second volume of the Collected Works of Ilf and Petrov includes the novel The Golden Calf, as well as essays, feuilletons and stories written in 1929-1931. As a preface, here is...

Essays

novel “The Twelve Chairs” (1928);
novel “The Golden Calf” (1931);
short stories “Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk” (1928);
fantastic story “Bright Personality”;
short story “A Thousand and One Days, or New Scheherazade” (1929);
script for the film “Once Upon a Summer” (1936);
story “One-Storey America” (1937).

The collected works of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov in five volumes were re-published (after 1939) in 1961 by the State Publishing House fiction. In the introductory article to this collection of works, D. I. Zaslavsky wrote:

The fate of the literary partnership of Ilf and Petrov is unusual. She touches and excites. They did not work together for long, only ten years, but in history Soviet literature left a deep, indelible mark. The memory of them does not fade, and the love of readers for their books does not weaken. The novels “The Twelve Chairs” and “The Golden Calf” are widely known.

Film adaptations of works

- One summer
- Quite seriously (essay on How Robinson was created)
- Ilf and Petrov rode on a tram (based on stories and feuilletons)

Interesting facts from the biography of writers

A few years after the start of the joint creative activity Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov wrote (in 1929) a kind of “double autobiography” (the text can be read: Ilf I., Petrov E., Collected Works in 6 volumes. T.1, Moscow, 1961, p.236), in which, with their characteristic wonderful humor, they talked about how the two “halves” of the author of “The Twelve Chairs”, the satirical story “Bright Personality”, and the grotesque short stories “Extraordinary Stories from the Life of the City” were born, grew up, matured and finally united (in 1925) Kolokolamsk" and so on.

Ilya Ilf was born into the family of a bank employee and in 1913. graduated from technical school. He worked in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, at an aircraft factory and at a hand grenade factory. After which he became a statistician, then an editor of the humorous magazine Syndetikon, in which he wrote poetry under a female pseudonym, an accountant and a member of the Presidium of the Odessa Union of Poets.

Evgeniy Petrov was born into the family of a teacher and in 1920. He graduated from a classical gymnasium, after which he became a student at the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. After, during three years, served as a criminal investigation inspector. His first literary work was a protocol for examining the corpse of an unknown man. In 1923 Evgeny Petrov moved to Moscow, where he continued his education while working in humorous newspapers and magazines. He wrote several books of humorous stories.

Evgeny Petrov was the younger brother of the famous Soviet writer Valentina Kataeva.

Memory

Monuments to writers have been unveiled in Odessa. The monument shown at the end of the film The Twelve Chairs (1971) never actually existed.
Promotes his works "two fathers" Ilf's daughter Alexandra, who works as an editor at a publishing house where she translates texts into English language. For example, thanks to her work, the complete author’s version of The Twelve Chairs was published, without censorship and with a chapter not included in the earlier texts.

WE WENT IN THE TRAM ILF AND PETROV- “ILF AND PETROV WENT IN A TRAM”, USSR, MOSFILM, 1971, b/w, 72 min. Satirical retro comedy. Based on the works of I. Ilf and E. Petrov. About the morals of Moscow during the NEP period based on feuilletons, stories, notebooks of Ilf and Petrov and newsreels... ... Encyclopedia of Cinema

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Ilf- Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich Ilya Ilf Ilya Ilf Birth name: Yechiel Leib Arievich Fainzilberg Date of birth: October 4 (16), 1897 ... Wikipedia

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PETROV Victor- artist, actor. 1971 ROADING IN A TRAM ILF AND PETROV artist 1973 EVERY DAY DOCTOR KALINNIKOVA artist 1974 DEAR BOY artist 1975 HELLO, I AM YOUR AUNT! artist 1977 STEPPE artist 1978 FATHER SERGY (see FATHER SERGY (1978)) artist ... Encyclopedia of Cinema

Books

I. Ilf. E. Petrov. Collected works in 5 volumes (set), I. Ilf, E. Petrov. The fate of the literary partnership of Ilf and Petrov is unusual. She touches and excites. They did not work together for long, only ten years, but they left a deep mark in the history of Soviet literature...

ILF AND PETROV, Russian satirical writers.

Ilf Ilya (pseudonym; real name and surname Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg), born into the family of a bank employee. Graduated from Odessa Technical School (1913). Entered literary circle“Collective of Poets” (among its participants are E. G. Bagritsky, Yu. K. Olesha). In 1923 he moved to Moscow. He worked in the newspaper “Gudok”, where M. A. Bulgakov, V. P. Kataev, L. I. Slavin, Yu. K. Olesha and others collaborated; wrote mainly stories and essays that reflected the experience of the revolution and Civil War 1917-22. He first signed the pseudonym Ilf in 1923.

Petrov Evgeniy (pseudonym; real name and surname Evgeniy Petrovich Kataev), born into the family of a history teacher. Brother of V.P. Kataev. He changed several professions: he worked as a correspondent, was a criminal investigation agent, etc. He moved to Moscow in 1923. He made his debut with the story “The Goose and the Stolen Boards” (1924); published feuilletons (under the pseudonyms Shilo in the bag, E. Petrov, etc.) in humor magazines"Red Pepper" and "Red Wasp". No later than 1925 he met Ilf; in 1926 he went to work at Gudok. He published collections of stories “The Joys of Megas” (1926), “Without a Report” (1927), “The Comprehensive Bunny” (1928), etc.

Started in 1926 collaboration Ilf and Petrov; published under the pseudonyms F. Tolstoevsky, Cold Philosopher, Vitaly Pseldonimov, Copernicus, A. Nemalovazhny, Sobakevich and others in satirical magazines (“Smekhach”, “Ogonyok”, “Crank”, etc.). Brought wide popularity to Ilf and Petrov satirical novel“The Twelve Chairs” (1928), in the center of which is the witty adventurer Ostap Bender, acting against the backdrop of a wide-ranging panorama of Soviet life in the 1920s. The style of classical Russian prose coexists in the novel with newspaper cliches, slogans, and ideological clichés, which are subject to ironic rethinking and ridicule. Criticism accused the authors of “jeering” and the absence of real satire; only a year after publication, condescending reviews appeared. Other works of this period include numerous feuilletons, the satirical story “Bright Personality” (1928), and the cycle of satirical short stories “1001 Days, or the New Scheherazade” (1929). In the stories of this time, Ilf and Petrov addressed topical issues: political purge (“The Phantom Lover,” 1929), bureaucracy (“On the Verge of Death,” 1930), opportunism in literature (“Pale Child of the Century,” 1929), etc. Bender’s story was continued in the novel “The Golden Calf” (1931), where the image of the hero became more complex: he ironically observes the life of Soviet citizens, notes the ugliness of modern life (mismanagement, ideologization of culture, etc.). The satirical plan is balanced by an idealized image of the socialist world, which gives the novel optimistic pathos (episodes of the construction of Turksib, the motor rally, etc.). The novel was highly appreciated by A.V. Lunacharsky and favorably received by critics (V.B. Shklovsky, G.N. Moonblit, etc.).

In the 1930s, when it became increasingly difficult to print satirical stories, Ilf and Petrov tried to write feuilletons in the genre of “positive satire”, with optimistic endings (“Literary Tram”, 1932, “Cold of a Dog”, 1935, etc.). The main theme of the feuilletons of the 1st half of the 1930s was the fight against bureaucracy (“The Bone Leg,” 1934), indifference (“The Serene Stand,” 1934), and lawlessness (“The Case of Student Sveranovsky,” 1935). In 1935-36, Ilf and Petrov made a car trip around the United States, the result of which was a series of travel essays (on which the authors worked separately) “One-story America” (1936) - an attempt to objectively comprehend the life of Americans, their achievements and shortcomings.

After Ilf’s death from tuberculosis, Petrov prepared and published his notebooks (1939). In the late 1930s, Petrov wrote mainly essays, as well as film scripts in collaboration with G. N. Moonblit (“Musical History”, “Anton Ivanovich is Angry”, etc.). During the Great Patriotic War worked as a front-line correspondent for the newspapers Pravda and Izvestia. Died in a plane crash while flying from Sevastopol to Moscow. Awarded the Order of Lenin.

The works of Ilf and Petrov were repeatedly staged and filmed (directed by L. I. Gaidai, M. A. Schweitzer, M. A. Zakharov), and translated into many languages of the world.

Works: Collection. cit.: In 5 vols. M., 1994-1996; Twelve Chairs: The first complete version of the novel / Comment. M. Odessky, D. Feldman. M., 1997; Ilf I. Notebooks. 1925-1937. M., 2000 [first complete ed.]; Petrov E. My friend Ilf. M., 2001; Ilf I. One-story America: [Author's edition]. M., 2003.

Lit.: Galanov B. E. I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Life. Creation. M., 1961; Memories of I. Ilf and E. Petrov. M., 1963; Préchac A. Il'f et Petrov, témoins de leur temps. R., 2000. Vol. 1-3; Milne L. Zoshchenko and the Ilf-Petrov partnership: how they laughed. Birmingham, 2003; Lurie Y. S. In the land of unafraid idiots: a book about Ilf and Petrov. 3rd ed. St. Petersburg, 2005.

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