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ILF AND PETROV– Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich (1897–1937) (real name Fainzilberg), Petrov Evgeniy Petrovia (1903–1942) (real name Kataev), Russian prose writers.

Ilf was born on October 4 (16), 1897 in Odessa in the family of a bank employee. In 1913 he graduated from technical school, after which he worked in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, at an aircraft factory, and at a hand grenade factory. After the revolution, he was an accountant, a journalist at YugROSTA, an editor in humorous and other magazines, and a member of the Odessa Union of Poets. In 1923 he came to Moscow and became an employee of the Gudok newspaper, with which M. Bulgakov, Y. Olesha and other subsequently famous writers collaborated in the 1920s. Ilf wrote materials of a humorous and satirical nature - mainly feuilletons. Petrov was born on November 30, 1903 in Odessa in the family of a teacher. Became the prototype of Pavlik Bachey in the trilogy of his older brother Valentin Kataev Waves of the Black Sea. In 1920 he graduated from a classical gymnasium and became a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. In the autobiography of Ilf and Petrov (1929) it is said about Petrov: “After that, he served as a criminal investigation inspector for three years. His first literary work there was a protocol for examining the corpse of an unknown man.” In 1923 Petrov arrived in Moscow. V. Kataev introduced it among journalists and writers. Petrov became an employee of the Red Pepper magazine, and in 1926 he came to work for the Gudok magazine. Like Ilf, he wrote mainly humorous and satirical materials.

In 1927 collaboration over the novel The twelve Chairs The creative collaboration between Ilf and Petrov began. The plot basis of the novel was suggested by Kataev, to whom the authors dedicated this work. In his memoirs about Ilf, Petrov later wrote: “We quickly agreed that the plot with chairs should not be the basis of the novel, but only the reason, the reason for showing life.” The co-authors fully succeeded in this: their works became the brightest “encyclopedia Soviet life» late 1920s – early 1930s.

The novel was written in less than six months; in 1928 it was published in the magazine “30 days” and in the publishing house “Land and Factory”. In the book edition, the co-authors restored the banknotes that they were forced to make at the request of the magazine editor.

Ostap Bender was originally conceived as minor character. For him, Ilf and Petrov had only a phrase prepared: “The key to the apartment where the money is.” Subsequently, like many other phrases from novels about Ostap Bender (“The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!”; “A sultry woman is a poet’s dream”; “Money in the morning, chairs in the evening”; “Don’t awaken the beast in me”, etc.) , she became winged. According to Petrov’s recollections, “Bender gradually began to push out of the framework prepared for him, and soon we could no longer cope with him. By the end of the novel, we treated him as if he were a living person, and were often angry with him for the impudence with which he wormed his way into every chapter.”

Some images of the novel were outlined in Ilf’s notebooks and in humorous stories Petrova. So, Ilf has a note: “Two young people. All life phenomena are answered only with exclamations. The first one says “horror”, the second one says “beauty”. In Petrov's humoresque Gifted girl(1927) a girl “with an unpromising forehead” speaks in the heroine’s language Twelve chairs cannibals Ellochka.

Novel The twelve Chairs attracted the attention of readers, but critics did not notice it. O. Mandelstam wrote with indignation in 1929 that this “pamphlet splashing with fun” was not needed by the reviewers. A. Tarasenkov’s review in Literaturnaya Gazeta was entitled The book that is not written about. Rapp critics called the novel “gray mediocrity” and noted that it does not contain “charged deep hatred of the class enemy.”

Ilf and Petrov began working on a continuation of the novel. To do this, they had to “resurrect” Ostap Bender, who was stabbed to death in the finale Twelve chairs Kisa Vorobyaninov. New novel Golden calf was published in 1931 in the magazine “30 days”, in 1933 it was published a separate book in the publishing house "Federation". After release Golden calf The dilogy became incredibly popular not only in the USSR, but also abroad. Western critics compared her to The adventures of the good soldier Schweik J. Hasek. L. Feuchtwanger wrote that he had never seen “the commonwealth develop into such a creative unity.” Even V.V. Nabokov, who spoke contemptuously of Soviet literature, noted in 1967 the amazing talent of Ilf and Petrov and called their works “absolutely first-class.”

In both novels, Ilf and Petrov parodied Soviet reality - for example, its ideological clichés (“Beer is sold only to trade union members,” etc.). Meyerhold's performances also became the subject of parody ( Marriage at the Columbus Theater), and the correspondence of F.M. Dostoevsky with his wife published in the 1920s (letters from Father Fyodor), and the searches of the post-revolutionary intelligentsia (“homespun truth” by Vasisualiy Lokhankin). This gave grounds for some representatives of the first Russian emigration to call the novels of Ilf and Petrov a libel against the Russian intelligentsia.

In 1948, the Secretariat of the Writers' Union decided to consider The twelve Chairs And Golden calf libelous and slanderous books, the republication of which “can only cause indignation on the part of Soviet readers.” The ban on reprinting was also enshrined in a special resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which was in force until 1956.

Between two novels about Bender, Ilf and Petrov wrote a satirical story Bright personality(1928), two series of grotesque short stories Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk And 1001 days, or New Scheherazade(1929) and other works.

Since 1932, Ilf and Petrov began writing feuilletons for the newspaper Pravda. In 1933–1934 we visited Western Europe, in 1935 - in the USA. Sketches about travel to the USA compiled into a book One-story America(1937). It was a story about small country towns and farms, and ultimately about the “average American.”

The creative collaboration of writers was interrupted by Ilf’s death in Moscow on April 13, 1937. Petrov made a lot of efforts to publish notebooks Ilfa, I've got it in mind great work My friend Ilf. In 1939–1942 Petrov worked on the novel Journey to the land of communism, in which he described the USSR in 1963.

During the Great Patriotic War Petrov became a front-line correspondent. He died on July 2, 1942 in a plane crash while returning to Moscow from Sevastopol.

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 they left a deep, indelible mark on the history of Soviet literature. 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 Valentin Kataev.

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 the works of his "two fathers" Ilf's daughter Alexandra, who works as an editor at a publishing house where she translates texts into English. 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 times based on feuilletons, stories, notebooks of Ilf and Petrov and newsreels... ... Encyclopedia of Cinema

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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...

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I’ve been telling you about Ilf for two days now, it’s time to add some color about my co-author.

Petrov was actually Kataev. Younger brother. Senior Kataev - famous writer, author of the lonely sail, successful under Soviet rule and favored by critics.

When the elder Kataev was already happy, satisfied and understood in what way to write for Soviet publishing houses so that he would always be published, and with whom to be friends, the younger Kataev worked in the police of the city of Odessa, where life was completely sad. And since the elder Kataev was accustomed to achieving whatever he wanted, he insisted that his “unlucky and too honest” younger brother come to Moscow. Senior Kataev knocked out job for the younger one in the railway corporate newspaper "Gudok" and introduced him to Ilya Fainzilberg (under the pseudonym Ilf). The younger Kataev decided that he would achieve everything himself, without his brother’s shadow, and took the pseudonym Petrov. The elder Kataev from the master's shoulder told future co-authors the idea of 12 chairs in embryo and sent them as literary blacks prepare drafts, which I later wanted to go through “with the hand of a master” and almost pass off as my own book. It was framed humorously, but for some reason there is no doubt about the elder Kataev’s ability to use everything that can be taken in the world for his own purposes.

Below the cut is an excerpt from “Memories of Ilf and Petrov” about this incident:

How did it happen that Ilf and I started writing together? To call it an accident would be too simple. Ilf is gone, and I will never know what he was thinking when we started working together. I felt a feeling of great respect for him, and sometimes even admiration. I was five years younger than him, and although he was very shy, wrote little and never showed what he had written, I was ready to recognize him as my meter. His literary taste seemed to me at that time impeccable, and the boldness of his opinions delighted me. But we had one more meter, so to speak, a professional meter. It was my brother, Valentin Kataev. At that time, he also worked at Gudok as a feuilletonist and signed with the pseudonym “Old Man Sobakin.” And in this capacity he often appeared in the room of the fourth page.
One day he entered there with the words:
- I want to become the Soviet Dumas father.
This arrogant statement did not arouse much enthusiasm in the department. And it was not with such statements that people entered the room of the fourth page.
- Why, Valyun, did you suddenly want to become a Dumas-per? - Ilf asked.
“Because, Ilyusha, it’s high time to open a workshop of the Soviet novel,” answered Old Man Sobakin, “I will be Dumas the father, and you will be my blacks.” I will give you topics, you will write novels, and then I will edit them. I’ll go over your manuscripts a couple of times with a master’s hand - and it’s done. Like Dumas-per. Well? Who wants? Just remember, I'm going to keep you in a black body.
We joked a little more about how Old Man Sobakin would be Dumas the father, and we would be his blacks. Then they started talking seriously.
“There is an excellent topic,” said Kataev, “chairs.” Imagine money hidden in one of the chairs. They need to be found. Why not an adventure novel? There are still topics... Eh? Agree. Seriously. Let Ilya write one novel, and Zhenya write the other.
He quickly wrote a poetic feuilleton about a goat, which was being carried by the head of some road in a second-class compartment, signed himself “Old Man Dog” and ran away somewhere. And Ilf and I left the room and began to walk along the longest corridor of the Palace of Labor.
- Well, shall we write? - I asked.
“Well, we can try,” Ilf answered.
“Let’s do this,” I said, “let’s start right away.” You are one novel, and I am another. Let's first make plans for both novels.
Ilf thought.
- Maybe we can write together? - Like this?
- Well, we’ll just write one novel together. I liked about these chairs. Well done Sobakin.
- How about together? By chapters, or what?
“No,” said Ilf, “let’s try to write together, every line at the same time.” Do you understand? one will write, the other will sit nearby at this time. In general, write together.
That day we had lunch in the dining room of the Palace of Labor and returned to the editorial office to compose an outline for the novel. Soon we were alone in a huge empty building. We are also night watchmen. There was a weak light bulb burning under the ceiling. Pink desktop paper, which covered the connected tables, was stained with blots and completely covered with desperate witticisms of the fourth page. The menacing “Snot and Screams” hung on the wall.
How many chairs should there be? Obviously, the complete set is twelve pieces. We liked the name. "The twelve Chairs". We started improvising. We quickly agreed that the plot with the chairs should not be the basis of the novel, but only the reason, the reason for showing life. We drew up a rough plan one evening and showed it to Kataev the next day. Dumas the father approved the plan, said that he was leaving for the south, and demanded that the first part be ready for his return in a month.
“And then I’ll go through the master’s hand,” he promised.
We whined.
“Valyun, go through the master’s hand now,” said Ilf, “according to this plan.”
- Nothing, nothing, you are blacks and have to work.
And he left. And we stayed. This was in August or September 1927.
And our evenings began in the empty editorial office. Now I absolutely cannot remember who said what phrase, who corrected it and how. In fact, there was not a single phrase that was not discussed and changed in one way or another, there was not a single thought or idea that was not immediately picked up. But the first sentence of the novel was spoken by Ilf. I remember this well.
After a short argument, it was decided that I would write; Ilf convinced me that my handwriting was better.
I sat down at the table. How do we start? The contents of the chapter were known. The hero's surname was known - Vorobyaninov. It had already been decided to give him the features of my cousin - the chairman of the district zemstvo government. The surname for the mother-in-law had already been invented - Madame Petukhova and the name funeral home- "Welcome". Only the first sentence was missing. An hour has passed. The phrase was not born. That is, there were a lot of phrases, but neither Ilf nor I liked them. The prolonged pause weighed heavily on us. Suddenly I saw that Ilf’s face became even harder than always, he stopped (before that he had been walking around the room) and said:
- Let's start simple and old-fashioned - “In county town N". In the end, it doesn't matter how you start, as long as you start.
That's how we started.
And on that first day we experienced a feeling that never left us later. Feeling of difficulty. It was very difficult for us to write. We worked at a newspaper and humor magazines very conscientiously. We knew from childhood what work was. But we never realized how difficult it is to write a novel. If I weren't afraid of sounding banal, I would say that we wrote in blood. We left the Palace of Labor at two or three in the morning, stunned, almost suffocated by cigarette smoke. We returned home through the wet and empty Moscow alleys, illuminated by greenish gas lamps, unable to utter a word.
Sometimes we were overcome with despair.
- Will the moment really come when the manuscript will finally be written and we will carry it in a sleigh? It will snow. What a wonderful feeling it must be - the work is finished, nothing more needs to be done.
Still, we finished the first part on time. Seven printed sheets were written per month. It wasn’t a novel yet, but there was already a manuscript in front of us, a rather thick stack of large, densely written sheets. We've never had such a plump pack before. We happily went through it, numbered it and endlessly calculated the number of printed characters in a line, multiplied these characters by the number of lines in a page, then multiplied by the number of pages. Yes. We were not mistaken. The first part had seven sheets. And each sheet contained forty thousand wonderful little characters, including commas and colons.
We solemnly took the manuscript to Dumas the Father, who had already returned by that time. We couldn't imagine whether we wrote well or badly. If Dumas the Father, aka Old Man Sobakin, aka Valentin Kataev, had told us that we had brought nonsense, we would not have been at all surprised. We were preparing for the worst. But he read the manuscript, read all seven pages in front of us, and said very seriously:
- You know, I liked what you wrote. In my opinion, you are completely accomplished writers.
- What about the master’s hand? - Ilf asked.
- Don’t be too humble, Ilyusha. You can do without Dumas-per. Keep writing yourself. I think the book will be a success.
We continued to write.

Everything went well. Ilf and Petrov painted 12 chairs, so well that the elder Kataev could not add anything and fell out of the picture. And they wrote more, and more, and more.

And then everything went wrong again. Ilf died of tuberculosis, and Petrov was left alone. That's when it started amazing story, taken by Alexey Nuzhny as a script for the Kevin Spacey competition and won, as a result of which Kevin Spacey himself starred in this short film.

Ilf I. and Petrov E.- Russian Soviet satirical writers; co-authors who worked together. In the novels “The Twelve Chairs” (1928) and “The Golden Calf” (1931) - they created adventures talented swindler and adventurer, showing satirical types and Soviet morals of the 20s. Feuilletons, book “One-Storey America” (1936).

IN Russian literature XX century Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov take the place of the most beloved satirical writers among the people. You can read their books, re-read them, you can even talk with phrases from them all your life. Many people do just that.

Ilya Ilf(pseudonym; real name and surname Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg) was born on October 15 (October 3, old style) 1897 in Odessa, in the family of a bank employee. Libra. He was an employee of Yugrost and the newspaper “Sailor”. In 1923, having moved to Moscow, he became a professional writer. In Ilya’s early essays, stories and feuilletons, it is not difficult to find thoughts, observations and details that were later used in the joint writings of Ilf and Petrov.

Evgeniy Petrov(pseudonym; real name and surname Evgeny Petrovich Kataev) was born on December 13 (November 30, old style) 1902 in Odessa, in the family of a history teacher. Zodiac sign - Sagittarius. He was a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency, then an inspector of the criminal investigation department. In 1923, Zhenya moved to Moscow and became a journalist.

In 1925, the future co-authors met, and in 1926 their joint work began, which at first consisted of composing themes for drawings and feuilletons in the magazine “Smekhach” and processing materials for the newspaper “Gudok”. The first significant collaboration between Ilf and Petrov was the novel “The Twelve Chairs,” published in 1928 in the magazine “30 Days” and published as a separate book in the same year. The novel was a great success. It is notable for its many brilliantly executed satirical episodes, characteristics and details, which were the result of topical life observations.

The novel was followed by several short stories and novellas (“Bright Personality”, 1928, “1001 Days, or New Scheherazade”, 1929); At the same time, systematic work by writers began on feuilletons for Pravda and Literary newspaper" In 1931, the second novel by Ilf and Petrov was published - “The Golden Calf”, the story of the further adventures of the hero of “The Twelve Chairs” Ostap Bender. The novel contains a whole gallery of small people, overwhelmed by acquisitive motives and passions and existing “in parallel big world in which they live big people and big things."

In 1935 - 1936, the writers traveled around the United States, which resulted in the book “One-Storey America” (1936). In 1937, Ilf died, and the Notebooks published after his death were unanimously praised by critics as an outstanding literary work. After the death of his co-author, Petrov wrote a number of film scripts (together with G. Moonblit), the play “Island of Peace” (published in 1947), “Front-line Diary” (1942). In 1940 he joined the Communist Party and from the first days of the war became a war correspondent for Pravda and Informburo. Awarded the Order of Lenin and a medal.

The books of Ilf and Petrov were repeatedly dramatized and filmed, republished in the USSR and translated into many languages. foreign languages. (G.N. Moonblit)

Essays:

Collected Works, vol. 1 - 4, M., 1938;
Collection soch., vol. 1 - 5, M., 1961.

Literature:

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, Preface, in the books: Ilf I. and Petrov E., Twelve Chairs. Golden Calf, M., 1956;
Sintsova T. N., I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Materials for bibliography, L., 1958;
Abram Zinovievich Vulis, I. Ilf and E. Petrov. Essay on creativity, M., 1960;
Boris Galanov, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, M., 1961;
Memoirs of I. Ilf and E. Petrov, M., 1963;
Yanovskaya L., Why do you write funny?, M., 1969;
Russian Soviet writers, prose writers. Biobibliographic index, volume 2; L., 1964.

Books:

I. Ilf. E. Petrov. Collected works in five volumes. Volume 1, I. Ilf, E. Petrov.
I. Ilf. E. Petrov. Collected works in five volumes. Volume 2, I. Ilf, E. Petrov.
I. Ilf. E. Petrov. Collected works in five volumes. Volume 4, I. Ilf, E. Petrov.

Ilf and Petrov were traveling on a tram, USSR, 1971.

Film adaptations works:

1933 - Twelve chairs;
1936 - Circus;
1936 - One day in the summer;
1938 - 13 chairs;
1961 - Quite seriously (essay on How Robinson was created);
1968 - Golden Calf;
1970 - The Twelve Chairs (Twelve chairs);
1971 - Twelve Chairs;
1972 - Ilf and Petrov rode on a tram (based on stories and feuilletons);
1976 - Twelve chairs;
1989 - Bright personality;
1993 - Dreams of an idiot;
2004 - Twelve Chairs (Zwölf Stühle);
2006 - Golden Calf.

Ilf I. and Petrov E. - Russian Soviet satirists; co-authors who worked together. In the novels “The Twelve Chairs” (1928) and “The Golden Calf” (1931), they created the adventures of a talented swindler and adventurer, showing satirical types and Soviet morals of the 20s. Feuilletons, book “One-Storey America” (1936).

Ilya Ilf (pseudonym; real name and surname Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg) was born on October 15 (October 3, old style) 1897, in Odessa, in the family of a bank employee. He was an employee of Yugrost and the newspaper “Sailor”. In 1923, having moved to Moscow, he became a professional writer. In Ilya’s early essays, stories and feuilletons, it is not difficult to find thoughts, observations and details that were later used in the joint writings of Ilf and Petrov.
Evgeniy Petrov (pseudonym; real name and surname Evgeniy Petrovich Kataev) was born on December 13 (November 30, old style) 1903, in Odessa, in the family of a history teacher. He was a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency, then an inspector of the criminal investigation department. In 1923, Zhenya moved to Moscow and became a journalist.

The novel was followed by several short stories and novellas (“Bright Personality”, 1928, “1001 Days, or New Scheherazade”, 1929); At the same time, systematic work by writers began on feuilletons for Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1931, the second novel by Ilf and Petrov was published - “The Golden Calf”, the story of the further adventures of the hero of “The Twelve Chairs” Ostap Bender. The novel presents a whole gallery of small people, overwhelmed by acquisitive impulses and passions and existing “parallel to the big world in which big people and big things live.”

Biography of I. Ilf

Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (Ehiel-Leib Fainzilberg; the pseudonym “Ilf” may be an abbreviation of his name Ilya? Fainzilberg. (October 3 (15), 1897, Odessa - April 13, 1937, Moscow) - Soviet writer and journalist. Biography Ilya (Echiel-Leib) Fainzilberg was born on October 4 (16), 1897 in Odessa, the third of four sons in the family of bank employee Arie Benyaminovich Fainzilberg (1863-1933) and his wife Mindl Aronovna (nee Kotlova; 1868-1922), born from the town of Boguslav, Kyiv province (the family moved to Odessa between 1893 and 1895). In 1913 he graduated from technical school, after which he worked in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, and at a military plant. After the revolution, he was an accountant, journalist, and then editor in humorous magazines.

Essays

The twelve Chairs
Golden calf
Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk
One thousand and one days, or
New Scheherazade
Bright personality
One-story America
A day in Athens
Travel Stories
Start of the hike
Tonya
Vaudeville and film scripts
Stories
Past of the Civil Registry Office Registrar
Under the circus big top
He was a member of the Odessa Union of Poets. In 1923 he came to Moscow and became an employee of the Gudok newspaper. Ilf wrote materials of a humorous and satirical nature - mainly feuilletons. In 1927, the creative collaboration of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov (who also worked for the newspaper Gudok) began with joint work on the novel “The Twelve Chairs”.

In 1928, Idya Ilf was fired from the newspaper due to a reduction in the staff of the satirical department, followed by Yevgeny Petrov. Soon they became employees of the new weekly magazine “Eccentric.” Subsequently, in co-authorship with Evgeny Petrov they wrote (see Ilf and Petrov):

fantastic story “Bright Personality” (filmed)
documentary story “One-Storey America” (1937).

In 1932 - 1937, Ilf and Petrov wrote feuilletons for the newspaper Pravda. In the 1930s, Ilya Ilf was interested in photography. Many years after his death, photographs of Ilya Arnoldovich were accidentally found by Alexandra Ilyinichna’s daughter Ilf. She prepared the book “Ilya Ilf – Photographer” for publication. Photo album. About 200 photographs taken by Ilf and his contemporaries. Articles by A.I. Ilf, A.V. Loginova and L.M. Yanovskaya in Russian and English languages- Moscow, 2002.. While traveling by car in the American states, Ilf developed long-standing tuberculosis, which soon led to his death in Moscow on April 13, 1937.

I. Ilf's older brothers are the French cubist artist and photographer Sandro Fasini, also known as Alexander Fasini (Srul Arievich Fainzilberg (Saul Arnoldovich Fainzilberg), December 23, 1892, Kyiv - 1942, Auschwitz concentration camp, deported July 22, 1942 from Paris with his wife) and the Soviet graphic artist and photographer Mikhail (Moishe-Arn) Arievich Fainzilberg, who used the pseudonyms MAF and Mi-fa (December 30, 1895, Odessa - 1942, Tashkent). The younger brother - Benjamin Arievich Fainzilberg (January 10, 1905, Odessa - 1988, Moscow) - was a topographical engineer.

Biography of E. Petrov

Evgeny Petrov (pseudonym of Evgeny Petrovich Kataev, 1903-1942) - Russian Soviet writer, co-author of Ilya Ilf.

Brother of the writer Valentin Kataev. Father of cinematographer Pyotr Kataev and composer Ilya Kataev. Wife - Valentina Leontievna Grunzaid, from the Russified Germans.

Worked as a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. For three years he served as an inspector of the Odessa criminal investigation department (in the autobiography of Ilf and Petrov (1929) it is said about this period of his life: “His first literary work was a protocol for examining the corpse of an unknown man”). In 1922, during a chase with a shootout, he personally detained his friend Alexander Kozachinsky, who led a gang of raiders. Subsequently, he achieved a review of his criminal case and replacement of A. Kozachinsky with capital punishment social protection- execution upon imprisonment in a camp. In 1923, Petrov came to Moscow, where he became an employee of the Red Pepper magazine. In 1926, he came to work at the newspaper Gudok, where he hired A. Kozachinsky, who had been released by that time under an amnesty, as a journalist. Significant influence Evgeniy Petrov was influenced by his brother Valentin Kataev. Valentin Kataev’s wife recalled: I have never seen such affection between brothers as Valya and Zhenya have. Actually, Valya forced his brother to write. Every morning he started by calling him - Zhenya got up late, started swearing that they woke him up... “Okay, keep swearing,” Valya said and hung up. In 1927, the creative collaboration of Evgeny Petrov and Ilya Ilf (who also worked for the newspaper Gudok) began with the joint work on the novel “The Twelve Chairs”. Subsequently, in co-authorship with Ilya Ilf the following were written:

The novel “The Twelve Chairs” (1928);
novel “The Golden Calf” (1931);
short stories “Extraordinary stories from the life of the city of Kolokolamsk” (1928);
fantasy story “Bright Personality” (filmed);
short story “1001 days, or New Scheherazade” (1929);
story “One-Storey America” (1937).

In 1932-1937, Ilf and Petrov wrote feuilletons for the newspaper Pravda. In 1935-1936, they traveled around the United States, which resulted in the book “One-Storey America” (1937). The books of Ilf and Petrov have been repeatedly dramatized and filmed. The creative collaboration of the writers was interrupted by the death of Ilf in Moscow on April 13, 1937. In 1938, he persuaded his friend A. Kozachinsky to write the story “The Green Van”. In 1939 he joined the CPSU(b).

Petrov made a lot of efforts to publish Ilf’s notebooks and conceived a large work, “My Friend Ilf.” In 1939-1942, Petrov worked on the novel “Journey to the Land of Communism,” in which he described the USSR in 1963 (excerpts were published posthumously in 1965). During the Great Patriotic War, Petrov became a front-line correspondent. He died on July 2, 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. A monument has been erected at the site of the plane crash.

Compositions (solo)

The Joys of Megas, 1926
Without report, 1927
Front diary, 1942
Air carrier. Film scripts, 1943
Island of peace. Play, 1947
Unfinished novel “Journey to the Land of Communism” // “Literary Heritage”, vol. 74, 1965

Ilf and Petrov about the Soviet era. Miracles, or the familiar word “we” What Ilf and Petrov wrote

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