Ilya Ilf (1897–1937)
Author of The Twelve Chairs
About the Author
The famous collection of Ilf and Petrov created the inimitable rogue and confidence man, Ostap Bender, whose adventures, with their frequent satiric thrusts at Soviet life, have become classics of Russian comic literature. In the first novel, The Twelve Chairs (1928), Bender searches for a hoard of show more jewels concealed in a set of dining-room chairs. In the second, The Little Golden Calf (1931), set in the Soviet Union under the first Five-Year Plan, Bender tries hard but fails to become a millionaire. A six-month car trip in 1935--36 through the United States resulted in a witty travelogue. The collaboration was broken by Ilf's untimely death from tuberculosis. Petrov was killed in a plane crash while working as a war correspondent. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Despite the fact that they were frequent collaborators, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov were separate individuals and their author pages should not be combined. Nor should author pages for "Ilf & Petrov" be combined with either's author page.
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Works by Ilya Ilf
Двенадцать стульев / Золотой телёнок 6 copies
Das eingeschossige Amerika: Eine Reise mit Fotos (Extradrucke der Anderen Bibliothek, Band 1) (2014) 2 copies
El conde de Mediterraneo 2 copies
Just. User Manual 2.0 2 copies
Dreizehn Stühle 1 copy
Die Jagd nach der Million 1 copy
Gullkalven 1 copy
ZLATÉ TEĽA 1 copy
Zápisníky 1 copy
Sobranie sochineniˆi: 1 copy
Nova Šeherezada 1 copy
Rasskazy, fel'etony, stat'i 1 copy
The Power of Love 1 copy
Записные книжки 1 copy
Vițelul de aur 1 copy
Associated Works
Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak (1960) — Contributor — 69 copies
Sovjethumor — Author, some editions — 1 copy
ロシア短編集 ПЁСТРЫЕ РАССКАЗЫ 雑話集 III — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Ilf, Ilya
- Legal name
- Faynzilberg, Iehiel-Leyb Arnoldovich
- Other names
- Ilf, Ilja
Il'f, Il'ja
Tolstoevsky, F. (joint pseudonym for collaborations with Evgeniy Petrov) - Birthdate
- 1897-10-15
- Date of death
- 1937-04-13
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
USSR - Country (for map)
- Ukraine
- Birthplace
- Odessa, Russian Empire
- Place of death
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Cause of death
- tuberculosis
- Places of residence
- Moscow, Russia
- Occupations
- journalist
novelist
short-story writer - Relationships
- Ilf & Petrov (gestalt entity)
Petrov, Evgeny (collaborator) - Disambiguation notice
- Despite the fact that they were frequent collaborators, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov were separate individuals and their author pages should not be combined. Nor should author pages for "Ilf & Petrov" be combined with either's author page.
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- Works
- 55
- Also by
- 9
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- 1,452
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