AUTHORS STUDIED (in the order we read them): Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol. Fonvizin. Turgenev. Dostoevsky. Leskov. Chekhov. Garshin. Tolstoy. Gorky. Andreev. Bunin. Babel. Zamiatin. Polevoi. Platonov. Nagibin. Ilf and Petrov. Zoshchenko. Nabokov. Paustovsky. Kazakov. Solzhenitsyn. Trifonov. Shukshin. Bitov. Iskander. Aksenov. Aitmatov. Sokolov. Rasputin. Petrushevskaya. Tolstaya.
(in English)
12 Chairs. Main menu.
"Interplanetary Chess Congress. Excerpt from The Twelve Chairs.
12 Chairs Interactive. Advertisement for a CD based on the movie version of Ilf and Petrov's Twelve Chairs.
Twelve chairs. Illustrations by Alexander Levitas another and yet another and even one more.
Miroslav Melena. Stage design for "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilia Ilf and Evgenii Petrov, Studio Y, Liberec, 1973, Evald Schorm, director; tempera on cardboard, 19¾" x 27½".
The Twelve Chairs. Mel Brooks video - reviews on Amazon.com.
(in Russian)
Twelve chairs 1956 edition (includes an introduction by K. Simonov) and 1997 edition (introduction by M. P. Odesskij and D. M. Fel'dman). [ Texts in Russian.]
Twelve Chairs. Set up by chapters, with commentary at the end. [Text in Russian]
Ilf i Petrov. Some of their works [in Russian]. Available from Maksim Moshkow's site.
Trip to Odessa. Short account, published in the journal Chudak, 1929.
Golden Calf. Text in Russian.
Ilf, Ilya and Petrov, Evgeny. From the "Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers" page.
Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. Brief introduction from Odessa Web.
Ilya Ilf. Also one on Evgeny Petrov. Brief notes from Odessaglobe.
Evgeny Petrov. Picture of Petrov from Odessaglobe site.
Ilya Ilf. Picture of Ilf from Odessaglobe site.
Ilf and Petrov. Photo from the "My Library" site (lib.pavel.km.ru).
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