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Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni, (Евгений Петрович Петров, born Katayev (Катаев); December 13 [O.S. November 30] 1902 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf.
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Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni, ( Евгений Петрович Петров, born Katayev ( Катаев ); December 13 [ O.S. November 30] 1902 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf.
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Ilf and Petrov met in Moscow in 1925. The former was 28 and the latter 23. Both worked for Gudok(The Whistle) magazine, editing articles and writing satirical sketches. In their Double Autobiographythe novelists joked that "the author was born twice": In 1897 and 1903, and "began to lead a double life" from a young age. The Jewish boy, Ilf, was the...
That novel was the legendary The Twelve Chairs, which was published in 1927 in a record space of time. It is astonishing that the censors approved this subtle satire directed against the new Soviet order. Here, for instance, is one of the jokes in the novel: "Where would you go? You have no reason to hurry. The GPU will find you themselves." (The G...
After the enormous success of The Twelve Chairs, Ilf and Petrov went on to write a continuation of the adventures of Ostap Bender in 1931. The book was titled The Little Golden Calf. But while their first novel had easily cleared all the hurdles imposed by censorship, in the 1930s the functionaries overseeing literary output discerned a "lampoon ag...
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni, (Евгений Петрович Петров , born Katayev (Катаев ); December 13 [O.S. November 30] 1902 in Odessa – July 2, 1942) was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. As Ilf and Petrov, they wrote T
Yevgeny Petrov was a Russian writer and journalist born in 1894. He wrote over 30 books and hundreds of articles, often satirizing the Soviet Union and its politics. His works, including The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf, are still widely read and studied today.
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov (yĬvgā´nyē pētrô´vĬch pētrôf´), 1903–42, Russian writer and journalist; brother of the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev. Petrov collaborated with Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf on various satirical novels, including The Little Golden Calf (tr. 1933). After Ilf's death in ...
Plot. Evgeniy Petrov, the Soviet Union writer and journalist has an unusual hobby: since the age of six, he writes fake letters to other countries. Every time, he chooses different fake names for his addresses. The envelopes come back, but beautified with colorful foreign stamps and postmarks.
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