Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely heroes from the provinces to Moscow to the wilds of Soviet Georgia and the Trans-caucasus mountains; on their quest they encounter a wide variety of characters: from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and ineffective than the one before.

The twelve chairs

Literature & Fiction

Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a︡

Contemporary

SPHERE

Russian Book. Publisher: Tekst, M. Pages: 477. Year: 2007. Cover: Hardcover.

Kak Sozdavalsia Robinzon: Fel'etony i Rasskazy[How Robinson was created: Note books: 1925-1937: First complete edition]

Petrov, Evgenii

Tekst

Dvenadt͡s︡atʹ stulʹev: Roman (Russian Edition)

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