Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with "Little Golden America."It describes the adventures of the two authors, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.

Little Golden America (Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 Ser.) (English and Russian Edition)

History

ILf, Ilya

Petrov, Evgenii

Petrov, Eugene

Americas

Ayer Co. Pub

Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist living by his wits, joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to look for a cache of missing jewels hidden in chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the chairs takes them from the provinces of Moscow to the wilds of the Transcaucasus mountains. On their quest they encounter a variety of characters, from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the old propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and bungling than the last. A brilliant satire of the early years of the Soviet Union, as well as the inspiration for a Mel Brooks film, The Twelve Chairs retains its universal appeal.

The Twelve Chairs: A Novel (Northwestern World Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Petrov, Evgeny

Literary

Northwestern University Press

Revival: Little Golden America (1944): Two famous Soviet humourists survey the United States (Routledge Revivals)

Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with âeoeLittle Golden Americaâe&#157;.It describes the adventures of the two authors, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.

Routledge

Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with "Little Golden America"&#157;. It describes the adventures of the two authors,&nbsp; who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.

Zolotoy Telenok (Russian Edition)

Humor & Satire

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Sud'ba literaturnogo sodruzhestva Il'fa i Petrova neobychna. Ona trogaet i volnuet. Oni rabotali vmeste nedolgo, vsego desjat' let, no v istorii sovetskoj literatury ostavili glubokij, neizgladimyj sled. Pamjat' o nih ne merknet, i ljubov' chitatelej k ih knigam ne slabeet. Shirokoj izvestnost'ju pol'zujutsja romany «Dvenadcat' stul'ev» i «Zolotoj telenok». Beshenyj uspeh, kotoryj obrushilsja na Il'fa i Petrova posle vyhoda «Dvenadcati stul'ev», pobudil soavtorov «voskresit'» svoego geroja, syna turecko-poddannogo Ostapa Bendera. Blistatel'naja dilogija, esli verit' samim avtoram, — «ne vydumka. Vydumat' mozhno bylo by i posmeshnee». Jeto jenciklopedija sovetskogo njepa, jenciklopedija byta pervogo pokolenija «sharikovyh». Kak i ran'she - voshititel'no. Za poslednie 10 let ot predydushhego prochtenija - huzhe knizhka ne stala. Rekomenduju vsem chitat' i perechityvat'. Kniga prekrasno illjustrirovana!

Sud'ba literaturnogo sodruzhestva Il'fa i Petrova neobychna. Ona trogaet i volnuet. Oni rabotali vmeste nedolgo, vsego desjat' let, no v istorii sovetskoj literatury ostavili glubokij, neizgladimyj sled. Pamjat' o nih ne merknet, i ljubov' chitatelej k ih knigam ne slabeet. Shirokoj izvestnost'ju pol'zujutsja romany «Dvenadcat' stul'ev» i «Zolotoj telenok». No romany jeti vozvyshajutsja nad celym literaturnym massivom, kotoryj sostavljajut proizvedenija samyh razlichnyh zhanrov. Obozrevaja literaturnoe nasledie Il'fa i Petrova, ne tol'ko proizvedenija, napisannye imi vmeste, no i kazhdym v otdel'nosti, nel'zja ne podivit'sja shirote tvorcheskih vozmozhnostej pisatelej, literaturnomu blesku fel'etonov, ocherkov, komedij. V prilozhenii mnozhestvo vintazhnyh foto!

Odnoetazhnaya Amerika (Russian Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Hobbies & Games

Byvshij bogach, svetskij lev i «predvoditel' dvoryanstva» Ippolit Vorob'yaninov posle revolyucii stal obychnym deloproizvoditelem ZAGSa v malen'kom gorode. On ne zabyl svoih prezhnih privychek i chasto grezit o byloj zhizni. Odnazhdy razmerennyj hod zhizni okazyvaetsya narushen – umirayushchaya teshcha povedala Vorob'yaninovu ob ogromnom bogatstve, vo vremya revolyucii spryatannom eyu v odin iz stul'ev gostinogo garnitura. On tut zhe brosaetsya na poiski, vmeste so vstrechennym im «velikim kombinatorom», moshennikom i lyubitelem denezhnyh znakov Ostapom Benderom. Sokrovishche najti budet nelegko, no obuyannyh zhazhdoj bogatstva Bendera i Vorob'yaninova ostanovit' budet nevozmozhno! Dlya predlagaemogo izdaniya za osnovu byl vzyat samyj rannij iz sohranivshihsya variantov, perepisannyj Petrovym (RGALI. F. 1821. Op. 1. Ed. hr. 31). Poglavnoe delenie daetsya po mashinopisnomu variantu, i struktura kommentariya sootvetstvuet ehtim soroka trem glavam (RGALI. F. 1821. Op. 1. Ed. hr. 32-33). V ryade sluchaev uchtena chisto stilisticheskaya pravka mashinopisnogo varianta, no ignoriruyutsya pravka ideologicheskaya i sokrashcheniya. Orfografiya i punktuaciya privedeny v sootvetstvie s normami sovremennogo literaturnogo yazyka. Ob"em izdaniya primerno na 30% bol'she privychnogo vsem, sokrashchennogo. Syuzhet romana i samu ideyu soavtorstva Il'fu i Petrovu predlozhil Valentin Petrovich Kataev – brat Petrova, kotoryj k tomu vremeni uzhe byl literaturnoj znamenitost'yu. Po ego planu rabotat' nadlezhalo vtroem: Il'f s Petrovym nacherno pishut roman, Kataev pravit gotovye glavy «rukoyu mastera», pri ehtom literaturnye «negry» ne ostayutsya bezymyannymi – na oblozhku vynosyatsya tri familii. CHto iz ehtogo poluchilos'? Vsem izvestno…

The Twelve Chairs (Russian Edition)

Action & Adventure

In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper "Pravda." They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in "Ogonek," the Soviet equivalent of "Time" magazine, and later in the book "Odnoetazhnaia Amerika" (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in "Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip," the first English translation.
From "Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image."
A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press

Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB

Arts & Photography

Princeton Architectural Press

The Twelve Chairs

Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg) (1897–1937) and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev/Katayev) (1902–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s. They did much of their writing together, and are almost always referred to as "Ilf and Petrov". They were natives of Odessa. 
Ilf and Petrov gained a high profile for their two satirical novels: The Twelve Chairs (1928) and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf (1931). The two texts are connected by their main character, Ostap Bender, a con man in pursuit of elusive riches. Both books follow exploits of Bender and his associates looking for treasure amidst the contemporary Soviet reality. They were written and are set in the relatively liberal era in Soviet history, the New Economic Policy of the 1920s. The main characters generally avoid contact with the apparently lax law enforcement. Their position outside the organized, goal-driven, productive Soviet society is emphasized. It also gives the authors a convenient platform from which to look at this society and to make fun of its less attractive and less Socialist aspects. These are among the most widely read and quoted books in Russian culture. The Twelve Chairs was adapted for ca. twenty movies, in the USSR (by Leonid Gaidai and by Mark Zakharov), in the US (in particular by Mel Brooks), and in other countries. 
From the late 1920s to 1937, the co-authors wrote several theatrical plays and screenplays, as well as many humorous short stories and satirical articles in the magazines: Chudak, 30 days, Krokodil, Ogoniok, the newspapers: Pravda, Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the first years of joint creativity Ilf and Petrov published their stories and satirical under parodic pseudonyms: Tolstoevsky (composed of the names of writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), Don Busilio (from Don Basilio, character in the opera The Barber of Seville, and the Russian verb busa – scandal, noise), Cold philosopher and others. 
The two writers also traveled across the Great Depression-era United States. Ilf took many pictures throughout the journey, and the authors produced a photo essay entitled "American Photographs", published in Ogoniok magazine. Shortly after that they published the book "One-storied America", translated as Little Golden America (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs. Both the photo essay and the book document their adventures with their characteristic humor and playfulness. Notably, Ilf and Petrov were not afraid to praise many aspects of the American lifestyle in these works. (wikipedia.org)

Petrov, Yevgeni

Classics

Bibliotech Press

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Little Golden America (Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 Ser.) (English and Russian Edition)

The Twelve Chairs: A Novel (Northwestern World Classics)

Revival: Little Golden America (1944): Two famous Soviet humourists survey the United States (Routledge Revivals)

Revival: Little Golden America (1944): Two famous Soviet humourists survey the United States (Routledge Revivals)

Zolotoy Telenok (Russian Edition)

Zolotoy Telenok (Russian Edition)

Odnoetazhnaya Amerika (Russian Edition)

The Twelve Chairs (Russian Edition)

Ilf & Petrov's American Road Trip PB

The Twelve Chairs