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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) [1] was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. As Ilf and Petrov, they wrote The Twelve ...
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni, was a popular Soviet author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with Ilya Ilf. As Ilf and Petrov, they wrote The Twelve Chairs, released in 1928, and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf, released in 1931.
Escritor ruso, Yevgeny Petrov fue un popular autor humorista de los años 20 y 30 en la antigua Unión Soviética junto a Ilya Ilf. Durante la II Guerra Mundial, Petrov acudió al frente como reportero de guerra. Murió en un accidente de avión al volver del sitio de Sevastopol.
- How Their Collaboration Began
- The Twelve Chairs
- Censorship and American Road Trip
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...
Soviet humorist. Also known as: Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev. Learn about this topic in these articles: main reference. In Ilf and Petrov. Petrov, the son of a teacher, began his career as a news-service correspondent, worked briefly as a criminal investigator, and went to Moscow in 1923, where he became a professional journalist.
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.
Yevgeny Petrov (younger brother of Valentin Katayev), was also born in Odessa, the son of a history teacher. He graduated in 1920, from a grammar school and started his career as a journalist. In 1921, he became a correspondent for “The Ukrainian Telegraphy.” Before moving to Moscow in 1923, he worked at Odessa Criminal Investigation Department.
