About “The Twelve Chairs”

Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia, joins Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman searching for jewels hidden in chairs appropriated by Soviet authorities. Their search takes them from the provinces to Moscow to Soviet Georgia and the Trans-Caucasus mountains, encountering opportunistic bureaucrats and aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes.

Book details

Published
1928
Latest edition
2011 · ISBN 9780810127722
ISBN
9781963956023
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The Twelve Chairs by Илья Арнольдович Ильф has 395 pages.

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