Yevgeni Petrov
Birth date: November 30, 1902
Died: July 02, 1942
Yevgeni Petrov's Books
Almost ten years after the Russian Revolution, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobryaninov has put his past as an aristocrat behind him. Unlike most of his class, he as managed to avoid the gulag or execution. He works as a low-level bureaucrat in a provincial town. He doesn’t have much to complain about othe...
I'm almost ashamed for not enjoying this book a lot more, but I suppose I've read it too late. The beginning was one of the funniest I've come across in a long time, there were hilarious moments when I laughed out loud, the plot was really well crafted at times and it had some interesting insights i...
Is this one of the works that are untranslatable like Eugene Onegin, I'm not sure. Could be. Ostap Bender is now one of my favourite characters. I've suspicion he might be a sociopath, someone you would wish to avoid in real life but as fictional character it's hard not to like him. He is very charm...
Director: Mel BrooksRon Moody ... Ippolit Vorobyaninov Frank Langella ... Ostap Bender Dom DeLuise ... Father Fyodor Andréas Voutsinas ... Nikolai Sestrin Diana Coupland ... Madame Bruns
Foreword and NotesTranslator's Introduction--The Twelve ChairsTranslator's Notes
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