Tag: Ilya Ilf
Odessa Artist: Alexandre Fasini
Sandro Fazini (real name and surname Srul Feinsilberg), artist, graphic artist, painter, the elder brother of a famous writer Ilia .....
Osip Shor: the story of the real prototype of the great schemer
Many knows about Ostap Bender. And it is known that this collective character, but there was still a prototype. His .....
The pearls of the Odessa Literature Museum
The Museum was founded in 1977, on the initiative of Nikita Brygin, Russian journalist, ethnographer and writer, opened to the .....
The Bookshelf: How the Soviet Robinson Was Written
The two friends, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, were born in Odessa, the humor capital of the Russian Empire (now .....
Ilf and Petrov’s excellent adventure: a look back at Odessa writers’ 1935 trip in the USA
In 1935, the collaborative satirical writers Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903–1942) travelled to the United States from the .....
Prominent Odessans: Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov
These were the first Soviet journalists to travel by car from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts of the United .....
Odessa, the city of broken statues
A cultural journey from the foundation of Odessa, through Soviet Union, to current times, with the voice of city’s writers, .....
The Twelfth Chair of Odessa
There is a funny monument in the City Garden of Odessa, a bronze chair with strange inscriptions, and the tourists .....
