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The Russian satirist Yevgeny Petrov became famous after the publication of the books The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf, One-Story America and At War, written in tandem with.
Evgeny Petrovich Kataev (real name of the publicist) was born on December 13, 1902 in Odessa. When people who are not familiar with the work and life of Yevgeny read his autobiography, they get the impression that the creator did not live in the real, but in the ideal Soviet Union. He was free, wrote what he wanted, traveled all over the world and miraculously escaped arrest and repression at a time when everyone was imprisoned.
True, if you dig deeper, it turns out that the real life of a journalist differed from the official biography. It is known that for a couple of years no one knew for sure the true date of birth of Eugene, therefore October 1903 was indicated in all encyclopedias. Only when, in the 1960s, employees of the Odessa archives found a register of births, in which the date of birth and baptism was recorded, did everything fall into place.
The writer's father, Petr Vasilyevich Kataev, worked as a teacher at the diocesan and cadet Odessa schools. Eugene's mother, a Ukrainian from Poltava, died of pneumonia a couple of months after the birth of her second son (the writer has an older brother).
It is known that the Kataevs had an extensive family library, but classical literature did not attract Yevgeny. An inquisitive guy read books by Gustav Emar, and.
In 1920, Evgeny graduated from the 5th Odessa classical gymnasium, in which Alexander Kozachinsky was his classmate and best friend (the boys even took an oath of fraternal fidelity: they cut their fingers with a piece of glass and mixed the blood). Then the future publicist worked for a couple of months as a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency, and after that as an inspector of the criminal investigation department in Odessa.
Few people know, but in 1922, during a chase with a shootout, Kataev personally detained his friend Kozachinsky, who led a gang of raiders. Subsequently, the writer achieved a review of his criminal case. As a result, Alexander was not shot, but sent to a camp.
This story later formed the basis of the adventure story "The Green Van", the prototype of the main character of which - Volodya Patrikeev - was Petrov. Also, films of the same name were made based on the work in 1959 and 1983.
Three years later, Kataev moved to Moscow. There the young man took up self-education and journalism. Already in 1924, the first feuilletons and stories under the pseudonym Petrov appeared in the satirical magazine Red Pepper. During the period of his literary career, the satirist used other pseudonyms. This was done because the writer did not want his works to be attributed to his brother.
Before starting cooperation with Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov published more than fifty humorous and satirical stories in various periodicals and released three independent collections. In 1926, while working in the Gudok newspaper, the publicist met Ilya Ilf, with whom at the initial stages he processed materials for the Gudok newspaper, and also composed themes for drawings and feuilletons in the Smekhach magazine.
When the war began, Petrov became a war correspondent in the Soviet Information Bureau. He wrote for Soviet printed publications and at work, often for a long time, was at the front. Once the writer returned from under Maloyaroslavets shell-shocked by a blast wave.
Despite the fact that the publicist practically did not speak, he hid his condition from colleagues and relatives as best he could. It is known that as soon as he felt a little better, the journalist immediately began to write about the battles for Maloyaroslavets.
Who happened to be with Petrov on one of the longest front-line trips to the Northern Front, recalled that it was extremely difficult for Yevgeny to travel long distances on foot due to a weak heart. Young Simonov often offered Kataev help, but Petrov flatly refused and was happy when a halt was made or they reached the headquarters.
Literature
In the summer of 1927, Ilf and Petrov made a trip to the Crimea, the Caucasus and visited Odessa. They kept a joint travel diary. Later, the impressions from this trip were included in the novel The Twelve Chairs, which was published in 1928 in the monthly literary magazine 30 Days. The novel was a great success with readers, but was rather coldly received by literary critics. Even before the first publication, censorship severely reduced it. Soon the novel began to be translated into European languages, and it was published in many European countries.
Their next novel was The Golden Calf (1931). Initially, the work was published in parts in the monthly "30 days". In September 1931, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov were sent to the Red Army exercises in the Belarusian military district. Based on the materials of the trip, the essay "Difficult Topic" was published in the magazine "30 days". Since 1932, Ilf and Petrov were published in the Pravda newspaper.
In 1935-1936, the writers traveled around the United States, which resulted in the book One-Story America (1937). Also, in collaboration with Ilya Ilf, the short stories “Unusual Stories from the Life of the City of Kolokolamsk” (1928–1929), the fantastic story “A Bright Personality” (1928), the short stories “1001 Days, or New Scheherazade” (1929) and the great many other great works.
The creative cooperation of writers was interrupted by the death of Ilf in 1937. Kataev did a lot to perpetuate the memory of his friend. In 1939, he published Ilya Ilf's Notebooks, and later decided to write a novel called My Friend Ilf. True, the novel was not completed and only separate sketches and detailed versions of the plan have been preserved.
Peru Yevgeny Petrov owns a number of screenplays. In collaboration with Ilya Ilf, Black Barracks (1933), Once Upon a Summer (1936) were created. Later, in collaboration with Georgy Moonblit, “Musical History” (1940), “Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry” (1941) appeared.
Independently Kataev wrote scripts for the films "Quiet Ukrainian Night" and "Air Carrier". It is also known that the writer worked on the script for the film "The Circus", but in the end demanded not to indicate his last name in the credits.
Among other things, films based on the works of Ilf and Petrov were staged: The Golden Calf (1968), The Twelve Chairs (1971), Ilf and Petrov Were Riding a Tram (1972). Also, based on Kataev's play "The Island of the World", the cartoon "Mr. Walk" (1949) was shot.
Personal life
Eugene's wife's name was Valentina, she was eight years younger than him. Petrov surprised his beloved every day and did everything so that a smile did not leave the face of the chosen one. Young people legalized relationships when the girl was barely nineteen. After the wedding, the writer retained the same reverent attitude towards his wife. It is also worth noting that marriage was not influenced by the fashion for open relationships that spread in the 1920s in the bohemian environment.
In this union, two sons were born - Peter (named after his father) and Ilya (named after a friend). According to the memoirs of the writer's granddaughter, her grandmother continued to love her husband until her death (in 1991) and never took off the ring he gave her from her finger.
The eldest son of Evgeny and Valentina became a cameraman, shot many popular Soviet films. The younger Ilya worked as a composer, wrote music for a couple of films and TV shows.
Death
Petrov survived his friend Ilya by five years. After the death of Ilf, death literally followed Evgeny on his heels. Once a writer in the gymnasium laboratory swallowed hydrogen sulfide, and he was barely pumped out in the fresh air. Then, in Milan, the publicist was hit by a cyclist and nearly hit by a passing car.
During the Finnish War, a shell hit the corner of the house where the author of the story "Prodigal Dad" spent the night. Near Moscow, the journalist came under German mortar fire and barely survived. In the same year, the screenwriter got his fingers pinched by the door of the front-line emka. This happened when German aircraft attacked the writer, and he urgently needed to leave the car and run into a ditch.
The grave of Yevgeny Petrov at the place of his death The creator died during the Great Patriotic War. When Yevgeny was returning by plane to Moscow on July 2, 1942, the pilot, moving away from the bombardment, lowered the flight altitude and crashed into the mound. Of the several people on board, only Petrov, who at that time was 38 years old, died.
The remains of the writer were buried in the Rostov region in the village of Mankovo-Kalitvenskoye.
Bibliography
- 1922 - "Real work"
- 1924 - "Not burned out"
- 1926 - "Joys of Megas"
- 1927 - "Without a report"
- 1928 - "Twelve Chairs"
- 1928 - "Bright personality"
- 1929 - "Hat"
- 1931 - "The Golden Calf"
- 1934 - "Recipe for a Quiet Life"
- 1936 - "One-story America"
- 1942 - "At War"
- 1942 - "Front Diary"
- 1965 - "Journey to the Land of Communism" (unfinished)
Evgeny Petrovich Petrov (real name Kataev) is a satirist writer.
Contrary to all encyclopedias and his autobiography, Yevgeny Petrov was born in Odessa not on December 13, 1903, but on the same day a year earlier, in 1902, and was baptized on January 26, 1903.
He was born in the family of teacher Pyotr Vasilyevich Kataev, the son of a priest from Vyatka, and the daughter of Colonel Evgenia Bachey (according to the family version, the Bacheys were relatives of N.V. Gogol). The younger brother of the writer V.P. Kataev. After her mother's death in 1903, her sister, Elizaveta Bachey, helped raise the children.
Valentin and Eugene studied at the 5th male gymnasium. Petrov graduated from it in 1920.
In the summer of the same year, together with his brother, he was arrested by the Cheka for participating in a counter-revolutionary organization, in the fall they were released in a group of "persons not involved in the case." After that, the brothers were correspondents for the RATAU radiotelegraph agency for a short time. Then Yevgeny Kataev enters the service of the criminal investigation department and serves in the Mannheim region. In the double autobiography of Ilf and Petrov, it is said about the youngest of the co-authors: “His first literary work was the protocol for examining the corpse of an unknown man” (1929).
In 1923, E. Kataev arrived in Moscow, to his older brother, who had already successfully settled in the capital. Instead of continuing his career in the criminal investigation, Yevgeny Kataev became a journalist, pseudonym Yevgeny Petrov.
Ilya Ilf died on April 13, 1937. Contemporaries recalled Petrov's phrase: "I was at my funeral."
Petrov participated in the publication of Ilf's notebooks, wrote memoirs "My friend Ilf". It is little known that Petrov, as his friend and co-author, was fond of photography and kept notebooks.
Together with G.N. Munblitom Petrov wrote several screenplays: "A Musical History" (1940), "Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry" (1941). He was the editor of the magazines "Crocodile", "Spark". In 1940 he joined the CPSU(b). Was a war correspondent in the Finnish war.
During the Great Patriotic War, Petrov, while remaining the editor of the Ogonyok magazine, regularly traveled to the front. He visited the Northern, Western, Southern fronts, was a correspondent for Informburo, Izvestia, Pravda, wrote for American newspapers, prepared a book of essays “Moscow is behind us” (published in 1942 after the death of Petrov), wrote the script for the film "Air cabman" (the film was released in 1943).
The last surviving photograph: Petrov looks at the besieged Sevastopol from the deck of the ship.
On July 2, 1942, the plane on which Yevgeny Petrov was returning to Moscow after a business trip to Sevastopol was shot down by a German fighter. Evgeny Petrov was buried in the Mankovo-Kamevezhskaya settlement of the Chertkovsky district of the Rostov region. A monument has been erected at the site of the plane crash.
In Odessa, a memorial plaque to E.P. Petrov installed on the street. Bazarnaya, 4, on the facade of the house where the writer was born.
On April 12, 2013, a memorial plaque to the Kataev brothers was opened on the facade of the Odessa Agrarian University (Panteleimonovskaya St., 13)
Evgeny Petrovich Kataev, aka Evgeny Petrov
In Odessa, the Kataevs lived on Kanatnaya Street, and by 1920 Evgeny graduated from the 5th Odessa classical gymnasium. During his studies, his classmate was Alexander Kozachinsky, a nobleman by his father, who later wrote the adventure story "The Green Van", the prototype of the protagonist of which - the head of the Odessa district police department Volodya Patrikeev - was Yevgeny Petrov. Sasha and Zhenya were friends and fate brought two friends together in life in a bizarre way.
A. Kozachinsky, a man of adventurous warehouse and great charm, from the age of 19, having abandoned detective work in the Bolshevik criminal investigation department, led a gang of raiders operating in Odessa and its environs. Ironically, in 1922, it was Yevgeny Kataev, then an employee of the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department, who arrested him. Kozachinsky, after a chase with a shootout, hid in the attic of one of the houses, where he was discovered by a classmate. Subsequently, Yevgeny achieved a review of the criminal case and the replacement of A. Kozachinsky with an exceptional measure of punishment, execution, with imprisonment in a camp. Moreover, in the fall of 1925, Kozachinsky was amnestied. At the exit from prison, he was met by his mother and faithful friend, Yevgeny Kataev. The journalist of the Sovershenno Sekretno publication, Vadim Lebedev, concludes his essay "Green Van" with surprising facts that emphasize the inexplicability, supernaturalness of the connection that existed between these people: “1941 separated them. Petrov goes to the front as a war correspondent. Kozachinsky is sent for evacuation to Siberia for health reasons. In the autumn of 1942, having received news of the death of a friend, Kozachinsky fell ill, and a few months later, on January 9, 1943, a modest obituary appeared in the newspaper Sovetskaya Sibir: “Soviet writer Alexander Kozachinsky died”. In 1938, E. Petrov persuaded Kozachinsky, with whom they once read Mine Reed in childhood, to write the adventure story "The Green Van"
From the “Double Biographies” written jointly with Ilya Ilf, we learn that E. Petrov “... graduated from a classical gymnasium in 1920. In the same year he became a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. After that, he served as an inspector of the criminal investigation department for three years. The "literary work" was the protocol of examination of the corpse of an unknown man. In 1923, Petrov arrived in Moscow, where he continued his education, and also became an employee of the Red Pepper magazine. His older brother, writer Valentin Kataev (1897-1986) had a significant influence on Yevgeny. Kataev's wife recalled: "I have never seen such affection between the brothers as Valya and Zhenya have. Actually, Valya forced his brother to write. Every morning he started by calling him - Zhenya got up late, began to swear that he had been woken up ... " Okay, swear further, ”Valya said and hung up the phone.”
The literary community of Ilf and Petrov lasted only ten years. Since 1927, they have written numerous feuilletons, the novels "The Twelve Chairs", "The Golden Calf", the story "The Bright Personality", a cycle of short stories about the city of Kolokolamsk and the tales of the New Scheherazade. Essays on a stay in the United States in 1935 made up the book One-Storied America. American impressions gave Ilf and Petrov material for another work - a long story "Tonya".
Ilf and Petrov wrote enthusiastically, after the end of the working day in the editorial office, they returned home at two in the morning. The novel "The Twelve Chairs" was published in 1928 - first in a magazine, and then as a separate book. And immediately became extremely popular. The story about the adventures of the charming adventurer and swindler Ostap Bender and his companion, the former marshal of the nobility, Kisa Vorobyaninov, captivated with brilliant dialogues, vivid characters, and a subtle satire on Soviet reality and the philistine. Laughter was the authors' weapon against vulgarity, stupidity and idiotic pathos. The book quickly sold out into quotes:
- “All smuggling is done in Odessa, on Malaya Arnautskaya Street”,
- "Dusya, I am a man tormented by Narzan",
- "A sultry woman is a poet's dream",
- "Trading here is inappropriate",
- "Money in the morning - chairs in the evening"
- "To whom the mare is the bride",
- "Quickly only cats will be born",
- "Giant of thought, father of Russian democracy"
Odessa, a monument to Ilf and Petrov opened in the Sculpture Garden of the Literary Museum.
It turned out to be impossible to finish what he started with Ilf alone, although shortly before Ilf's death, the co-authors had already tried to work separately - on "One-Story America". But then, working in different parts of Moscow and even not seeing each other every day, the writers continued to live a common creative life. Each thought was the fruit of mutual disputes and discussions, each image, each replica had to pass the judgment of a comrade. With the death of Ilf, the writer "Ilf and Petrov" died.
E. Petrov in the book "My friend Ilf". I wanted to talk about the time and about myself. About myself - in this case it would mean: about Ilf and about himself. His intentions went far beyond the personal. Here, anew, in different features and with the involvement of other material, the era already captured in their joint works was to be reflected. Reflections on literature, on the laws of creativity, on humor and satire. From the articles that he published under the title "From the Memoirs of Ilf", as well as from the plans and sketches found in his archive, it is clear that the book would have been generously saturated with humor. The factual material, which abounds in this work that has just begun, is extremely rich.
As a correspondent for Pravda, E. Petrov had to travel a lot around the country. In 1937 he was in the Far East. Impressions from this trip were reflected in the essays "Young Patriots", "Old Paramedic". At this time, Petrov also writes literary critical articles, and is also engaged in a lot of organizational work. He was deputy editor of the Literaturnaya Gazeta, in 1940 he became the editor of the Ogonyok magazine and brought genuine creative passion into his editorial work.
In 1940-1941. E. Petrov turns to the genre of film comedy. He wrote five scripts: "Air Carrier", "Quiet Ukrainian Night", "Restless Man", "Musical History" and "Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry" - the last three co-authored with G. Moonblit.
"Musical History", "Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry" and "Air Carrier" were filmed.
From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, E. Petrov became a correspondent for the Soviet Information Bureau. His front-line essays appeared in Pravda, Izvestia, Ogonyok, and Krasnaya Zvezda. He sent telegraphic correspondence to the USA. Knowing America well, able to speak with ordinary Americans, he did a lot during the war years to convey to the American people the truth about the heroic deed of the Soviet people.
In the autumn of 1941, these were essays about the defenders of Moscow. E. Petrov was at the front line, appeared in the liberated villages, when the ashes were still smoking there, talked with the prisoners.
When the Nazis were driven away from Moscow, E. Petrov went to the Karelian front. In his correspondence, he spoke about the heroism and courage of the defenders of the Soviet Arctic.
E. Petrov obtained permission to go to the besieged Sevastopol with difficulty. The city was blocked from the air and from the sea. But our ships went there and planes flew, delivering ammunition, taking out the wounded and residents. The leader of the destroyers "Tashkent" (he was called the "blue cruiser"), on which E. Petrov was located, successfully reached the goal when a German bomb hit him on the way back. And all the time, while the ships that came to the rescue were filming the wounded, children and women, "Tashkent" was under fire.
1942, E. Petrov on the leader "Tashkent" broke into the besieged Sevastopol. From left to right - E. Petrov and the commander of "Tashkent" V. N. Eroshenko
Petrov refused to leave the ship. He remained with the crew until arriving at the port, being on deck all the time and helping to fight for the preservation of the ship. “When on the day of departure I entered in the morning on the veranda on which Petrov was sleeping,” said Admiral I.S. Isakov, “the whole veranda and all the furniture on it were covered with written sheets of paper. Each was gently pressed down with a pebble. , along with his field bag, fell into the water during the battle." Here was his last, unfinished essay "Breakthrough of the Blockade".
Returning from the front, on July 2, 1942, the plane on which front-line journalist E. Petrov was returning to Moscow from Sevastopol was shot down by a German fighter over the territory of the Rostov region, near the village of Mankovo. He was not even 40 years old.
In memory of Evgeny Petrov, Konstantin Simonov dedicated the poem "It's not true, a friend does not die ..."
Evgeny Petrov was awarded the Order of Lenin and a medal. In Odessa, where satirical writers were born and began their career, there is Ilf and Petrov Street.
The writer E. Petrov grew up two wonderful sons. We know the cameraman Petr Kataev (1930-1986), who made the main films of T. Lioznova. These are the well-known to us “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha”, “We, the Undersigned”, “Carnival”. TV series Day by Day. I. Kataev is the author of music for S. Gerasimov's films "By the Lake" and "To Love a Man".
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Evgeny Petrov (pseudonym of Evgeny Petrovich Kataev). Born on November 30 (December 13), 1902 in Odessa - died on July 2, 1942 in the Rostov region. Russian Soviet writer, journalist, screenwriter. Co-author of Ilya Ilf. Chief editor of the Ogonyok magazine since 1938.
Evgeny Petrovich Petrov (real name Kataev) was born on November 30 (December 13), 1902 in Odessa in the family of a history teacher. The younger brother of the writer Valentin Kataev.
In Odessa, the Kataevs lived on Kanatnaya Street.
In 1920, Evgeny graduated from the 5th Odessa classical gymnasium, where Alexander Kozachinsky was his classmate and best friend (the boys even took an oath of fraternal fidelity: they cut their fingers with a piece of glass and mixed the blood). Subsequently, Kozachinsky wrote the adventure story "The Green Van", the prototype of the protagonist of which - Volodya Patrikeev - was Yevgeny Petrov.
For some time, Yevgeny Petrov worked as a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency.
For three years he served as an inspector of the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department (in Ilf and Petrov's "Double Autobiography" (1929) it is said about this period of life: "His first literary work was the protocol of examination of the corpse of an unknown man").
In 1922, during a chase with a shootout, he personally detained his friend Alexander Kozachinsky, who led a gang of raiders. Subsequently, he achieved a review of his criminal case and the replacement of A. Kozachinsky with "the highest measure of social protection" (execution) by imprisonment in a camp. This story later formed the basis of the already mentioned story by Kozachinsky "The Green Van", on which films of the same name were made in 1959 and 1983.
In 1923, Petrov came to Moscow, where he became an employee of the Krasny Pepper magazine.
In 1926, he came to work for the Gudok newspaper, where he arranged A. Kozachinsky, who had been released by that time under an amnesty, as a journalist.
Evgeny Petrov was greatly influenced by his brother Valentin Kataev. Valentina Kataeva's wife recalled: "I have never seen such affection between the brothers as Valya and Zhenya have. Actually, Valya forced his brother to write. Every morning he started by calling him - Zhenya got up late, began to swear that he had been woken up ... “Okay, continue cursing,” said Valya and hung up.
In 1927, joint work on the novel "The Twelve Chairs" began the creative community of Yevgeny Petrov and (who also worked in the newspaper "Gudok"). Subsequently, in collaboration with Ilya Ilf, the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Golden Calf (1931), the fantastic story The Bright Personality (filmed), the short stories Unusual Stories from the Life of the City of Kolokolamsk (1928) and A Thousand and one day, or the New Scheherazade" (1929), the story "One-storied America" (1937).
In 1932-1937, Ilf and Petrov wrote feuilletons for the Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta newspapers and the Krokodil magazine.
In 1935-1936 they made a trip to the United States, which resulted in the book One-Story America (1937). The books of Ilf and Petrov were repeatedly staged and filmed.
In 1938 he persuaded his friend A. Kozachinsky to write the story "The Green Van".
Petrov made a lot of efforts to publish Ilf's notebooks, he conceived a large work "My friend Ilf".
In 1939-1942, Petrov worked on the novel Journey to the Land of Communism, in which he described the USSR in 1963 (excerpts were published posthumously in 1965).
During the Great Patriotic War, Petrov became a front-line correspondent. He died on July 2, 1942 - the plane on which he was returning to Moscow from Novorossiysk was shot down by a German fighter over the territory of the Rostov region, near the village of Mankovo.
A monument has been erected at the site of the plane crash.
Yevgeny Petrov was married to Valentina Leontievna Grunzaid, from the Russified Germans.
Sons - cameraman Pyotr Kataev and composer Ilya Kataev.
Bibliography of Evgeny Petrov:
Joys of Megas, 1926
No report, 1927
At war, 1942
Front diary, 1942
Air carrier. Screenplays, 1943
Island of the world. Play, 1947
Unfinished novel "Journey to the Land of Communism".
Screenplays by Evgeny Petrov:
Sound film script (together with Ilya Ilf), 1933, was not staged
Circus (together with Ilya Ilf and Valentin Kataev, uncredited), staged in 1936 by G. Alexandrov
Musical History (together with Georgy Moonblit), staged in 1940 by A. Ivanovsky and G. Rappaport
Anton Ivanovich gets angry (together with Georgy Moonblit), staged in 1941 by A. Ivanovsky
Air cab, delivered in 1943 by G. Rappaport.
Petrov Evgeny (real name and surname Evgeny Petrovich Kataev) (1903-1942), writer, journalist.
Born December 13, 1903 in Odessa in the family of a history teacher. In 1919 he graduated from the classical gymnasium. He worked as a correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency.
In June 1921 he entered the Odessa Criminal Investigation Department. For the successful fight against the bandits, he was awarded a watch. Work in the police turned out to be just an episode in the biography of Yevgeny Petrov.
In 1923 he moved to Moscow and became a journalist. He worked as an editor-in-chief in the Red Pepper magazine, collaborated in the Gudok newspaper. In the capital, he met Ilya Ilf. Together they wrote the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Golden Calf (1931).
These works became a kind of encyclopedia of Soviet society in the late 30s - early 40s. More than one generation of readers reveled in the adventures of the resilient Ostap Bender. Work in the Odessa police brought Yevgeny Petrov invaluable benefits in creating the image of the "great schemer".
Ilf and Petrov also jointly created the story "A Bright Personality" (1928), "Unusual Stories from the Life of the City of Kolokolamsk" and "1001 Days, or New Scheherazade" (both 1929).
In 1940-1941. the writer headed the Ogonyok magazine. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a war correspondent for the Soviet Information Bureau. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
In May 1942, on the destroyer Tashkent, Petrov arrived in the besieged Sevastopol. The plane on which the writer was returning to Moscow crashed on July 2, 1942.
For a long time, the works of Ilf and Petrov were not reprinted. Only in 1961 was a five-volume collection of their works published. During the 60-70s. the novels of the co-authors have been reprinted more than 20 times.
