12 chairs. Ilf I.A., Petrov E.P.

“12 chairs” (1927) - a novel written almost a century ago, but it seems that recently. He is quoted by everyone, even those who did not read the page of the text and did not look at a single adaptation. Ostap Bender, a great combinator, became a household character, and throughout Russia he was erected monuments. The story about how Bender, along with their “partner” Kisoy Vorobyaninov, is trying to find diamonds Madame Petukhova, hidden in one of 12 chairs of a furniture set, became truly “folk classics.”

Roman was reprinted in Russia almost 200 times , it is translated into many languages, although it is quite difficult to convey the humor to which this amazing book is oversaturated in every sense.