For other uses, see The Twelve Chairs (disambiguation).
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The Twelve Chairs
Ilya Ilf reads the novel, 1930
Author
Ilf and Petrov
Original title
Двенадцать стульев
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
Publication date
1928
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, tr. Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931. The novel has been adapted to other media, primarily film.
family jewellery was hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of thetwelvechairs from the family's dining-room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal...
Бендер) is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels TheTwelveChairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written...
Tim Brooke-Taylor and Lionel Jeffries. It is based on the 1928 satirical novel TheTwelveChairs by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, which has been adapted...
profile for their two satirical novels: TheTwelveChairs (1928) and its sequel, The Little Golden Calf (1931). The two texts are connected by their main...
Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks’s TheTwelveChairs (1970), Dracula (1979), Masters of the Universe (1987), Dave (1993), The Ninth Gate (1999), Good Night...
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of the most successful film directors of the 1970s. His films include The Producers (1967), TheTwelveChairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein...
on the Moon (1963), Mel Brooks' The TwelveChairs (1970) and Flight of the Doves (1971), in which Moody shared the screen with Oliver! co-star Jack Wild...
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regular in Mel Brooks's films. He appeared in TheTwelveChairs, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, History of the World, Part I, Spaceballs, and Robin Hood:...
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973), Ilf and Petrov's TheTwelveChairs (1971), Nikolai Gogol's Incognito from St. Petersburg...
director. In the English-speaking world, he was best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films, The Producers (1967), TheTwelveChairs (1970) and History...
"TheTwelveChairs", poet and potboiler Nikifor Lyapis, who used pseudonym Trubetskoy. On 17 March 2014 frontman Siarhei Mikhalok announced that the band...
survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of theTwelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus. In 2035, James Cole is a prisoner living...
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