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About the product «Twelve Chairs» (1927) is a novel written almost a century ago, but it seems that quite recently. He is quoted by everyone, even those who have not read a page of the text and have not watched a single film adaptation, and there were already quite a few of them. Ostap Bender, the Great Combinator, has become a household name, and monuments are erected to him throughout Russia. The story of how Bender, together with his «partner» Kisa Vorobyaninov, are trying to find Madame Petukhova’s diamonds hidden in one of the 12 chairs of the furniture set, has become a truly «folk classic.» although it is rather difficult to convey the humor with which this book, amazing in every sense, is oversaturated. A book that has not yet been fully solved: why Valentin Kataev offered this story to two little-known journalists from Odessa, do the heroes have prototypes who are hiding behind the figure of Ostap Bender? Perhaps these riddles will remain mysteries forever. And «the session continues, gentlemen of the jury»! …
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