I. Ilf and E. Petrov - Twelve chairs. Gift book bound in leather

"The Twelve Chairs" is a novel written almost a century ago, and it seems that quite recently. Everyone quotes it, even those who have not read a single page of the text and have not watched a single film adaptation, and there have already been many of them. Ostap Bender, the Great combinator, has become a household name, and monuments are erected to him all over Russia. The story of how Bender, along with his "partner" Kisa Vorobyaninov, are trying to find the diamonds of Madame Petukhova, hidden in one of the 12 chairs of the furniture set, has become a truly "folk classic". The novel has been reprinted in Russia almost 200 times, it has been translated into many languages, although it is quite difficult to convey the humor with which this amazing book is saturated in every sense. The book, which is still not fully solved: why did Valentin Kataev offer this story to two little-known journalists originally from Odessa, do the characters have prototypes, who is hiding behind the figure of Ostap Bender? Perhaps these riddles will remain riddles forever. And "the meeting continues, gentlemen of the jury"!