Interesting facts about one of the founders of Ostap Bender

• Interesting facts about one of the founders of Ostap Bender

81-year, April 13, 1937 passed away writer, whose name is known to everyone - Ilya Ilf. In collaboration with Yevgeny Petrov, they wrote novels that immortalized them, - "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf", and it is also a well known fact. But on the real name of the writer, the reasons that prompted him to take a pseudonym, the author of the idea of ​​the jewels hidden in chairs, as well as to why his life was cut short at age 39, many people do not realize.

Real name of Ilya Ilf Arnol'dovich - Jehiel Leib Arevich Fainzilberg. He was born in 1897 in Odessa in the family of a bank employee. Before going into literary activities, he worked in the drawing office at the telephone exchange, at an aircraft factory, a factory of hand grenades was a statistician and buhgaletrom. His first published works were poems, which he signed female pseudonym. On how he became Ilf, later he told his daughter Alexandra: "As a journalist, he signed his publication so that it is shorter. His real name - Fainzilberg - for newspaper articles well, very long. Often put "Ilya F", "IF", "Falberg" and then turned "Ilf". According to another version, the name was an acronym composed of the first letters of his real name, which corresponds to the Jewish tradition of registered abbreviations. The writer had other aliases - as a literary critic, he was known by the name of Anton extreme, literary activities, he also used the pseudonyms VI Falberg Anton importantly, IA Pseldonimov and A. natives. And after that, they began to cooperate with Yevgeny Petrov, first published his works as Don Buzilov, cold and philosopher F. Tolstoevsky.

Family Ilya Ilf

Ilya Ilf had three brothers, who were also known under pseudonyms. Father dreamed of to senior Saul worked as an accountant, but after graduating from high school and business school, he became an artist, taking the pseudonym Sandro Fasini. Over time, he went to France, where an exhibition of his works took place in the fashionable salons, and in 1944 he was killed in Auschwitz. The second son, Moshe, Aharon, also graduated from the Commercial College, and also moved into the artists, which was a big disappointment to his father. In artistic circles knew him under pseudonyms Mi-Fa and IAF. father's joy knew no bounds when the third son Jehiel Leib, fulfilled his dream and changed a lot of professions, became a bookkeeper. He even took finschetotdel Special Provincial Food Commission to supply the Red Army. His experience in prodkomissii he later uses to describe the office "Hercules" in the "Golden Calf". At 23, Jehiel Leib suddenly told his father that he intends to engage in literary activities and dropped the service. Only younger brother Benjamin fulfilled his father's dream - he kept a generic name and got a profession that has no relationship to art - he became an engineer-surveyor.

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

Their joint literary work of Evgeny Petrov started in 1927 and grew into a strong friendship. They were quite different both in appearance and in character, but the tandem was so harmonious that they are often not perceived separately from each other. Ilf jokes on this subject: "tantalized doubt - if we Zhenya on contentment as one man enroll?". Unlike his friend, Ilya Ilf had a sharp and uncompromising character. Kataev Olesha and shared their impressions of his performances in the evenings Odessa "Team poets": "It disturbed us with their scrutinizing eyes, attentive judge ... Sometimes he made brief remarks, often ironic and damning his marksmanship. It was a clear and strong critical mind, the sober voice of a great literary taste. It was truly a judge, whose verdict was always fair, though not always pleasant. "

Ilf and Petrov on Gogol Boulevard. Winter 1932

Writing together they offered the elder brother Yevgeny Petrov, Valentin Kataev "I will Dumas father, and you shall be my blacks. I'll give you a topic, you will write novels, and I'll edit them later. I go through a couple of times on your manuscript master's hand and ready ... ". However, "negros" soon became independent and very successful writer who turned the idea of ​​Kataeva chairs and hidden jewels in the real masterpiece of Ostap Bender.

Another passion of the writer was a photo

In addition to literary work, Ilya Ilf was another great passion - photography. In 1929 he had a camera, and since then he never parted with him. Evgeny Petrov jokingly complained: "I was in the savings bank, eight hundred rubles, and was a wonderful collaborator. Now Ilya became interested in photography. I lent him my eight hundred rubles for the purchase of the camera. And what? I do not have any more money, no co ... My former co-only shoots, shows and prints. Prints, displays and removes ... ". About 200 works accidentally discovered after the death of his daughter Ilf, publish them in a book, "Ilya Ilf - the photographer." Ilfov family for some time lived in front of the temple of Christ the Savior, and the writer of the apartment window depicted in the photo before the destruction of the temple at the time of the explosion and after.

The three and a half months in 1935 by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov held in America. During this time they had double-cross it from end to end. His impressions of the trip they described in a series of stories "one-storey America". During the trip, Ilya Ilf opened old pulmonary tuberculosis, which he was diagnosed in the early 1920s. The disease led to his premature death April 13, 1937

Ilya Ilf and Maria Tarasenko

In the writer's life was the only love - his wife Maria Tarasenko. After the death of Ilya Ilf she is no longer married, until the day while remaining faithful to the memory of her husband.