num_pages: 376
description: Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely heroes from the provinces to Moscow to the wilds of Soviet Georgia and the Trans-caucasus mountains; on their quest they encounter a wide variety of from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and ineffective than the one before.
language: French
title: Les Douze Chaises
titlecomplete: Les Douze Chaises
characters: Зося Синицкая, Остап Бендер, Михаил Самуэлевич Паниковский, Шура Балаганов, Александр Иванович Корейко, Адам Козлевич, Ипполит Матвеевич Воробьянинов
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 22770
places: U.S.S.R.
series: Ostap Bender
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“
category: Преводна художествена литература
publisher: Parangon