Ilf and Petrov
From the late 1920s to 1937, the co-authors wrote several theatrical plays and screenplays, as well as many humorous short stories and satirical articles in the magazines: "Chudak", "30 days", "Krokodil", "Ogoniok", the newspapers: "Pravda", "Literaturnaya Gazeta". In the first years of joint creativity Ilf and Petrov published their stories and satirical under parodic pseudonyms: "Tolstoevsky" (composed of the names of writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), "Don Busilio" (from Don Basilio, character in the opera "The Barber of Seville", and the Russian verb "busa" – scandal, noise), "Cold philosopher" and others.