Yevgeny Petrov, also named Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov () was the pen name of Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev (; in
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
– July 2, 1942)
who was a popular
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
author in the 1920s and 1930s. He often worked in collaboration with
Ilya Ilf
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (born Iehiel-Leyb Aryevich Faynzilberg, russian: Иехи́ел-Лейб Арьевич Фа́йнзильберг) ( in Odessa – 13 April 1937, Moscow), was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who us ...
. As
Ilf and Petrov
Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Feinsilberg or russian: Илья Арнольдович Файнзильберг, 1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Katayev or russian: Евгений Петрович Катаев, 1902–1942 ...
, they wrote ''
The Twelve Chairs
''The Twelve Chairs'' ( rus, Двенадцать стульев, Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical novel by the Odesan Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden ...
'', released in 1928, and its sequel, ''
The Little Golden Calf
''The Little Golden Calf'' (russian: Золотой телёнок, ''Zolotoy telyonok'') is a satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors c ...
'', released in 1931.
Biography
Following
Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Petrov became a war correspondent. He was killed in a plane crash while returning from
besieged Sevastopol. The short film ''
Envelope
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Traditional envelopes are made from sheets of paper cut to one of three shapes: a rhombus, a shor ...
'' was dedicated to him.
He was the brother of
Valentin Kataev
Valentin Petrovich Kataev (russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Ката́ев; also spelled Katayev or Kataiev; – 12 April 1986) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing ...
.
References
1902 births
1942 deaths
Writers from Odesa
People from Kherson Governorate
Soviet short story writers
20th-century short story writers
Soviet novelists
Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
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Soviet civilians killed in World War II
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1942
Soviet war correspondents
War correspondents of World War II
Journalists killed while covering World War II
Ogoniok editors
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