About the book: 1961 / The stories and feuilletons of Ilf and Petrov, collected in this volume, were written in the three-year period that separated the novel " Twelve Chairs" from the novel "The Golden Calf". Most of the works published here first appeared on the pages of the weekly satirical magazine "Eccentric", in which writers collaborated throughout its existence, from December 1928 to March 1930.