The twelve chairs

"The twelve chairs" (1928) — novel, written almost a century ago, still remains at the hearing. A story about how Bender along with his "partner" by kitty Vorobyaninov trying to find the diamonds of Madame Petukhova, hidden in one of 12 chairs furniture set has the fame of a truly "popular classics". The names of the heroes are two charming young adventurers became a household name, and the novel went on quotes, after hundreds of successful editions and translations into other languages. The book, which still not solved until the end: do the characters have prototypes, who hides behind the figure of Ostap Bender? Perhaps these mysteries will forever remain a mystery. And while "the meeting continues, gentlemen of the jury"!