Date: 2019-09-16 11:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kore
Also also, omg

https://www.rferl.org/a/ilf_petrov_adventure_look_back_soviet_writers_1935_us-trip/2261530.html

A photo of Ilf and Petrov in New York in 1935 (from Aleksandra Ilf archive)
Aleksandra Ilf, the only child of Ilya Ilf, was only a few months old when her father took off for the United States. At the time -- with very few baby-care items available in Moscow -- her mother asked Ilf to bring baby supplies that could last for two years.

"Ilf brought just a few things back from the U.S. because they had very little time [to shop]," Aleksandra recalls. "Besides they were planning to have a stop-over in Paris where his brother's wife could have bought all that was needed."

Later, when Aleksandra Ilf would become the guardian of Ilf and Petrov's literary legacy, she would carry a business card that read "The daughter of Ilf and Petrov."


THE DUDES IN NY https://gdb.rferl.org/A94A0EEA-15B0-474C-94BF-5FE10D400B1D_mw800_s.jpg
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