In Odessa, there is another monument on the grounds of “12 chairs”

On the street of Ilf and Petrov can now find “the key to the apartment where the money is.”

13.04.18 683220

Friday, March 13, in Odessa opened a monument “the key to the apartment where the money is” was talking about the hero of the novel by Ilf and Petrov “12 chairs” Ostap Bender. About it reports the local Duma edition.

New art object titled “Key recognition” is set on the street Ilfa and Petrov, 4. Before the opening the organizers have a role play with the characters of the novel.

  • See ALSO: “Humor, too, is black” – artist Oleksa Mann

“This is a key recognition of the talent of the great Odessa writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, famed Odessa. The idea of the monument came at the beginning of this year, when many years later I again picked up the brilliant “12 chairs”. I wanted to capture their emotions and to Express them in this sculpture,” – said the author of the monument to Andrei Lubov.

We will remind, in Odessa in 1999, was a bronze “12 chairs” – a monument to the writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov and their famous works.