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Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov (yĬvgā´nyē pētrô´vĬch pētrôf´), 1903–42, Russian writer and journalist; brother of the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev. Petrov collaborated with Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf on various satirical novels, including The Little Golden Calf (tr. 1933). After Ilf's death in 1937, Petrov became a journalist and later a war correspondent. He was killed during World War II during the siege of Sevastopol.
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Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich
Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov (yĬvgā´nyē pētrô´vĬch pētrôf´), 1903–42, Russian writer...the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev. Petrov collaborated with Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf on various satirical... |
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Katayev, Yevgeny Petrovich
Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev: see Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich. |
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Katayev, Valentin Petrovich
Valentin Petrovich Katayev (vəlyĬntyēn´ pētrô´vĬch kətī´əf), 1897...Grass of Oblivion (1967, tr. 1969). His younger brother, Yevgeny, collaborating with Ilya Ilf under the name Yevgeny Petrovich Petrov. |
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Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich
...original name was Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg. In all his writing he collaborated with Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev (1903–42), who used the pseudonym Yevgeny Petrov and was a younger brother of the writer Valentin Katayev. The two wrote satiric stories... |
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