At the beginning of 1920-ies in Odessa, formed a literary society “group of poets”. Gradually its members, Yuri Olesha, Eduard Bagritsky, Valentin Kataev, and others have begun to move to Moscow. Among them were Ilya Ilf then half of the most famous in the history of Soviet literary Duo, and an independent unit.
it is Interesting that Ilf and Petrov moved to Moscow from Odessa in 1923, but from time to time their paths crossed. In 1928, published their first joint novel “12 chairs”. The capital was conquered. “Ah, The Kitchen! Aren’t you ashamed? Petrovka is, and Olhovki cannot be seen” — these ironic lines of Alexander Bezymensky immediately became known in Moscow literary circles.
Although Infoway so far not named any one of the streets of Moscow, in the capital there are many places associated with the name of the writer. In almost 15 years of living in the capital of Ilya Ilf changed several addresses — close the closet next to the printing press to the prestigious spacious apartment in the House of writers. About Moscow life, Ilf, its rooms, apartments and famous neighbors — the joint submission and the Agency “Moscow”.
In Moscow, Ilya Ilf immediately faced with the proverbial About a month he lived some Vlasova, whose shooting angle (the address of this apartment is not preserved). February 28, 1923, he wrote in a letter to the bride Marusya: “Email me at new address — Chistye Prudy — Myl’nikov per., № 4, room 2B” (here the writer made a mistake — in fact, the apartment had room 2A).
Ilya Ilf at sheltered old friend from Odessa and the elder brother of his future coauthor Yevgeny Petrov writer Valentin Kataev (real name Petrov, Kataev), who in 1922 first of the “group of poets” moved to Moscow. In those years, apartment in Myl’nikov pereulok was home to many writers, of Odessa, who came in search of a better life in the capital. — later recalled Valentin Kataev.
All 1923 Ilf acquainted with Moscow. He walked around the streets of the capital, went with friends to the movies and museums. About his impressions of the capital Ilya Ilf told in countless letters home. In one of them he writes: “Throw Kozlovskaya street where You live, because it makes no sense to live on it, if there is a Pure ponds”. In another letter, he said the same thing a little more seriously:
in the Spring of 1923 Ilya Ilf went to work in the newspaper “Whistle”, which he wrote for his fellow Odessans. Among the people with whom he was acquainted this work was Mikhail Bulgakov.
in the Summer of 1923 Ilf Yuri Olesha (he also lived in Kataev) moved directly to the editorial office, which housed the dormitory for��mines Newspapers. The inhabitants of Odessa went to a small room, which barely had enough space to sleep two. excerpts from which were read to his neighbor.
in a few months, living conditions Ilf and Olesha has improved a bit: in the winter both had a separate room. Evgeny Petrov later commented on the dwelling of his collaborator:
the Ilf in letters called my room and said “her warm breath.” Later impressions of this place he moved to the pages of the novel “12 chairs”. However, individual housing is allowed to fulfill an old dream and moved to Moscow Marusya, who became his wife.
the Building, which housed the editorial office of “Horn” to the present day have not survived. Today in its place is a building built in 2004.
In July 1924 Elijah and Mary again changed residence and moved into a house on the corner of Sretensky pereulok and Bolshoi Lubyanka. About this apartment Evgeny Petrov recalled even more bleak: “a Terrible apartment near Sretensky gates. At night in the corridor, turned into the kitchen,
Together with the Ilf in the same house the room was rented and Yuri Olesha with his wife, Olga Suok. The writers lived so poor that they had to share not only everyday life, but also the only parade that every time they have carefully carried and transferred to each other as needed. However, the magnificence of the pants noticed only the Ilf and Olesha. Once their wife is cleaning house and taking pants over the cloth, to gloss rubbed the floor with them in a communal apartment.
this house is associated another episode: one night to visit the Ilf and his neighbors came by Valentin Kataev, and he brought with him of Sergei Yesenin. That night in the common room of a communal apartment, the poet read to the inhabitants of the house in Sretensky pereulok his poem “Black man”. tipsy Yesenin something not shared with one of the listeners. During the scuffle the poet down the shelves and broke the vase — then they could bring from home.
unfortunately, the building in Sretensky pereulok, did not survive: in 2003 it was demolished. Today in its place is a new house.
At the Sretensky lane the Ilf have lived for about five years. In 1929 they moved to a new home in Simonovska the passage, which was built by the railway Ministry specially for the employees of the newspaper “Gudok”. June 21 the family of Ilf entered in the spacious 25-metre room on the sixth floor, offering a wonderful view of the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. This apartment dedicated to the exhibition “Ilya Ilf — spelled out in Moscow!” open in the Museum M. A. Bulgakov.
during this period, the Ilf started taking pictures, he always took the camera off of people, dOMA and the streets of Moscow. A new hobby took up so much time that from-for it on a the year delayed the release of the novel “the Golden calf”. Evgeny Petrov even jokingly complained to friends:
the Camera the writer picked up on December 5, 1931 — the day when the capital was blown up the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Ilf was able to do a series of shots, one of which ended Today, these and other pictures made by the writer, can be seen at the exhibition “Ilya Ilf — the Odessa Muscovite! A writer with a camera” in the Center Gilyarovskogo.
In the early 1930s in Moscow there was a rumor that the writers will build a separate building. The rumor was true. Specifically for this project reconstructed and combined the two two-story historic mansion in Nadolinski lane (house 3 and 5). In addition, the buildings were so-called to two old floors, the builders added three more. Writers, most of whom lived in cramped communal apartments, gladly stood in line for apartments.
In the updated house of Elijah and Mary moved in September 1933, a year and a half in a one-bedroom apartment Ilf brought their newborn daughter to Alexander — pigou, as it was called young parents.
the neighbors Ilya Ilf was not only Evgeny Petrov, but other well-known Soviet writers. Many of them in this house are connected both happy and tragic history: he wrote the famous poem “We live under him not sensing the country” and hence, too, in the night from 16 to 17 may 1934, it took the NKVD. In this house he spent the last years of his life Mikhail Bulgakov.
the Building in Namochenko the alley to the present day is not preserved — it was demolished in the second half of 1970-ies. Now in its place stands an outbuilding. That once here stood the building in which he lived all the light of Soviet literature, resembles a pair of rows of bricks on the wall of a neighboring house — in this place took place a jumper wire between two buildings.
some time Later, after the reconstruction of the building in the alley Namochenko the Union of Soviet writers received a plot of land near the Tretyakov gallery. There for several years, was built a monumental devyatietazhnyj 1937 moved in the first residents.
Among the authors who have received apartments in the new house, was Ilya Ehrenburg, Konstantin Paustovsky, Agniya Barto, Boris Pasternak, and many others. Had to move here and Mikhail Bulgakov, but at the last moment deleted from the queue. The size of the apartment, floor and even the entrance is depended on the merit of the writer to the country. The main considered entrance # 3 (there is, for example, settled Viktor Shklovsky and Valentin ToAtaev). Ilya Ilf got a two-bedroom apartment in the second entrance on the fourth floor.
the Family of Ilf few weeks spent on the move, and Maroussia Ilf in its records noted the date of settlement, March 8, 1937. The family was filled with new plans and hopes, kotorymi in 1920-e years the writer was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and in 1935, during a trip in the USA, the disease again made itself felt. 13 APR 1937 Ilya Ilf did not.
