Ilya Arnoldovič Iljf (1897–1937), writer, playwright, screenwriter, photographer and journalist, wrote a significant part of his prose in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrovič Petrov (1902–1942), also a writer, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, including the novels Twelve Chairs (1928) and its sequel The Golden Calf (1931) and a number of film scripts, the novella collection One Thousand and One Days or New Scheherazade (1929) and Unusual stories from the life of the town of Kolokolamsk (1928–1929), essays and vaudeville.