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      • The era is the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and a dying woman wants to clear her conscience and reveal her greatest sin. As thousands of the nobility are fleeing for their lives, she decides to hide her family's fortune inside the lining of a set of handcrafted chairs.
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  2. Brooks' story is based on the Russian classic about a man whose mother confesses, on her deathbed, to having hidden the family fortune in the seat of one of a matched set of 12 chairs. The idea was to hide the jewels from the recently victorious revolution.

  3. The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев, romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair.

    • Ilf and Petrov
    • 1928
  4. Jun 28, 2016 · “I want to grovel at your feet! I must grovel at your feet!” exclaims Father Fyodor. Madame Bruns replies, “No groveling! There will be no groveling in this house! This is a S…

  5. Plot. In the Soviet Union in 1927, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, an impoverished aristocrat from Imperial Russia now working as a local village bureaucrat, is summoned to the deathbed of his mother-in-law.

  6. May 30, 2024 · Set in 1920s Soviet Russia, The Twelve Chairs follows the hilarious misadventures of a former aristocrat, Ippolit Vorobyaninov, and a charismatic opportunist, Ostap Bender, as they embark on a quest to find a set of valuable chairs that have hidden treasures sewn into their upholstery.

  7. Mar 17, 2024 · The plot revolves around the search for the titular twelve chairs, in which a certain noblewoman hid her precious family jewels out of fear of the Bolsheviks. On her deathbed, she reveals this secret to her son, Ippolit Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody).

  8. In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.