The purchase of a new Ford, two weeks in Hollywood, the script for "The Twelve Chairs" commissioned by a three-time Oscar winner Lewis Milestone and other fascinating details of the journey to America of Soviet writers Ilf and Petrov Foggy New York in the morning as seen by Ilya Ilf from his room September 19, 1935, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov as correspondents of the newspaper "Pravda" went on a four-month tour through America. In a "Ford" bought in New York, writers crossed the country, visited the Henry Ford factories and Mark Twain's homeland, the Indian villages of Santa Fe and Taos, inspected the Hoover dam (then the Boulder Dam), drove through the Colorado Desert of Arizona, visited the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, spent two weeks in Hollywood and returned to New York through the southern states . Ilf wrote down his impressions in the diary, sent daily detailed long letters to his wife Mary , shor...
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