An edition from the "Kaleidoscope Lite" series. Printed in 12pt type with wide line spacing for maximum readability. Unabridged. Modern translation. The publication is supplemented with an annotation that examines ten interesting facts about Ilf and Petrov.

A former wealthy man, a socialite, and a marshal of the nobility, Ippolit Vorobyaninov became an ordinary registry office clerk in a small town after the revolution. He has not yet forgotten his old habits and often dreams of his former life. One day, the steady pace of his life is disrupted - his dying mother-in-law told Vorobyaninov about a vast fortune hidden by her during the revolution in one of the chairs of a drawing-room suite.

He immediately rushes off to search, together with the 'grand schemer' he met, a conman and lover of banknotes named Ostap Bender. The treasure will not be easy to find, but gripped by a passion for wealth, Bender and Vorobyaninov will stop at nothing...