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Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich

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Petrov, Yevgeny Petrovich (yĭvgā`nyē pētrô`vĭch pētrôf`), 1903–42, Russian writer and journalist; brother of the dramatist Valentin P. Katayev Katayev, Valentin Petrovich , 1897–1986, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Katayev's novels portray almost the entire range of Soviet life, from the period of the New Economic Policy (The Embezzlers, 1926, tr.
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. His original name was Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev. Petrov collaborated with Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf Ilf, Ilya Arnoldovich , 1897–1937, Russian humorist whose original name was Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg. In all his writing he collaborated with Yevgeny Petrovich Katayev (1903–42), who used the pseudonym Yevgeny Petrov and was a younger brother of the
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 on various satirical novels, including The Little Golden Calf (tr. 1933). After Ilf's death in 1937, Petrov became a journalist and later a war correspondent. He was killed during World War II during the siege of Sevastopol.


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