"The Twelve Chairs" is a satirical novel written by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov in 1927. The book recounts the adventures of the con artist Ostap Bender and his companion, Kisa Vorobyaninov, who are searching for treasures hidden in one of the twelve chairs of a furniture set. The action takes place in the USSR in the late 1920s, and the plot is full of vivid characters and satirical sketches of Soviet life.