From the novel "The Twelve Chairs" (1928) by Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942). The 22nd chapter of the novel, titled "Cannibal Ellochka", begins like this: "William Shakespeare's dictionary, according to researchers, is 12,000 words. The dictionary of a negro from the cannibalistic tribe "Mumbo-Yumbo" is 300 words. Ellochka Shchukina easily and freely managed thirty. The dictionary of the wife of the engineer Shchukin consisted mainly of such words as "famous", "darkness", "horror", "lad", "taxi", etc., which adequately reflected her inner world. So, here is the dictionary itself: Creepy, creepy Horror, creepy - a word from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. For example, when meeting with a good friend: "terrible meeting." - I don't take bribes. I don't steal money and I don't know how to forge it. - Horror!. Famous Famous - a word from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. - Ho-ho! resounded in the silence of the night. - Well-known, Ernestulya! Cr-r-growth! like a child like a child- "I beat him like a child" - when playing cards. “I cut him like a baby” - apparently in a conversation with a responsible tenant. Cr-r-growth! Cr-r-growth! - Ho-ho! resounded in the silence of the night. - Well-known, Ernestulya! Cr-r-growth! Ilf and Petrov. Darkness Gloom - No, let's talk seriously. I receive two hundred rubles. - Darkness! Gloomy- is used in relation to everything. For example: “gloomy Petya has come”, “gloomy weather”, “gloomy event”, “gloomy cat”, etc. - A gloomy husband has come, - Ellochka said distinctly. Don't teach me how to live Don't teach me how to live - Ho-ho! objected Ostap, dancing with a chair in the large Mauritanian room of the Orient Hotel. - Don't teach me how to live. I am evil now. I have money. Ilf and Petrov Wow! Wow! - Expresses, depending on the circumstances, irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction. - Wow! Ho-ho! Let's exchange. You give me a chair, and I give you a strainer. Want to? boy Boy - used in relation to all familiar men, regardless of age and social status. - You are the right guy, - Ellochka noticed as a result of the first minutes of acquaintance. Think! Think! - a word from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. - Well, how can you do that? After all, we will have nothing to eat! - Think! Let's take a cab Let's go in a cab - a phrase from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. It is spoken to the husband. Let's take a taxi Let's go by taxi - a phrase from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. It is spoken by male acquaintances. - Will you take a taxi? Cr-growth. fat and handsome Thick and beautiful - Used as a characteristic of inanimate and animate objects. You are a fat and handsome boy. Your whole back is white Your whole back is white - it's a joke. “Your whole back is white,” said Ellochka in a gramophone voice. -Ulya-ulya - affectionate ending of names. For example: Mishulya, Zinulya. - Ho-ho! resounded in the silence of the night. - Well-known, Ernestulya! Cr-r-growth! Hamite Hamite is a word from the lexicon of Ellochka the cannibal. - Hamite, boy, - said Ellochka slyly. Ho-ho!Hamite Hamite - Hamite, boy, - Ellochka said slyly. Ho-ho! Ho-ho! - Expresses, depending on the circumstances, irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction. - Wow! Ho-ho! Let's exchange. You give me a chair, and I give you a strainer. Want to?
William Shakespeare's dictionary, according to researchers, is 12 000 words. The dictionary of a negro from the cannibalistic tribe "Mumbo-Yumbo" is 300 words.
Ellochka Shchukina easily and freely managed thirty. Here are the words, phrases and interjections, meticulously chosen by her from all the great, verbose and powerful Russian language:
- Be rude.
- Ho-ho! (Expresses, depending on the circumstances, irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction.)
- Famous.
- Gloomy. (In relation to everything. For example: “gloomy Petya has come”, “gloomy weather”, “gloomy event”, “gloomy cat”, etc.)
- Darkness.
- Horror. (Terrible. For example, when meeting a good friend: “ creepy meeting".)
- Boy. (In relation to all familiar men, regardless of age and social status.)
- Don't teach me how to live.
- Like a child. ("I I beat him like a child" - when playing cards. "I cut him like a baby" - apparently in a conversation with a responsible tenant.)
- Cr-r-growth!
- Thick and handsome. (Used as a characteristic of inanimate and animate objects.)
- Let's take a cab. (Talking to her husband.)
- Let's take a taxi. (Familiar male sex.)
- Your whole back is white (joke).
- Think!
- Ulya. (Affectionate ending of names. For example: Mishulya, Zinulya.)
- Wow! (Irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction.) The words remaining in an extremely small amount served as a transmission link between Ellochka and the department store clerks.
If you look at the photographs of Ellochka Shchukina, hanging over the bed of her husband, engineer Ernest Pavlovich Shchukin (one is full face, the other is in profile), it is easy to notice a forehead of pleasant height and bulge, large moist eyes, the cutest nose in the Moscow province with a slight snub and a chin with a small speck drawn in ink.
Ellochka's height flattered men. She was small, and even the most shabby men next to her looked like big and powerful men.
As for special signs, there were none. Ellochka did not need them. She was beautiful.
Two hundred rubles, which her husband received monthly at the Electrolustra plant, were an insult to Ellochka. They could not help in any way the grandiose struggle that Ellochka had been waging for four years, since she had taken the public position of a housewife - Shchukinshi, Shchukin's wife. The fight was fought with full effort. She consumed all the resources. Ernest Pavlovich took evening work home, refused servants, bred a primus stove, took out the garbage and even fried cutlets.
But everything was fruitless. Dangerous Enemy destroyed economy is growing every year. As already mentioned, Ellochka noticed four years ago that she had a rival across the ocean. Misfortune visited Ellochka on that joyful evening when Ellochka was trying on a very pretty little crepe de chine blouse. She looked almost like a goddess in this outfit.
Ho-ho,” she exclaimed, reducing to this cannibalistic cry the astonishingly complex feelings that captured her being. Simplified, these feelings could be expressed in such phrase: “Seeing me like this, men will get excited. They will tremble. They will follow me to the ends of the earth, stuttering with love. But I will be cold. Are they worth me? I am the most beautiful. No one else in the world has such an elegant blouse.”
But there were only thirty words, and Ellochka chose the most expressive of them - “ho-ho”.
At such a great hour, Fima Sobak came to her. She brought with her the frosty breath of January and a French fashion magazine. On its first page, Ellochka stopped. The sparkling photo showed the daughter of the American billionaire Vanderbilt in an evening dress. There were furs and feathers, silk and pearls, extraordinary lightness and stunning hair.
This solved everything.
Wow! Ella said to herself. It meant: "Either I, or she."
The next morning found Ellochka at the hairdresser's. Here Ellochka she lost her beautiful black braid and dyed her hair red. Then they managed to climb one more step of the ladder that brought Ellochka closer to the shining paradise, where the daughters of billionaires walk, not even a match for housewife Shchukina: a dog skin depicting a muskrat was bought with a work loan. It was used to decorate an evening dress. Mr. Schukin, who had long cherished the dream of buying a new drawing board, became somewhat depressed. The dress, trimmed with a dog, dealt the arrogant Vanderbildiha the first well-aimed blow. Then the proud American was dealt three blows in a row. Ellochka bought a chinchilla stole (a Russian hare killed in the Tula province) from Fimochka Sobak, a domestic furrier, got herself a pigeon hat made of Argentinean felt, and altered her husband's new jacket into a fashionable ladies' vest. The billionaire swayed, but apparently she was saved by a loving papa- Vanderbilt. The next issue of the magazine la fashion included portraits of the accursed rival in four forms: 1) in black-brown foxes, 2) with diamond a star on the forehead, 3) in an aviation suit - high lacquer boots, the thinnest green jacket spanish leather and gloves, the bells of which were inlaid with medium-sized emeralds, and 4) in the ballroom - cascades of jewelry and a little bit of silk.
Ellochka mobilized. Papa- Shchukin took out a loan from the mutual aid fund. They didn't give him more than thirty rubles. A new powerful effort undercut the economy at the root. I had to fight in all areas of life. Photographs of Miss in her new castle in Florida have recently been received. Ellochka also had to get new furniture. Ellochka Bought two upholstered chairs at auction. (A successful purchase! It was impossible to miss it!) Without asking her husband, Ellochka took money from the lunch sums. There were ten days and four rubles left until the fifteenth.
Ellochka carried chairs in style along Varsonofevsky Lane. The husband was not at home. However, he soon appeared, dragging a briefcase-chest with him.
The gloomy husband has come, - Ellochka said distinctly.
All the words were pronounced by her distinctly and jumped out briskly like peas.
Hello, Elena, what is this? Where are the chairs from?
No, really?
G-growth!
Yes. The chairs are good.
You know!
Did someone give?
How?! Have you bought? By what means? Is it for business? Because I've told you a thousand times...
Ernestuly! You are rude!
Well, how can you do that?! After all, we have nothing to eat!
Think!..
But this is outrageous! You are living beyond your means!
Yes Yes. You are living beyond your means...
Don't teach me how to live!
No, let's talk seriously. I get two hundred rubles...
I don't take bribes... I don't steal money and I don't know how to forge it...
Ernest Pavlovich fell silent.
That's what, - he said at last, - you can't live like that.
Ho-ho, - objected Ellochka, sitting down on a new chair.
We need to disperse.
Think!
We don't get along. I...
You are a fat and handsome boy.
How many times have I asked you not to call me boys!
And where did you get this idiotic jargon?!
Don't teach me how to live!
Oh shit! shouted the engineer.
Hamite, Ernestulya.
Let's leave peacefully.
You can't prove anything to me! This controversy...
I will beat you like a child...
No, it's completely unbearable. Your arguments cannot deter me from the step I am forced to take. I'm on my way to the pickup right now.
We share the furniture equally.
You will receive a hundred rubles a month. Even a hundred and twenty. The room will be yours. Live the way you want, but I can't...
Famous, - said Ellochka contemptuously.
And I will move to Ivan Alekseevich.
He went to the dacha and left me his entire apartment for the summer. I have the key... Only there is no furniture.
G-growth!
Ernest Pavlovich returned five minutes later with a janitor.
Well, I won’t take a wardrobe, you need it more, but a desk, be so kind ... And take this one chair, janitor. I will take one of these two chairs. I think I have a right to this? ..
Ernest Pavlovich tied his things into a large bundle, wrapped his boots in newspaper, and turned to the door.
Your whole back is white, - said Ellochka in a gramophone voice.
Goodbye, Elena.
He expected his wife to at least in this case refrain from the usual metal words. Ellochka also felt the importance of the minute. She tensed and began to look for words suitable for parting. They quickly found:
Will you take a taxi? Cr-growth. The engineer tumbled down the stairs like an avalanche.
Ellochka spent the evening with Fima Sobak. They discussed an unusually important event that threatened to overturn the world economy.
It seems that they will wear long and wide, - said Fima, dipping her head in her shoulders like a chicken.
And Ellochka respectfully looked at Fima Dogs. Mademoiselle Dogs was known as a cultured girl - there were about one hundred and eighty words in her dictionary. At the same time, she knew one such word that Ellochka could not even dream of. It was a rich word - homosexuality. Fima Sobak was undoubtedly a cultured girl.
The lively conversation dragged on long after midnight.
At ten o'clock in the morning the great strategist entered Varsonofevsky Lane. A homeless boy ran ahead. The boy pointed to the house.
Are you lying?
What are you, uncle... Right here, in the front door.
Bender gave the boy an honestly earned ruble.
It is necessary to add, - said the boy in a cab.
Ears from a dead donkey. Get it from Pushkin. Goodbye, defective.
Ostap knocked on the door, not thinking at all about the pretext under which he would enter. For conversations with the ladies, he preferred inspiration.
Wow? - asked from behind the door.
On the case, - answered Ostap.
Door opened. Ostap went into a room that could only be furnished by a creature with the imagination of a woodpecker. Film postcards, dolls and Tambov tapestries hung on the walls. Against this motley background, from which ripples in the eyes, it was difficult to notice the little mistress of the room. She was wearing a dressing gown made from Ernest Pavlovich's sweatshirt and trimmed with mysterious fur.
Ostap immediately understood how to behave in a secular society. He closed his eyes and took a step back.
Great fur! he exclaimed.
Joke! Ella said softly. - It's a Mexican jerboa.
It cannot be. You have been deceived. You've been given much better fur. These are Shanghai leopards. Well, yes! Leopards! I recognize them by their shade. See how the fur plays in the sun! .. Emerald! Emerald!
Ellochka herself painted the Mexican jerboa with green watercolors, and therefore the praise of the morning visitor was especially pleasant to her.
Without letting the mistress come to her senses, the great strategist threw out everything he had ever heard about furs. After that, they started talking about silk, and Ostap promised to give the charming hostess several hundred silk cocoons, brought him as the chairman of the CEC of Uzbekistan.
You are the right guy, - Ellochka noticed as a result of the first minutes of acquaintance.
you, of course, will surprise early visit unfamiliar men.
But I'm here with you on a delicate matter.
You were at the auction yesterday and made an extraordinary impression on me.
Have mercy! To be rude to such a charming woman is inhumane.
The conversation continued on in the same yielding miraculous results in some cases, direction. But Ostap's compliments from time to time became more and more watery and shorter. He noticed that there was no second chair in the room. I had to trace missing stool. Interspersing his inquiries with flowery oriental flattery, Ostap learned about the events of the previous evening in Ellochka's life.
“New business,” he thought, “the chairs are crawling like cockroaches.”
Dear girl," Ostap said unexpectedly, "sell me this chair. I really like him. Only you with your feminine flair could choose such an artistic thing. Sell it, girl, I'll give you seven rubles.
Be rude, boy, - Ellochka said slyly.
Ho-ho," Ostap explained.
"We need to act on her. exchange,” he said.
You know, now in Europe and in the best houses of Philadelphia they have revived the old fashion - pouring tea through a strainer. Extremely effective and very elegant.
Ella was worried.
- I have just a familiar diplomat came from Vienna and brought it as a gift. Funny thing.
It must be famous, - Ellochka became interested.
Wow! Ho-ho! Let's exchange. You give me a chair, and I give you a strainer. Want to? And Ostap took out of his pocket a small gilded strainer.
The sun rolled in the strainer like an egg. Bunnies jumped on the ceiling. A dark corner of the room suddenly lit up. The thing made the same irresistible impression on Ellochka as an old tin can makes on the cannibal Mumbo Yumbo. In such cases, the ogre screams in full voice, while Ellochka groaned softly:
Without letting her come to her senses, Ostap put the strainer on the table, took a chair, and, having learned the address of her husband from the charming woman, bowed gallantly.
On June 21, 1971, the premiere of Leonid Gaidai's comedy "12 Chairs" took place in the cinemas of the Soviet Union. At the end of the year, the film became the leader of the box office: it was watched by 39.3 million viewers. Natalia Vorobyova's role in the film is not the main one, but it is very bright and memorable! Still would! After all, she got Ellochka herself, a cannibal, a lady with a vocabulary of 30 expressive expressions. Ironically, the actress became a writer, has a double surname. And since 1974 he lives in Zagreb.
Tatyana Ulanova, "AiF": - In the Soviet Union there were many actors whom the viewer knew from one role. They could star in dozens of films, but they were still called Sukhov, Hobotov or Shurik. And they tend to be offended...
Natalya Vorobieva-Khrzhich: - And I like that they are still called Ellochka. Maybe it even helps in new creativity. To say that I'm tired of this cannibal means not to be grateful to the audience. Is it decent?
- But before emigrating, you played in a dozen films. And only Ellochka was remembered.
- I started acting as a student of GITIS, the roles rained down as if from a cornucopia, albeit not always the main ones. Somehow I had time ... Although the teachers were sharply against the cinema, they believed that it spoils us. Of course, this is not true. Nevertheless, I passed the tests in secret, I was not sure that they would approve. When, after the winter holidays spent with my mother in Budapest, I returned to the institute, it turned out that my fellow students already knew everything. Either in Izvestia, or in Pravda, a whole page was published with the headline “Gaidai Launches a New Film” and four photographs: Gomiashvili, Pugovkina, Filippova and mine. It was pointless to refuse. It was then that the terrible life at the faculty began. For a long year and a half...
- Many actresses claimed the role of Ellochka?
- What are you, of course! There were eight of us, ten or twelve ... Including a magnificent Zhanna Bolotova. She is charming even now, but at that time she was especially good and I liked her very much.
- The role is bright, characteristic. But the character is something!.. A silly girl, a dummy... One word - a cannibal. Were you really not afraid that the label would stick and you would be associated with her? Or were you ready to play at least a tree with Gaidai?
I didn't even think that Gaidai is a great director. Invited - and good. I could not imagine that the role would turn out, they would remember me ... And then, what's the difference? What if I agree to play Elsa Koch in a film about Nazism, then she should be afraid or refuse the role, so that later they would not call Elsa? Well, what are you talking about?! Negative roles, negative character - that's what's most interesting. In the positive, what to play?
Tango, invented by Mironov, was included in the film, but he himself was not
Sergei Filippov as Kisa Vorobyaninov in the film "12 Chairs" — And how did you first meet Gaidai?
- I was lucky: successful photo tests turned out. She was surprised at how much she didn't look like herself. I remember Gaidai laid out all the pictures on the floor. Eight Ellochek, twelve Ostapov, six Kis, fifteen of someone else... Thoughtfully walked between them, walked. Then he pointed with his finger: this, this and this - to talk to me. That's how we met. I have not been approved yet, but I tried with all the Ostaps, since Gaidai believed that the hero is revealed precisely in the scene with Ellochka. He is charming, and cunning, and dexterous, and a wonderful dancer. Well, it has everything! In general, I already thought that the role of the village, played with everyone confidently.
And suddenly one fine day... Another Ostap left, and the director said: "Listen, Natasha... She's not like that at all! .." I was dumbfounded: "How not like that? And what is it? Show!" Leonid Iovich leaned back in his chair, shook his head, made an indefinite movement with his hand, which, as it were, went through his hair. He glanced off to the side with a glassy eye. "Understood? - Understood". From that moment on, the role went, and he no longer dealt with me. He let me improvise, do what I want. I don't brag. Now what? I am not an actor. It was and gone. But then I got into character thanks to the great director, great actor and great teacher Gaidai. The combination of all these hypostases in one person is a rarity.
— A beautiful, full of expression tango was invented by the imposing Mironov. Who else have you tried?
- Only Andryusha remained in my memory. Ostapov was an incredible number, even very famous. But Mironov rehearsed the scene brilliantly! Bright! He just approached, extended his hand, pulled me out of the chair and whirled me in a dance ... However, the tango was included in the film, Mironov was not.
- But why?!
- Everything is very simple! The Diamond Hand just came out. It was a hit! Huge box office! It was impossible to forget Mironov with his "Island of Bad Luck". And in principle, he already played Ostap there. Under a different name. But the same brilliant and charming rogue. Everyone understood this. Both Gaidai and Mironov ... The danger was too great that he would repeat himself in "Chairs". A mustache, a scarf, a cap - nothing would have saved! It is important what comes from the actor, what kind of energy. And he had the energy of Ostap in his "Hand". It was pure Bender! Like me: if you offered me a role similar to Ellochka, I wouldn’t find how to change it completely. She entered me, I grew roots in her, we became one whole ... And Mironov also had a big role in "Hand". He played her amazingly. And that's the only reason he didn't pass as Ostap.
- Got upset?
- For sure. Did you get offended? I doubt. He was a smart man, a great actor. Andrew understood everything.
Ostap with a Georgian accent? This is too much!
Archil Gomiashvili as Ostap Bender in the film "12 Chairs" - Finally, Gomiashvili appeared. How did you find it?
- I was already approved when one winter evening the assistant director called. And we made a conspiracy:
- Do you want to shoot?
- What does it mean? I've already been approved.
- Yes, yes ... Approved ... Only the film is in the balance. Tomorrow the “seventy-fifth” Ostap is coming from Tbilisi, so rehearse this damn tango with him in advance. You know better than anyone what Gaidai wants."
So we did. Gomiashvili handed a tape with tango, I grabbed a tape recorder from home, got into a taxi and rushed to his hotel "Russia" to rehearse. After the dance, Archil invited me to dinner, we said goodbye in order to "acquaint ourselves" the next day in Gaidai's office. And he did a good job!
Although he was voiced by a different actor in most scenes...
- And what, would it be better if Ostap babbled with a Georgian accent? That would be too funny.
- They say that, offended, he said to Gaidai: "If I had known that such a shitty film would turn out, I would have refused." To which the director, not at a loss, replied: “If I had known that you were such a shitty artist, I would not have taken pictures.”
- Well answered! But this is the first time I hear about it. However, this is very possible. Nina Pavlovna Grebeshkova She said in an interview that very quickly Gomiashvili forgot the one who gave him the opportunity to become a star. It's true. He had such a star disease that was not characteristic of the actors of that time. I remember Papanov came, who had already played some of his best roles. And yet he was very humble. Then, after all, the rule was the same for everyone: both beginners and already well-known ones must pass tests. Nobody just said that. Who would get the role was a big question mark, and everyone fought very hard for the right to act. Unfortunately, the script slipped out of Papanov's hands. The actors are all superstitious: a middle-aged man, he immediately sank to the floor, sat on the leaves ... But it didn’t help ...
How could I come? Iron curtain. 57th article. Enemy of the people…
- It is clear that you fell in love, got married and did not think about a career, although it could continue to develop successfully ...
- I didn't think so! In principle, I wanted to become a theater critic. But accidentally got into acting. So the boards and scaffolds were separate, and life was separate. This was the option when the profession loves the actor more than the actor loves the profession. I didn't understand why they invited me. What do directors see in me? The actresses who auditioned with me liked me more. It was only when I arrived in Yugoslavia that I realized that I had lost my favorite profession. Life taught me such a lesson. And at first I was very worried. It was hard for me to go to the theatre. Very hard…
- Was there depression?
- No, no ... I have never experienced this! She quickly learned the language, took up translation, including simultaneous translation. Five or six years later she starred in two Yugoslav films. And that's all!.. I remember the first performance I saw in Zagreb was "Agony" based on the play by the Croatian classic Miroslava Krlezhi. And now I'm looking at a Russian emigrant Madeleine Petrovna, the most dangerous secular lady, and I think: “God, what a role! Characteristic! Strong! Mine!..” Nearly twenty years pass. And I'm meeting with Mani Gotovac… If compared, this is a Croatian Galina Volchek... The most talented, smartest woman. After dinner, she came up to me to talk:
- Natasha, do you want to return to your profession?
— What are we talking about?
“Agony,” Krlezh…
— Russian emigrant?
Yes, Madeleine Petrovna...
Your proposal is 20 years late...
She gazed at me intently.
You can do it even now...
Of course, I refused. And a couple of weeks later I was invited to the theater to work with an actress: to spoil her perfect Croatian, giving the language a Russian intonation and accent. The actress was supposed to play ... Madeleine Petrovna.
A few more years later, Mani Gotovac and I met again: I had just published the book Sonata in Four Hands. And she said: “If I put on Agony, I will again offer you a role ...”
- Didn't they call from the USSR, didn't they offer anything?
- From what? They called mom. They asked if Natasha could come. But as? Iron curtain. 57th execution article. Enemy of the people... I could return. But coming and going to shoot? It was completely unrealistic! Even though Yugoslavia was in the socialist camp, they treated it as a country of capitalism ... And then time took its toll. Try not to interview for a few years. How would you do it then? How would you write? It's the same with ballet, opera, sports... You have to be in the profession every day. Now I would already feel the tension, everything would interfere with me. I got out of the loop.
Do you keep in touch with any of your colleagues?
- Unfortunately no. On one transfer met with Natasha Selezneva: we agreed to call next time, see each other ... 42 years apart is a lot. We have developed, matured and aged in different ways. We have become different. Or do you think I recognize the Natasha that I once was? Yes, I am also principled, uncompromising. But I don't have much in common with that girl. So it is with friends. The closeness is gone. Now we are just good friends.
Strange... I don't know what happiness is... Probably a myth
- You didn’t manage to stay in the profession, it didn’t work out with the first short marriage and the second, fifteen years old, you didn’t become a mother ... Do you regret anything?
- Do you live a harmonious life, do you feel happy?
- Strange ... I don't know what happiness is ... There are moments of delight, joy. But they are very short. Compared to the black periods, which sometimes last for years. Perhaps happiness is a myth. If you put together all his flashes, it will come up for about five to ten minutes at the most. Am I satisfied with my life? Yes, it seems to be nothing ... Although you certainly can’t call my road straight. It has always been ups and downs. However, they are what make life rich. They say: we will all be there ... You know what I'm thinking about? When I get there, they will show me a film about my earthly journey, I will exclaim: “God! What an interesting life I have had! Like a novel! But being the main character of this novel in life is not easy ...
Are you familiar with nostalgia?
- I think this is a feeling from the century before last. Then people, in order to get from point A to point B, rode horses for days and weeks, stayed in terrible taverns ... Everything was extremely problematic. In our time, I bought a ticket, got on a plane, and after two hours and forty-five minutes I left for Sheremetyevo. What kind of nostalgia?
— Do you often visit Moscow?
- Twice a year. This is usually associated with presentations of my books. They are published both in Russian and, thank God, in Croatian.
- And if suddenly one of the directors suddenly calls? ..
— Never!.. The camera is merciless. I don't like myself at all. At my age, which I am not trying to hide, it is no longer possible to look good without suspenders. That's why I don't like the camera anymore. And she pays me the same. In a word, I would refuse the most tempting offer. At the same second.
- Is the problem now - braces?
- My God! I'm just afraid! It seems that even under deep anesthesia, my fear will be transferred to the surgeon, his hand will tremble ... For my age, I look pretty decent. And with the movie, the issue has long been resolved ...
- Are you dreaming about something?
About great love. Ha-ha-ha!..
- I want you to make it happen.
- From your mouth - yes into God's ears! You will be the first person I tell about this.
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Cannibal Ellochka (Ellochka Schukina, Elena Schukina, Elena Schukina) is a character in the humorous novel by I. Ilf and E. Petrov "The Twelve Chairs". Ellochka-cannibal's dictionary was only 30 words, but with them she could express almost any of her thoughts.
A source: novel "12 chairs"
In a figurative sense, "Ellochka the cannibal" is a vulgar and narrow-minded, but sexy girl who lives at the expense of men for her own pleasure; a person with a limited outlook, living only by consumption, acquiring things and competing in dresses with other Ellochki. The nickname “cannibal” was given to Elena by the authors as a comparison with the cannibals of the Mumbo-Yumbo tribe, whose vocabulary “is 300 words” (that is, 10 times more than Ellochkin).
The main raison d'être was clothes and "social" life. Apparently, Ellochka had no equal in her circle, so she competed with the overseas Vanderbildiha, whom she had read about in fashion magazines...
Ellochka dictionary
William Shakespeare's dictionary, according to researchers, is 12,000 words. The dictionary of a negro from the cannibalistic tribe "Mumbo-Yumbo" is 300 words. Ellochka Shchukina easily and freely managed thirty. Here are the words, phrases and interjections, meticulously chosen by her from all the great, verbose and powerful Russian language:
Be rude.
Ho-ho! (Expresses, depending on the circumstances, irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction.)
Famous.
Gloomy. (In relation to everything. For example: “gloomy Petya has come”, “gloomy weather”, “gloomy event”, “gloomy cat”, etc.)
Darkness.
Horror. (Terrible. For example, when meeting with a good friend: “creepy meeting”).
Boy. (In relation to all familiar men, regardless of age and social status).
Don't teach me how to live.
Like a child. (“I hit him like a child” - when playing cards. “I cut him off like a child” - apparently in a conversation with a responsible tenant).
Cr-r-growth!
Thick and handsome. (Used as a characteristic of inanimate and animate objects).
Let's take a cab. (Spoken to husband).
Let's take a taxi. (To male acquaintances).
Your whole back is white (just kidding).
Think!
Ulya. (Affectionate ending of names. For example: Mishulya, Zinulya).
Wow! (Irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction).
The words remaining in an extremely small amount served as a transmission link between Ellochka and the clerks of department stores.
Interesting Facts
... her husband received it at the Electrolustra plant ... - There was no such plant in Moscow. Probably an allusion to the 1st and 2nd Electrolamp factories, which produced such goods as a table lamp and were part of the State Electrotechnical Trust - GET. (From the comments of M. Odessky and D. Feldman, 1997.)
There is a so-called basic English, consisting of 850 words. It is believed that this is enough for ordinary life.
In the lexicon of A. S. Pushkin there were more than 12,000 words.
"... This is a Mexican jerboa ..." - "These are Shanghai leopards ..." - Such animals are unknown to zoologists. It is likely, by the way, that the “Shanghai leopards” are another reminder to the reader of the key event for understanding the novel, the “Shanghai coup”. (From the comments of M. Odessky and D. Feldman, 1997.)
He ran very fast, - said the stray, - jumped out of his head.
You will not receive money, - the employer has declared.
Uncle! .. Yes, I'll show you.
Okay. Stay. Let's go together.
The bleating citizen lived, it turns out, on Sadovaya-Spasskaya. Ostap wrote down his exact address in a notebook.
The eighth chair went to the House Peoples. The boy who was chasing that chair turned out to be a sneaky one.
overcoming barriers in the form of a commandant's office and numerous couriers, he penetrated into House and made sure that the chair was bought by the supply manager of the editorial office of "Stank".
There were no two boys yet. They arrived at almost the same time, out of breath and exhausted.
Barracks Lane, near Chistye Prudy.
Nine. And flat nine. Tatars live there. In the courtyard. I gave him a chair. They walked on foot.
The last messenger brought sad news. At first everything was good, but then everything became bad. The buyer entered with a chair into the goods yard of the Oktyabrsky railway station, and it was impossible to climb through after it - at the gate there were arrows of the OVO NKPS.
He probably left, - the homeless child finished his report.
This alarmed Ostap very much. Having rewarded the homeless in a royal way - a ruble per messenger, not counting the messenger from Varsonofevsky Lane, who forgot the house number (he was ordered to arrive the next day early), - the technical director returned home and, without answering the questions of the disgraced chairman of the board, began to combine.
Nothing is lost yet. There are addresses, and in order to get chairs, there are many old tried and true tricks: 1) simple acquaintance, 2) love affair, 3) acquaintance with burglary, 4) exchange, 5) money and 6) money. The last one is the most correct. But money is scarce. Ostap looked ironically at Ippolit Matveyevich. The usual freshness of thought and peace of mind returned to the great strategist. Money, of course, can be obtained. In the reserve there was still a painting “The Bolsheviks write a letter to Chamberlain”, a tea strainer and the full opportunity to continue the career of a polygamist.
Worried only tenth chair. There was a trace, of course, but what a trace! - vague and hazy.
Well! Ostap said loudly. - You can catch such chances. I play nine against one. The meeting continues! Do you hear? You! Juror!
CHAPTER TWELVE
Cannibal Ellochka
William Shakespeare's dictionary, according to researchers, is 12.000 words. The dictionary of a negro from the cannibalistic tribe "Mumbo-Yumbo" is 300 words.
Ellochka Shchukina easily and freely managed thirty.
Here are the words, phrases and interjections, meticulously chosen by her from all the great, verbose and powerful Russian language:
1. Be rude.
2. Ho-ho! (Expresses, depending on the circumstances, irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction.)
3. Famous.
4. Gloomy. (In relation to everything. For example: “gloomy Petya came”, “gloomy weather”, “gloomy event”, "gloomy cat", etc.)
6. Horror. (Terrible. For example, when meeting a good friend: "creepy meeting".)
7. Kid. (In relation to all familiar men, regardless of age and social status.)
8. Don't teach me how to live.
9. Like a child. ("I I beat him like a child" - when playing cards. "I cut him like a baby" - apparently in a conversation with a responsible tenant.)
10. C-r-growth!
11. Thick and beautiful. (Used as a characteristic of inanimate and animate objects.)
12. Let's go by cab. (Talking to her husband.)
13. Let's go to the taxi. (Familiar male gender. )
14. Your whole back is white (joke).
15. Think!
16. Ulya. (Affectionate ending of names. For example: Mishulya, Zinulya.)
17. Wow! (Irony, surprise, delight, hatred, joy, contempt and satisfaction.)
The words remaining in an extremely small amount served as a transmission link between Ellochka and the clerks of department stores.
If you look at the photographs of Ellochka Shchukina, hanging over the bed of her husband, engineer Ernest Pavlovich Shchukin (one is full face, the other is in profile), it is easy to notice a forehead of pleasant height and bulge, large moist eyes, the cutest nose in the Moscow province with slight snub nose and a chin with a small speck drawn in ink.
