the authors produced a photo essay entitled "American Photographs", published in Ogoniok magazine. Shortly after that they published the book Одноэтажная Америка (literally: "One-storied America"), translated as Little Golden America (an allusion to The Little Golden Calf). The first edition of the book did not include Ilf's photographs. Both the photo essay and the book document their adventures with their characteristic humor and playfulness. Notably, Ilf and Petrov were not afraid to praise many aspects of the American lifestyle in these works while being highly critical about others. The title comes from the following description. Vladimir Nabokov considered them to be "wonderfully gifted writers". Ilf died of tuberculosis a few months after their return from the USA. Petrov became a front line correspondent during the Second World War and, after covering the fighting in Sevastopol, was killed when the airplane he was travelling in back to Moscow crashed while flying low to avoid anti-aircraft fire. Script authors Woman-Sycophant – comic play (1930, “Подхалимка”) House-Barracks – screenplay (1931, “Барак”) Strong Feeling – vaudeville (1933, “Сильное чувство”) Under the Circus Dome – comic play (1934, with Valentin Kataev, “Под куполом цирка”) In culture The minor planet 3668 Ilfpetrov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, is named after them. Bibliography (A translation of the eleven-part "American Photographs" photo-essay originally published in Ogoniok) Notes and references External links . (first chapter of "American Photographs," translated into English as Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip ) . . Writers from Odesa Russian humorists Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet short story writers 20th-century short story writers Russian satirists 20th-century pseudonymous writers