Twelve Chairs

Her soninlaw Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure Meanwhile over the years the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country However Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender a clever and colorful conman as well as Father Fjodor a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South West to East across water and land from the country to the city