In the first novel, Ostap Bender searches for a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the twelve eponymous chairs. The Twelve Chairs was released in January 1928. His statues may be found in several cities, and a commemorative plaque was set in Odesa, the city of his birth. In post-Soviet times Bender's character was elevated from the status of a con man to that of an entrepreneur. His exploits have been enjoyed by readers throughout the Soviet times and in modern Russia. īender is an attractive, resourceful crook, full of energy while operating within the law ("Bender knew 400 relatively legal ways to make the population part with their money.") his description as " The Great Combinator" became a catchphrase in the Russian language. The novels are examples of a picaresque novel genre, which was previously rare in Russian literature. Ostap Bender ( Russian: Остап Бендер in The Twelve Chairs he called himself Ostap-Suleyman-Berta-Maria-Bender- Bey, in The Little Golden Calf he called himself Bender-Zadunaysky, in later novels he was also called Ostap Ibragimovich Bender) is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931) written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. Ostap Bender as portrayed by Andrei Mironov, 1976
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