Editing Ostap Bender (section)

==Appearances==
''[[The Twelve Chairs]]'' was released in January [[1928 in literature|1928]].

In the first novel, Ostap Bender searches for a stash of [[diamond]]s hidden in one of the twelve eponymous chairs. The action takes place in the [[Soviet Union]] in 1927 during the [[New Economic Policy]] era. At the end of the novel, Bender is killed by his partner, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, who does not want to share the treasure when it seems like they are about to reach their goal.

In the second novel, ''[[The Little Golden Calf]]'', published in 1931, Bender is alive, he says, because "surgeons barely saved my life", Ilf and Petrov having conjured the character's death away [[retroactive continuity|retroactively]]. This book provided an extended satire on certain elements of Soviet life. Here, Bender follows Soviet underground multi-millionaire Koreiko, hoping to acquire some of his riches and thus amass a fortune. Bender gets his money, but soon discovers he cannot spend it in the USSR. He proceeds to lose it as he attempts to flee the country by crossing the border into Romania.

Film-makers have produced a number of screen adaptations of the novels; see [[The Twelve Chairs#Adaptations|''The Twelve Chairs'' adaptations]] and [[The Little Golden Calf#Adaptations|''The Little Golden Calf'' adaptations]]. Over the years, the part was played on screen by [[Frank Langella]] ([[The Twelve Chairs (1970 film)]]), [[Archil Gomiashvili]] ([[The Twelve Chairs (1971 film)]]), [[Andrei Mironov (actor)]] ([[The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)]]), [[Sergei Yursky]] ([[The Golden Calf (1968 film)]]), [[Oleg Menshikov]] (The Little Golden Calf, 2006), etc.