The Golden Calf

The wild success that befell Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of The Twelve Chairs (1928) prompted the co-authors to “resurrect” their hero, the cheerful and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and to take up the creation of the novel The Golden Calf (1931). This time, the “great schemer” develops an operation to extort money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected plot twists, aphoristic style and other merits of the dilogy leave no one indifferent. The novels about Ostap Bender are part of the golden fund of Russian literature.