You need to erect a miraculous monument

Foreign countries will help us.
You have been deceived. You have been given much best fur. These are Shanghai leopards.
An international chess tournament should be held in Vasyuki.
Wine, women and cards are provided to us.

All smuggling is done in Odessa, on Malaya Arnautskaya street.
The hearing continues, gentlemen of the jury.
A sultry woman, a poet's dream.
What money? You seem to be asking about some money?
The office is writing.
Whoever says it's a girl, let him be the first to throw a stone at me!

The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!
Maybe give you another key to the apartment where the money is?
I would stuff your snout, but Zarathustra won't allow it.
Nobody likes us, except for the Criminal Investigation Department, who doesn't like us either.

Give me the sausage, fool! I will forgive everything!
Ears from a dead donkey.
How much is opium for the people?
Five hundred rubles can save a giant of thought.
Russia will not forget you!

The secret union of sword and plowshare!
Although we do not have Paris, we are welcome to our hut.
Why is that so many? Are oats expensive these days?
I'll give you parabellum.

Monuments to a favorite character in different cities

Monument to Ostap Bender in St. Petersburg

In 2000 in center of St. Petersburg On the Italian street near the restaurant "Golden Ostap" there was a monument to the literary hero of the novel "12 chairs" by Ilf and Petrov - Ostap Bender. Sculptor Albert Charkin supplied the bronze figure with two characteristic attributes: a chair and a folder called “Case”, in which the son of a Turkish citizen carefully collected information about the underground millionaire Koreiko.

Another monument to Bender appeared in Zhmerinka. Bender climbed onto a pedestal on the Station Square. Around him are seven chairs. He holds the remains of the eighth in his hands. When asked where the remaining four chairs went, the authors of the monument answer that the local punks turned out to be more agile than the Great Combiner. No sooner had the monument been erected, as it turned out, several chairs disappeared in an unknown direction.

Monument to Ostap Bender in Kharkov

Monument to Ostap Bender in Kharkov opened August 22, 2005 st. Petrovsky. Sculptor Eldeniz Kurbanov. Prototype - Sergey Yursky. The bronze Ostap was installed on the sidewalk at the entrance to the cafe "Rio" at the expense of the owner of the cafe, Azan Akhmediev. The monument depicts the figure of Ostap Bender sitting on a bench with a cigarette in his hand. According to Azan Akhmediev, the monument symbolically expresses the dream of Ostap Bender himself to visit Rio de Janeiro.

Monument to Ostap Bender in Elista

Author sculptor Ostap Bender in Elista- A. Khachaturian. The monument was erected in 1999.
The figure of a lonely man - Ostap Ibragimovich Bender-bey, the son of a Turkish subject, stands almost without a pedestal, on a par with his height ordinary person. In a semicircle there is a gazebo with climbing plants and twelve chairs and tables for a session of a simultaneous game of chess.

Monument to Ostap Bender in Starobelsk

“At half past eleven, from the northwest, from the direction of the village of Chmarovka, a young man of about twenty-eight entered Stargorod. A homeless man ran after him .. ”The fifth chapter of the novel begins with these words. Scientists claim that Grand schemer included exactly to Starobelsk. In the 21st century, the monument will “walk” in the southeast direction in the courtyard of the Starobelsk Faculty of the LNU. The author of the monument is a senior lecturer at Luhansk national university named after Taras Shevchenko, sculptor Andrey Borovoy.

Monument to Ostap Bender in Pyatigorsk

In September 2008, at the entrance to Proval, a bronze monument was erected to the protagonist of "12 Chairs" Ilf and Petrov Ostap Bender. The composition depicts a great strategist who arrived to Pyatigorsk looking for chairs with diamonds hidden in them. "With the aim of overhaul failure. In order not to fail too much ”Ostap Bender successfully sold tickets to vacationers to enter the“ Proval ”. The monument was made by sculptor Ravil Yusupov. The monument is two meters tall, it took about 400 kilograms of bronze to make it. After the celebrations, literally on the next day, the vandals broke and threw the bronze Grand Schemer nearby. Within a few months, the monument was restored

Monument to the children of Lieutenant Schmidt in Berdyansk

The monument "Children of Lieutenant Schmidt" is located in the main park of the city Berdyansk- Schmidt Park. It occupies an area of ​​more than 3.5 hectares. It was this city that was native to the red lieutenant. The monument is popularly called “Will you be the third?”.
Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt - revolutionary figure, one of the leaders of the Sevastopol uprising of 1905, also known as Lieutenant Schmidt.
In Ilf and Petrov's novel The Golden Calf, "thirty sons and four daughters of Lieutenant Schmidt" are mentioned - impostors and swindlers "working" by mutual agreement in different regions THE USSR.
Both heroes of Ilf and Petrov, Ostap Bender and Shura Balaganov, sit on chairs with mugs of beer in their hands. Nearby - another chair with the inscription "Beer - takeaway only" - for those who wish to be photographed in the company of popular literary characters.
It is curious that the monument to the “children” was erected a few meters from the monument to Lieutenant Schmidt himself.

Monument to Ostap Bender in Krasnodar

Address: near the cafe-restaurant "Golden calf" on the street. Rashpilevskaya, Krasnodar

Monument to Ostap Bender in Odessa

In the Central City Garden Odessa next to the monument to Kise Vorobyaninov there is a monument to another hero of the novel The Twelve Chairs - Ostap Bender. Bender, portrayed by artist Sergei Tolkeev, follows the proceeds collected by Kisa Vorobyaninov at the entrance to the restaurant U Pecheskago. Both sculptures were made at the expense of local entrepreneurs; they look like bronze, but they are actually made of plaster. About a hundred meters from the monuments to Bender and Vorobyaninov on Deribasovskaya Street, there is the twelfth chair they are looking for, to which you need to go through the City Garden.

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov are one of the most prominent satirists and comedians of the Soviet era, whose books amuse and amaze us to this day. And the quotes of Ostap Bender and other heroes have already become real classics. In this post, I propose to recall the favorite phrases of the heroes.

The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury, the ice has broken.
Maybe give you another key to the apartment where the money is?
Ostap went into a room that could only be furnished by a creature with the imagination of a woodpecker.
- Is this your boy?
- Boy, is it bad? Typical boy. Whoever says it's a girl, let him be the first to throw a stone at me!

The client must be accustomed to the idea that he will have to give money. He must be morally disarmed, his reactionary possessive instincts must be suppressed.
I am certainly not a cherub. I don't have wings, but I respect the Criminal Code. This is my weakness.
This mental exercise seems to have exhausted you greatly. You are becoming stupid right before your eyes.
You have to show him some paper, otherwise he won't believe that you exist.

The financial abyss is the deepest of all abysses, you can fall into it all your life
He loved and suffered. He loved money and suffered from its lack.
It's not so bad to be a beggar, especially with a moderate education and a weak voice setting!
However, you can leave, but we have, I warn you, Long hands!... He stayed - "long arms" made an unfavorable impression on him.

Ostap quickly pulled it out of Panikovsky's hands, saying:
- Do not make a cult out of food.
After that, he ate the cucumber himself.
Monsieur, it's not mange pa sis jour. Geben world zi bitteetvas kopeck auf dem shtuk ford. Serve something former deputy State Duma.
Cold soft-boiled eggs - the food is very tasteless, and good, cheerful person will never eat them.

I have with Soviet power arose for Last year the most serious disagreements. She wants to build socialism, but I don't want to. I'm bored with building socialism.
Do not knock your bald head on the parquet
- You are not in the church, you will not be deceived.

- How much is opium for the people?
Life, gentlemen of the jury, is a complex thing, but, gentlemen of the jury, this thing opens like a box. You just need to know how to open it. Who can not open, he disappears

I will lead the parade!

Pedestrians must be loved. Pedestrians make up most humanity. Moreover, the best part of it. Pedestrians created the world.
Your gasoline - our ideas.
In our vast country, an ordinary car, intended, according to pedestrians, for the peaceful transportation of people and goods, has taken on the formidable outlines of a fratricidal projectile.

The sunset was pure, naive, as if a provincial young lady had painted it long before the first, terrible thoughts about men came into her head.
If you see an American laughing, it does not mean that he is funny. He laughs for the reason that an American should laugh.
You can be a nice and smart boy, do well in school, do well in university science - and after several years of regular attendance at the cinema, turn into an idiot.

Rio de Janeiro is the crystal dream of my childhood, do not touch it with your paws.
There is always a person who struggles to speak last.
He got so drunk that he could already work various small miracles.
Just don't shoot at the chandelier, it's superfluous.

He courted a typist whose modest hips unleashed his poetic feelings.
- You are quite vulgar person you love money more than you should.
- Don't you like money?
- I do not like.
Why do you need sixty thousand?
- Out of principle!
Although we do not have Paris, we are welcome to our hut.
You are an interesting person! Everything is fine with you. Surprisingly, with such happiness - and at large!

Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov are one of the most prominent satirists and comedians of the Soviet era, whose books amuse and amaze us to this day. And the quotes of Ostap Bender and other heroes have already become real classics. In this post, I propose to recall the favorite phrases of the heroes.

The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury, the ice has broken.
Maybe give you another key to the apartment where the money is?
Ostap went into a room that could only be furnished by a creature with the imagination of a woodpecker.
- Is this your boy?
- Boy, is it bad? Typical boy. Whoever says it's a girl, let him be the first to throw a stone at me!

The client must be accustomed to the idea that he will have to give money. He must be morally disarmed, his reactionary possessive instincts must be suppressed.

I am certainly not a cherub. I don't have wings, but I respect the Criminal Code. This is my weakness.
This mental exercise seems to have exhausted you greatly. You are becoming stupid right before your eyes.
You have to show him some paper, otherwise he won't believe that you exist.


The financial abyss is the deepest of all abysses, you can fall into it all your life

He loved and suffered. He loved money and suffered from its lack.
It's not so bad to be a beggar, especially with a moderate education and a weak voice setting!
However, you can leave, but I warn you, we have long arms! ... He stayed - "long arms" made an unfavorable impression on him.


Ostap quickly pulled it out of Panikovsky's hands, saying:

Do not make a cult out of food.
After that, he ate the cucumber himself.
Monsieur, it's not mange pa sis jour. Geben world zi bitteetvas kopeck auf dem shtuk ford. Give something to the former deputy of the State Duma.
Cold soft-boiled eggs - the food is very tasteless, and a good, cheerful person will never eat them.


Over the past year, I have had the most serious disagreements with the Soviet government. She wants to build socialism, but I don't want to. I'm bored with building socialism.

Do not knock your bald head on the parquet
- You are not in the church, you will not be deceived.


- How much is opium for the people?

Life, gentlemen of the jury, is a complex thing, but, gentlemen of the jury, this thing opens like a box. You just need to know how to open it. Who can not open, he disappears

I will lead the parade!


Pedestrians must be loved. Pedestrians make up the majority of humanity. Moreover, the best part of it. Pedestrians created the world.

Your gasoline - our ideas.
In our vast country, an ordinary car, intended, according to pedestrians, for the peaceful transportation of people and goods, has taken on the formidable outlines of a fratricidal projectile.


The sunset was pure, naive, as if a provincial young lady had painted it long before the first, terrible thoughts about men came into her head.

If you see an American laughing, it does not mean that he is funny. He laughs for the reason that an American should laugh.
You can be a nice and smart boy, do well in school, do well in university science - and after several years of regular attendance at the cinema, turn into an idiot.


Rio de Janeiro is the crystal dream of my childhood, do not touch it with your paws.

There is always a person who struggles to speak last.
He got so drunk that he could already work various small miracles.
Just don't shoot at the chandelier, it's superfluous.


He courted a typist whose modest hips unleashed his poetic feelings.

You are a rather vulgar person, you love money more than you should.
- Don't you like money?
- I do not like.
Why do you need sixty thousand?
- Out of principle!
Although we do not have Paris, we are welcome to our hut.
You are an interesting person! Everything is fine with you. Surprisingly, with such happiness - and at large!

For almost a century now, the works of Ilf and Petrov about the adventures of the great schemer have not lost their popularity. During this period, the novels "12 Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" survived several adaptations, and the phrases from them have long become winged. Few people know that Ostap Bender is not collective character. He had real prototype- Inspector of the Odessa Criminal Investigation Ostap Shor, whose life was no less exciting than that of his literary counterpart.

In the spring of 1927, an imposing middle-aged man entered the editorial office of the Gudok newspaper. He went to two young reporters, whose names were Ilf and Petrov. Yevgeny Petrov familiarly greeted the newcomer, since it was his brother Valentin Kataev. Soviet writer winked conspiratorially at both of them and announced that he wanted to hire them as "literary blacks." Kataev had an idea for a book, and young reporters were asked to dress it up in literary form. According to the writer's idea, a certain leader of the county nobility Vorobyaninov tried to find the jewels sewn into one of the twelve chairs.

The creative tandem immediately set to work. literary heroes Ilf and Petrov "copied" from their entourage. Almost everyone had their own prototype. One of episodic heroes became a common acquaintance of the writers, a certain inspector of the criminal investigation department of Odessa, whose name was Ostap Shor. The authors decided to leave the name, but the surname was changed to Bender. As the book is being written, episodic character every now and then came to the fore, "pushing the rest of the heroes with his elbows."
When Ilf and Petrov brought the manuscript to Kataev, he realized that the work turned out to be completely different than he had originally imagined. Valentin Petrovich decided to remove his name from the list of authors, but demanded that Ilf and Petrov print a dedication for him on the first page of the published novel.

When the novel gained immense popularity, fans began to look for a prototype of the main character. Some Arab scholars seriously argued that Ostap Bender was a Syrian, their Uzbek opponents took the point of view regarding him Turkic origin. Only at the end of the twentieth century did the name become known the real Ostap Bender. It was Osip Veniaminovich Shor. Friends called him Ostap. The fate of this man was no less exciting than his literary character.

Ostap Shor was born in 1899 in Odessa. In 1916, he entered the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, but to finish it young man not judged. Happened October Revolution. The way home took Ostap about a year. During this time, he had to wander, get into trouble, hide from his pursuers. Some of the adventures that Shor later told his friends about were reflected in the novel.

When Ostap Shor got to Odessa, she changed beyond recognition. From a prosperous city of enterprising businessmen and Italian opera it turned into a place where they hosted criminal gangs. This was not surprising, because in the three years after the revolution in Odessa, power changed fourteen times. Residents of the city united in people's squads to fight crime, and the most zealous fighters for justice were awarded the title of inspector of the criminal investigation department. It was he who became Ostap Shor. The growth of 190 cm, remarkable strength and a heightened sense of justice made Shor a thunderstorm for the criminals of Odessa.

Several times his life hung in the balance, but, thanks to sharp mind and lightning-fast reaction, Ostap always managed to sneak away. What can you say about his brother. Nathan Shore was famous writer who worked under the pseudonym Nathan Fioletov. He was about to get married. Nathan and his fiancee were choosing furniture for their future apartment when three people approached him and, asking for his last name, shot at point-blank range. The criminals simply confused Ostap with his brother.

Ostap Shor took the death of his brother very painfully, and after a while he left the UGRO and went to Moscow. Because of his impulsive nature, Ostap constantly got into all kinds of trouble. The expression of a literary character: “My dad was a Turkish citizen” belongs to Shor. When the question of military service arose, Ostap often uttered this phrase. The fact is that the children of foreigners were exempted from military service.

In order to hint at the work of the real Ostap in the criminal investigation department, Ilf and Petrov indicated several times in specific phrases in the novel that their main character- a good detective. In the chapter "Etc." Ostap Bender busily draws up a protocol from the scene: “Both bodies lie with their feet to the southeast, and their heads to the northwest. There are lacerated wounds on the body, apparently inflicted by some kind of blunt instrument.

When the books "12 Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" were published, Ostap Shor came to the authors and insistently demanded to pay for the image written off from him. Ilf and Petrov were at a loss and tried to justify themselves, but at this time Ostap laughed. He stayed with the writers for the night and told them about his adventures. In the morning, Ilf and Petrov woke up in full confidence that they would publish the third part about the adventures of the great strategist. But the book was never written, because Ilya Ilf fell ill with tuberculosis.

Ostap Shor himself lived to be 80 years old. All this time he wandered Soviet Union. In 1978 came out biographical novel Valentina Kataeva "My Diamond Crown", which contained clear hints from whom the image of Ostap Bender was written off.

Not only Ostap Bender had his own prototype. These

The novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov "The Twelve Chairs" was published in 1928, and immediately gained great popularity among Soviet readers. Since then, over the past almost ninety years, this famous work satirical thought was translated into many languages, repeatedly filmed and staged on theater stages, the phrases from the novel went to the people, and the characters of the novel themselves became the basis for folk art. Here one can also mention sculptural compositions dedicated to the stay of the great strategist and company in a particular city, cartoons in print and online publications, paintings and more. And in 1996 it happened an important event- The Kozmodemyansky Museum of Satire and Humor was opened. Now the museum is under restoration, and in an updated form should begin to receive visitors by the beginning of the tourist season. The novels by Ilf and Petrov "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" over the past years have not lost their sharpness at all, and in connection with the beginning of the year, declared the Year of Literature, they have become even more relevant.

A bit of history. It is believed that the city of Kozmodemyansk is the prototype of the city of Vasyuki from the novel "The Twelve Chairs", where the "grandmaster" O. Bender held a session of a simultaneous game of chess. In connection with this statement, since 1995, the All-Russian annual festival satire and humor of Benderiad - which just made it possible to found a museum of satire and humor. The museum funds have many exhibits that originally interpret the image of the great strategist.

Wooden figure "Ostap". Kozmodemyansky sculptor Yuri Viktorovich Kirillov unusually approached the image of the image of Ostap. Sculpture in human growth in the style of constructivism, a kind of generalized image resembling a robot, in the same headdress and scarf, but with a "heart - fiery engine winking at visitors and extending his hand for a friendly handshake.

Kozmodemyanskaya artist Lyubov Nikolaevna Karatonova in her painting “Ostap in Vasyuki” shows Ostap the Dreamer. He walks around the city with a light gait, not noticing the streets, houses, passers-by, cabs passing by him as if in a dream, and around him a lot of ideas and daring plans float in the air - in the center of which the idea of ​​a chess tournament hovers like a magic carpet in front of him.

As many as three expositions by the Yoshkarolinsky artist Sergei Vasilyevich Prutov are devoted to the novels of Ilf and Petrov. They are called "Skryabin", "Ippolit Matveyevich at the bulletin board" and "Vasyuki - the navel of the earth." The largest of them is "Vasyuki - the navel of the Earth." In the foreground is the famous scene from the novel The Twelve Chairs, when a rook disappeared from the board of a one-eyed chess player. The figures of the "grandmaster" and the amateur are made in full height. In the background is the futuristic landscape of New Vasyukov, the three-dimensionality of which smoothly turns into a two-dimensional image. There is a diamond chair on the ceiling, which seems to be close, but there is no way to get it. But Ostap pays no attention to his surroundings; he smiles, he runs the new scale combinations in his mind. Indeed, as connoisseurs of the novel "The Twelve Chairs" often noted, for O. Bender money was never a goal; the main thing is the path to the goal, and the more difficult it is, the more interesting, the better.

The paintings of another Yoshkarolinsky artist, Anatoly Alexandrovich Smirnov, are very unusual. His art style is pop art. These are philosophical collages, which usually contain coins (including rare items), watch parts and other little things that we often do not pay attention to in Everyday life. Together, it all looks impressive. Ideas for paintings come to Anatoly Smirnov in a dream. Anatoly Alexandrovich dedicated one of his paintings to the great strategist. "Ostap in the mirror." The portrait of O. Bender is depicted directly on the reflective surface of the mirror, and the visitor, examining the picture, sees both his own reflection and Ostap in it. Which, apparently, should mean: there is a piece of the great combinator in each of us.

The second hall of the museum presents paintings by the Chuvash cartoonist Andrey Vasiliev, illustrating the main scenes of Ostap's stay in Vasyuki. Here is the bright and emotional speech of the "grandmaster" Bender about New Vasyuki - New Moscow, and the insoluble conflict between Ostap and the one-eyed chess player during a simultaneous game of chess, and the boat race along the Volga, culminating in a mass bathing of Vasyukin amateurs. The artist did not forget about his native Cheboksary either, depicting the meeting of O. Bender and Ippolit Matveyevich with a chair that they had previously thrown out from the Skryabin motor ship. Ostap and other characters of the novel "The Twelve Chairs" are shown by Andrey Vasiliev in a caricatured, caricatured form, worthy of satirical magazines such as "Crocodile" or Yoshkarolinsky "Pachemysh" ("Wasp").

The museum of satire and humor also contains exhibits donated to the museum by the Pachemysh magazine, which is a sponsor of the festival of satire and humor Benderiada. Chief Editor magazine, Vitaly Shkalin, gave the museum a pair of stylized wasps made of papier-mâché, symbols of "Pachemysh", dressed up by Ostap Bender.

The wooden “Tavern “Osya and K⁰”” was donated to the Museum of Satire and Humor by woodcarver Vladimir Vasilyevich Moiseev. Joyful visitors pose against the backdrop of a signboard for a drinking establishment, in front of an entrance decorated with a stylized Roman column; huge sunflowers and large ripe fruits grow on the sides of the inn. Fans of the novel "The Twelve Chairs", having connected their imagination, can try to find the owners of the institution here.

Thus, the novels by I. Ilf and E. Petrov "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf", and the image of Ostap Bender himself, left a noticeable mark in art, and continue to influence the development current trends artistic creativity. In turn, the Kozmodemyansky Museum of Satire and Humor annually replenishes its collections and invites visitors to visit it by the beginning of the tourist season.

Emelin E. V., Senior Researcher
employee of the storage department of MU KMK