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 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.

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 a 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 of the real Ostap Bender become known. 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 Natan 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

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 MP 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 complicated 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!