The Little Golden Calf is a satirical picaresque novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1931. Its main character, Ostap Bender, also appears in a previous novel by the authors called The

Ostap Bender is a fictional con man and the central antiheroic protagonist in the novels The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf written by Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. The novels