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Here already for nearly a century did not lose their popularity of the works of Ilf and Petrov about the adventures of the great schemer. During this period, the novels "12 chairs" and "Golden calf" has survived several adaptations, and phrases from them have long been a popular. Few people know that Bender is not a collective character. He had a real prototype — the inspector of the Odessa criminal investigation Department Ostap shore, whose life was not less exciting than his literary counterpart.



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...In the spring of 1927 in the newspaper "Gudok" entered the imposing middle-aged man. He went to the two young reporters whose names were Ilf and Petrov. Evgeny Petrov familiarly greeted the newcomer, because it was his brother Valentin Kataev. Soviet writer winked at both and said he wants to hire them as "literary blacks." From Kataev was born the idea for the book, and young reporters were asked to put it in literary form. According to the idea of the writer, a leader of district nobility dough trying to find the jewels sewn into one of twelve chairs.

Tandem immediately set to work. Literary characters Ilf and Petrov "wrote off" from their surroundings. Almost everyone was a prototype. One of the episodic characters was a mutual acquaintance of writers, an inspector of criminal investigation Department of Odessa, whose name was Ostap shore. Name the authors decided to leave, but the name was changed to Bender. As of writing this episodic character and then came to the fore, "the jostling elbows of the other heroes."

When Ilf and Petrov brought the manuscript Kataeva, he realized that the composition was quite different than he had expected initially. Valentin Petrovich decided to remove his name from the authors list, but demanded by Ilf and Petrov to print on the first page of the published novel for his dedication.



When the novel gained immense popularity, fans began to look for the prototype of the main character. Some Arab scholars seriously argued that Bender was a Syrian, their Uzbek opponents have an opinion about its Turkic origin. Only in the late twentieth century, it became known the name of the real Ostap Bender. It was Osip V. shore. Friends called him a Bender. The fate of this person there was not less exciting than its literary character.



Ostap shore was born in 1899 in Odessa. In 1916, he enrolled in the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, but to finish it the young man pleaded. There was the October revolution. The way home took Ostap about a year. During this time he had to wander, get in trouble, to escape from his pursuers. Some of the adventures that we shore told his friends, reflected in the novel.



When Ostap shore reached Odessa, she has changed beyond recognition. From the thriving city of enterprising businessmen and the Italian Opera it has turned into a place controlled by gangs. It was not surprising, because for three years after the revolution in Odessa, the authorities changed fourteen times. Residents of the city United in the national guard to combat crime, and most zealous fighters for justice was awarded the title of inspectors of the criminal investigation. They became Ostap shore. The growth of 190 cm, remarkable strength and keen sense of justice made Shor terror for criminals of Odessa.



Several times his life hung in the balance, but thanks to sharp mind and lightning reaction, Ostap always managed to slip away. You can not say about his brother. Nathan Shor was a famous writer who worked under the pseudonym Nathan Violet. He was going to marry. Nathan chose his bride furniture for a future apartment when he was approached by three men and asked his name, and shot at point blank range. Criminals simply confused Ostap with his brother.



Ostap shore is very painful perceived the death of his brother and after a while he left CID and went to Moscow. Because of its impulsive character Ostap constantly gets in all sorts of trouble. The expression of literary character: "My dad was a Turkish subjects" belongs to shore. When the question arose of the military service, Ostap often uttered this phrase. The fact that children of aliens were exempt from military service.

To hint at the real Ostap in the criminal investigation, Ilf and Petrov several times specific phrases in the novel pointed to the fact that their main character is a good detective. In the Chapter "etc." Bender busily prepares a report from the scene: "Both bodies lie with their feet to the Southeast and heads Northwest. Body lacerations, caused apparently by some blunt instrument."



When the book "12 chairs" and "Golden calf" was released, Ostap shore appeared to the authors and persistently demanded to pay for charged him. Ilf and Petrov were in disbelief and tried to explain, but at that time Ostap laughed. He remained in writers for the night and told them about his adventures. On the morning of Ilf and Petrov woke up full of confidence that will publish the third part of the adventures of the great schemer. But the book was never written, because Ilya Ilf came down with tuberculosis.



Sam Ostap shore lived up to 80 years. All this time, he wandered across the Soviet Union. In 1978 he released the biographical novel by Valentin Kataev "my Diamond crown", which contained obvious hints who was written off the image of Ostap Bender.

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