The Golden Calf

«The Golden Calf» – a sequel to the adventures of the great con man Ostap Bender. After the fiasco with the chairs, he, along with new accomplices – Shura Balaganov and Mikhail Panikovsky, goes to the city of Chernomorsk to get money from an unremarkable clerk who is actually an underground Soviet millionaire, Koreiko. A vivid satire on the life and morals of the 1930s, the author's signature humor, and charismatic characters of the novel immediately found favor with all readers outraged by the ending of «The Twelve Chairs».