In one appearance, this character  serves as the leader of a group which gets around in a car dubbed "The Antelope," and schemes to bilk  mil ionaire Alexander Koreiko out of his money, while in another appearance, this character promises the  people of the town of Vasyuki that he wil organize an "interplanetary chess tournament" there.
In one appearance, this character masquerades as the son of the great Lieutenant Schmidt in order to  con a local official. The only personal detail revealed by this character is that his father was a Turkish  subject, and he frequently refers to himself as the "great combinator." In one appearance, this character  serves as the leader of a group which gets around in a car dubbed "The Antelope," and schemes to bilk  mil ionaire Alexander Koreiko out of his money, while in another appearance, this character promises the  people of the town of Vasyuki that he wil organize an "interplanetary chess tournament" there. Although  this character's creators had Kisa Vorobyaninov kil him in the first novel in which he appeared, and  whose plot was concerned with the location of jewels supposedly stashed in the title objects, he was so  popular that he was resurrected for that novel's sequel, The Golden Calf. For ten points, identify this  picaresque character created by Ilf and Petrov, the main protagonist of The Twelve Chairs.
In one appearance, this character masquerades as the son of the great Lieutenant Schmidt in order to  con a local official.
Ostap Suleiman Berta Maria Bender-bey [accept either name]