Ильф и Петров
Antony Bulatovich was most probably the original for the grotesque Schema-Hussar Alexei Bulanovich from the novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov. He is also the hero of Valentin Pikul's story "The Hussar on a Camel". In addition he is the hero of the novel "The Name of Hero" by Richard Seltzer (published by Houghton Mifflin in 1981). The complete text of that novel is online for free at http://www.seltzerbooks.com/hero.html