The Night Before Christmas

The story "The Night Before Christmas" is the most famous work from the cycle "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", written by the great Russian playwright Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The story was first published in St. Petersburg in 1832. Vakula the blacksmith, the main character of the story, goes to St. Petersburg to get slippers for his beloved Oksana. The fantastic plot of the story harmonious...