The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol

This is the story of ordinary residents of a Ukrainian village on the Holy Night. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. The night before Christmas in the hamlet near Dykanka is full of surprises, here you can meet a witch and an imp, as well as in an instant visit the Tsarina.

He burned the second part of Dead Souls, and died in 1852 after subjecting himself to a severe regime of fasting. It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot.

He returned to Russia and fell under the influence of a spiritual director who told him to destroy his writings as they were sinful. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1848, but was bitterly disappointed in the lack of feeling that the journey kindled. He lived a great deal abroad, mostly in Rome, and in his last years became increasingly prey to religious mania and despair. Gogol also wrote the play The Inspector (1836), Dead Souls (1842), and several moralizing essays defending the Tsarist regime, to the horror of his liberal and radical friends. 'The Night Before Christmas' by Nikolai Gogol Buy on Amazon Add to library For something a bit different, try this time-honored Ukrainian folktale by Nikolai Gogol. Diary of a Madman and The Story of the Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich appeared in 1934, The Nose in 1836, and The Overcoat in 1842. He even managed for a short period to be Professor of History at the University of St. Gogol was introduced to Zhukovsky, the romantic poet, and to Pushkin, and with the publication of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831) he had an entr e to all the leading literary salons. He went to St Petersburg in 1829 and with the help of a friend gained a post in one of the government ministries. He attended school in N zhin and gained a reputation for his theatrical abilities. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809 his family were small gentry of Ukrainian cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales.

The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol