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The story "The Night Before Christmas" is the most famous work from the cycle "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" by Nikolai Gogol. Vakula the blacksmith, the protagonist of the story, goes to St Petersburg to buy shoes for his beloved Oksana. The fantastic plot of the story harmoniously combines real heroes and fairy-tale characters.

The literary translation of the work was made by the outstanding Ukrainian poet Maksym Tadeevich Rylsky.

Nikolai Gogol's book «The Witch» is a real book of horrors, which raises questions of faith and unbelief, glorifies the power of prayer and fortitude. Finding himself in the house of a witch, the seminarian-philosopher Khoma Brut barely escapes from her hands and tries to forget what happened as a terrible dream. But the rector orders him to read prayers for three days at the coffin of a dead young lady, who later turned out to be the very witch Khoma was not going to meet for any reason. Khoma has to survive for three nights... The story "The Witch" enjoys unchanging popular love, has been filmed many times, and its magical influence is still shrouded in mystery.