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