The Night Before Christmas

Nikolai Gogol

1831
On Christmas Eve, the devil plays mischief on Dikanka by stealing the moon and playing tricks on blacksmith Vakula who is trying to win the affection of the beautiful Oksana.
Genres: christmas, short-stories, fantasy, russia, russian-literature, 19th-century, fairy-tales, holiday
6 issues
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