Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
A Ukrainian beekeeper sets down what gets told on winter nights at his farm: a devil who pockets the moon on Christmas Eve, a blacksmith who flies to Petersburg to fetch the Tsarina's slippers, a lost charter, a drowned girl who needs a witch picked out from among her sisters. Village fairs, card games played against the dead and grandfathers who wake in the wrong place run alongside a strain of real horror out of the Cossack past. Gogol's first success, written in Petersburg by a homesick provincial who was mailing his mother for costume details and superstitions while he worked.
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