
The last day before Christmas has ended, a starry clear night has come. "The Night Before Christmas" begins with the following events. The representatives of the human race in the work include the blacksmith Vakula, Oksana, her father Chub, the head, the clerk, the queen and others. In the story called "The Night Before Christmas" the heroes - ordinary people - interact with fairy-tale characters. Another vivid image is Patsyuk, who could cure people of various diseases and strangely ate dumplings, which themselves fell into his mouth, dipped in sour cream.

In the story written by Gogol ("The Night Before Christmas"), there are a number of fairy-tale characters as characters: the devil who stole the month, the witch Solokha, cutting the sky on her broomstick. Events take place in Ukraine, in Dikanka. This work was published in 1832, and its action refers chronologically to the period of the reign of Catherine II, more precisely, the last deputation of the Cossacks held in 1775.


It is part of a cycle called "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka". The story "The Night Before Christmas" is a work written by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol.
