Christmas Eve

The story "The Night Before Christmas" is one of the most famous works of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, it is included in the wonderful cycle of the writer "Evenings on the Farm near Dikanka".
Clear frosty night on the eve of Christmas - the time when miracles occur and desires come true. It is on this night that life on the farm is filled with extraordinary events: important farmers fall into bags, a charming witch flies into a chimney, and an unlucky hell, which stole a month, is forced to drag a local blacksmith Vakula in St. Petersburg - to get the cuttings that the Queen herself is, in, in A gift to the young beauty Oksana.
Colorious, with subtle humor, the illustrations of Evgeny Antonenkov reflect the atmosphere of warmth and sincerity reigning before the holiday in a snowy village.
For secondary school age