Ночь перед Рождеством ил. Е. Шафранской

The collection "The Night Before Christmas" by N. V. Gogol is presented in the series "Books for Extracurricular Reading". This is a selection of the main works of Russian and foreign authors included in the school curriculum.
The book contains selected... stories from the cycle "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". Among them, for example, are such titles as "An Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala", "May Night, or The Drowned Girl", "The Enchanted Place"… On the pages, you will find bright, expressive illustrations by Elena Shafransky.
The best works of children's literature with color illustrations will help instill a love of reading in children.
Moreover, the "Books for Extracurricular Reading" form a unified cycle with such book series as "Reading Before School" and "Reading According to the School Curriculum".