Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. Selected Works

A series of small works under the general title "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" is the first prose experience of the great Russian writer N. V. Gogol, immediately noticed by Pushkin and receiving his enthusiastic evaluation. Touching, kind, filled with gentle humor, the stories immerse the reader in the glorious era of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, the atmosphere of terrifying Ukrainian legends and romantic tales.