Evenings in a village near Dikanka, by Nikolai Gogol... The devil steals the moon to prevent the blacksmith Levko from marrying his beloved Aksana... Pandemonium reigns in the market due to the panic caused by the "red jacket"... Village notables hide in bags of coal in the hut of the witch Solokha ... In the form of black comedy, Gogol depicts the life of simple villagers in the Ukrainian countryside, through the stories told by the beekeeper Banko and his guests. "Evenings" was turned into a movie, a television series, and theatrical performances that are still being shown today. "Gogol laughed and we laughed all his life, and we laughed so long until we began to cry at the end." Dostoyevsky

نيقولاي فاسيليفتش غوغول كاتب روسي يُعد من آباء الأدب الروسي. وُلد في في 1 ابريل 1809 وتوفي في 4 مارس 1852. من أعماله الأكثر شهرة رواية النفوس الميتة وقصته القصيرة المعطف، بالإضافة إلى المسرحيتين الكوميديتين المفتش العام وخطوبة.