"The Night Before Christmas": summary and comments

At the last before Christmas a clear and frosty night, a witch flew out of a hut through a pipe. She, flickering in the sky, began to collect the stars in the sleeve. This is how Nikolai Gogol 's fairy tale "The Night Before Christmas" begins, the summary of which will be presented in this article.

And on the other side of the sky, a black dot flew out, well, quite like "provincial Solicitor in uniform. " He stole a month from the sky, thinking that in this way he would pity the blacksmith Vakule, and he will not be able to come to his beloved beauty Oksana, because her father, the Cossack Chub, will be afraid to leave the house on a dark night.

But, alas, the dream of a traitor who harbored an insult to Vakula, who painted him in the church, did not come true. As "The Night Before Christmas" tells, the short content that you read, Chub could not resist the desire to try the glorious warren at the clerk, and Vakula came to Oksana unhindered.

True, his confessions cause the windy beauty only ridicule. Frustrated, he goes to open the door, in which someone knocks, with one desire, to hump the sides of the first person. And Chub, who returned home and saw on the threshold of the angry Vakula, immediately rewarded him with jerks, was frightened, thinking that he had gone somehow wrong.

So he went to the witch Soloha, the mother of the blacksmith, not knowing that she already had a devil himself. True, as the "Christmas Eve" tells you, the brief content of which you read, the defeated mistress was forced to hide it in a sack, because her head came to her. But he also had to hide in a sack from the deacon who had come "to the light". And he, hearing a knock on the door, also hid in a sack. Chub, and this he knocked, did not long coo with the landlady - the angry Vakula returned home, to whom the beloved, laughing, said that she would go after him only if he would bring those cherevichki that the queen herself had!

Seeing the bags in the middle of the hut, the guy, annoyed and sad, even without noticing their gravity, decides to take the "rub" away. But on the way he is met by Oksana, who, for all of them, reminds us again of the tussles. And the blacksmith, not seeing the light, runs, where his eyes look, with only one small bag behind him.

As Vakula discovered in him a feature and how he forced him to obey, he tells in detail "The Night Before Christmas", a brief summary of which is now in front of you. But after all the adventures, the goat-legged took the blacksmith straight to St. Petersburg to the Zaporozhians, who passed through the summer through Dikanka. With the help of an evil force, Vakula urges them to take themselves to an audience with the queen. And rushing to the floor in front of her, begging for cherevichki.

The rumors at that time were rushing around the village, unable to convey a brief summary. "The Night Before Christmas" tells about this brightly and in detail. One thing is clear that the result of gossip poor Oksana could not find a place. It was said that Vakula was drowned and hanged himself, and she felt guilty and completely exhausted during the night. In the meantime, the blacksmith, having overslept after the morning trip, gathered in the house to his beloved to forgive her hands. What was his happiness, when Oksana joyfully exclaimed that she loved him and so, without the tinkers!

The surprising end of this story is colorfully described by NV Gogol. "The Night Before Christmas", the brief content of which was given to you, brightly and unforgettably transmits events similar to a fairy tale. Read this book, and you will forever love and its heroes, and the great writer.