Saksagan

“What did you promise for the girl?” thundered Basavriuk; and like a shot he was on his back. The witch stamped her foot; a...

Then he parted the thorn-bushes with a knotty stick, and before him stood a tiny farmhouse. Basavriuk smote it with his fist, and the...

“Do you see before you three hillocks? There are a great many kinds of flowers upon them. May some power keep you from plucking...

My late grandfather`s aunt was somewhat surprised at seeing Peter at the tavern, at an hour when good men go to morning mass; and...

Recovering himself, he took his grandfather`s hunting whip from the wall, and was about to belabor Peter`s back with it, when Pidorka`s little six-year-old...

She said that his father had been in Zaporozhe, and had been taken prisoner by the Turks, amongst whom he underwent God only knows...

My grandfather`s aunt, who kept at that time a tavern, in which Basavriuk (as they called this devil-man) often caroused, said that no consideration...

These people laugh at everything you tell them. Along comes one of them and doesn`t believe in witches! Yes, glory to God that I...

My grandfather (the kingdom of heaven be his! may he eat only wheaten rolls and poppy-seed cakes with honey, in the other world!) Could...

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)Born in the Ukraine, Gogol was in many respects the founder of modern Russian literature. His stories of rural life collected under...