St John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol - audiobook. MagneonBooks This short story was famously the main inspiration for the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's tone poem, Night on Bald Mountain, made known …More
St John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol - audiobook.
MagneonBooks This short story was famously the main inspiration for the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's tone poem, Night on Bald Mountain, made known to the wider international audience by its use in Disney's Fantasia.
"St. John's Eve" (Russian: Вечер накануне Ивана Купала; translit. Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala) is the second tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.[1] It was first published in 1830 in the literary Russian periodical Otechestvennye Zapiski in February and March issues, and in the book form in 1831.
There is no doubt that it is this view of urbanization that led Gogol through most of his written work. For him, Ukraine was poor, but in her poverty she escaped the death and disease of European urbanization. He writes concerning the poor appearance of the village in question: “It wasn’t really poverty, because almost everybody went out Cossacking and got large amounts of goods in faraway lands …More
MagneonBooks This short story was famously the main inspiration for the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's tone poem, Night on Bald Mountain, made known to the wider international audience by its use in Disney's Fantasia.
"St. John's Eve" (Russian: Вечер накануне Ивана Купала; translit. Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala) is the second tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.[1] It was first published in 1830 in the literary Russian periodical Otechestvennye Zapiski in February and March issues, and in the book form in 1831.
There is no doubt that it is this view of urbanization that led Gogol through most of his written work. For him, Ukraine was poor, but in her poverty she escaped the death and disease of European urbanization. He writes concerning the poor appearance of the village in question: “It wasn’t really poverty, because almost everybody went out Cossacking and got large amounts of goods in faraway lands …More