Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1829-32. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol was twenty-two. The writer was born in the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi near Poltava, and he spent his life in Ukraine up to the age of nineteen. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. In a series of letters to his mother, he asked her to write down descriptions of village customs, dress, superstitions, and old stories. These were also used as primary sources.©&â IE Vorobev V.A.; ©&â Publishing House Soyuz
