A second live action movie based on the story was made in the Soviet Union in 1961. A silent movie adaptation was made in Russia in 1913. However, Vakula outwits the Devil and forces him to help in winning Oksana's hand in marriage.Īdaptations of the story include the 1876 opera Vakula the Smith and the 1887 opera Cherevichki, both of which have music by Tchaikovsky, and the 1895 opera Christmas Eve with music by Rimsky-Korsakov. The Devil takes exception to an unflattering picture that Vakula has painted of him and decides to take his revenge on the young man by preventing him from seeing his sweetheart Oksana. The protagonist of the story is a young man named Vakula, a blacksmith and talented amateur artist whose mother, Solokha, is a witch who has many lovers. It was first published in 1832 in the second volume of Gogol's short story anthology Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.
"Christmas Eve" (Russian: "Ночь перед Рождеством", Noch pered Rozhdestvom also known in English as "The Night Before Christmas" and "The Night of Christmas Eve") is a short story by the Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol which contains elements of comedy, fantasy and romance. Ivan Mozzhukhin as the Devil in The Night Before Christmas, a 1913 silent movie adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's "Christmas Eve".
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