Character History
The literary hero, the character of the story of Nikolai Gogol "Night before Christmas" from the cycle "Evenings on the farm near Dikanka." Kuznets, in love with the beauty of Oksana - the daughter of a rich Cossack. For the sake of love, the girls are associated with a feature and flies to Petersburg to ask for Cherevichki (shoes) in the queen.History of creation
The story of Nikolai Gogol "Night before Christmas" was written in the period from 1830 to 1832. The exact date of writing a story is unknown, but in 1832 the work was already first published as part of the collection "Tale published by the Pazichnik Rudym Pankom", printed in Plushar printing house in St. Petersburg.
The name of the hero - vacuum - comes from the church name Vucol. That, in turn, has a Greek origin and translates as a "shepherd".
"Christmas Eve"
The time of action of the story is the last quarter of the XVIII century, the era of the reign of Catherine the second. The place is the Ukrainian village of Dikanka. Kuznets Vakula, "Silacha and Children, at least where," dries in Oksana, the daughter of the rich Cossack Chuba, and the feature of the tooth on the blacksmith. The fact is that the vacuum painted the wall by the Church by the image of a terrible court and painted there in such an unsightly form that the children were afraid. The vengeful feature stole a month from the sky, so that Oksana's father could not leave the house from home to Giaku, and therefore I could not come to the beloved.
Chub still goes to visit, and Oksana remains one at home, and the vacuum comes to the girl. Oksana does not favor the blacksmith and mocking over. The Chub, meanwhile, it suffers in the dark and eventually returns to his own hut, but hears the voice of a blacksmith from the inside and thinks that because of the bad weather, its own home with a stranger was confused. Then Chub decides to go to Solokh - Mother Vakula.
To Oksana, meanwhile, come girlfriends. One on the legs of the shoes, embroidered with gold. Looking at them, Oksana says Vakula, which will be married if the hero will achieve Cherevichki Tsaritsyna for her.
In the meantime, the house of the mother's vacuum, a rustic witch, sits hell. When a local head is unexpected to a woman, the features are hiding in a bag, abandoned in the middle of the hut. Then he comes to the deck, and the head is hiding in another bag. Chub comes next, and the prick has to stop playing with salt and also climb into the bag.
These bags threw in the middle of the hut blacksmith vacules. The hero returns from Oksana to the mother's house, and Chubu also has to hide in the bag so as not to get a vacuum on the eyes. Vakula takes off her bags until the mother talks with a kind of Cossack outside. Bags unexpectedly sick, but Blacksmith thinks that it is hard with him in the soul after conversation with Oksana, and bags are flexing him to the ground because of this.
There are car beads and among them Oksana, who again teases the Blacksmith Cherevichki. The character masters the grief, and he decides to be drowning. Vacula throws bags, except the lighter, and leaves. However, on the road, the hero calms down and decides to start to go to the sorcerer on the nicknamed Puzzy Batzuk to ask the Togo Council, as can be contacted.
The boy responds to the blacksmith, that there is no need to search for a damn, since the damn of the vacuum shoulder. With these words, the features get out of a bag that carules carries, and promises the hero that he will receive Oksana the same night.
The blacksmith grabs the feature behind the tail and threatens that he will cross it if the hell will not obey. Soaking in this way unclean, the vacuum flies on the draw in St. Petersburg straight to the queen to ask for cryvers.
In St. Petersburg, Vakula first goes to familiar Zaporizhzhya Cossacks. Not without the help of the trait, the hero seeks to take on a reception to Catherine the second. In the Palace, the vacuum admires painting and other thin work, and being in front of the queen, asks shoes with royal legs. Catherine Tronuts Vaculina Simpleness and gives a blacksmith of shoes.
Meanwhile, in the Dikanka, they guess where Blacksmith was having. Baba gossip that the vacules imposed hands on himself - that was drowned, or hanged himself. These conversations are frustrated by Oksana, the raining girl can not fall asleep, and by morning, he understands that in love with the blacksmith.
The vacuum in the meantime returns to his native village, goes to a posbuch with gifts and asks Oksana's hands. Chub meets consent, and the maiden is already ready to marry a vacuum and without queenic hens. Vakula marries and, inspired by the journey to St. Petersburg, paints his own hut and church with paints. Further biography of the hero is unknown.
Quotes
"So, it's she! Standing like the queen, and shines black eyes! She tells her something prominent fub; True, funny, because she laughs. "" ... on the wall on the side, how to enter the church, Namavalal Vakula Damn in hell, such a nasty that everyone was spoiled when they were passing by; And the women, as soon as they were praised on their hands, they brought him to the picture and said: "He bicked, Yak Kaka Namaleevan!" - And the child, holding the tears, mowed on the picture and pledged to his mother's chest. "" But, God you My, why is it so damn good? Her gaze, and speech, and everything, well, like this and burns, and burns ... No, the nememo is already reset yourself! It is time to put an end to everything: disappear of the soul, I will go get drunk in proluba, and remember as called ".Shielding
The first film "Night Before Christmas" was still black and white and dumb. The film was removed in 1913 director Vladislav Oreevich. The role of the vacuum was performed by actor Pyotr Lopukhin. The screen is strictly adhered to the literary source, but there are some differences.
In those days in Russia, it was forbidden to depict the members of the royal family. Therefore, instead of Catherine, the second shoes for Oksana Kuzneztsu gives Prince Grigory Potmkin. Gogol also occurs with the empress itself, and she himself handles Cherevichki blacksmith.
In 1944, a film-opera called "Cherevichki" directories Mikhail Shapiro and Hope Kosheverova. The role of the vacuum here performed the opera singer Grigory Bolshakov. The film was removed according to Opere Peter Tchaikovsky "Cherevichki", the libretto for which it is written on the reasons "Night before Christmas" by the famous poet Yakov Polonsky. Film black and white.
The first color screening was published in 1961. This film-tale of the director Alexander Row "Evening on the farm near Dikanka" with Yuri Tavrov in the role of the Kuznez Vakula and Lyudmila Maznikova as Oksana. For filming in the vicinity of the city of Kirovsk, the Murmansk region was built a fabulous Ukrainian village, and local residents attracted for mass scenes. The film came out short - a little more than an hour.
In 2001, the Musical film "Evenings on the farm near Dikanka" of joint Ukrainian-Russian production was released. Roles were performed by representatives of the Russian and Ukrainian pop. The blacksmith vacuum played Oleg Violin, and the damn - Philip Kirkorov. The musical was released on New Year's Eve from 2001 for 2002 on the Russian Channel "ORT" and Ukrainian Inter.
The film consists of two episodes. In the first place of action, the Ukrainian village of Dikanka becomes, and in the second blacksmith vacule it turns out in St. Petersburg. Petersburg Palace interiors were filmed in the Kiev Mariinsky Palace.
In 1951, the "night in front of Christmas" was published. This is a drawing cartoon authorship of Valentina's sisters and Zinaida Brumberg, which from the 30s to the 70s of the twentieth century created many of the animated films known in the Soviet times. The role of the Kuznez Vakula voiced actor Nikolay Gritsenko.
In 1997, another one, this time the puppet cartoon "Night Before Christmas" directed by Catherine Mikhailova. Vakula is voiced by actor Leonid Kuravlev. Cartoon short, goes 26 minutes.