A film adaptation of Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol’s novel “The Night Before Christmas” from the series “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” was staged by Aleksandr Rou, the “master of film fairy-tale”. A fairy tale story is played out that happened on a farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when village blacksmith Vakula, riding a devil, brought Tsarina’s shoes to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, from St. Petersburg.