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May Night, or the Drowned Maiden

by Nikolai Gogol · first published 1831

"May Night, or the Drowned Maiden" (Russian: «Майская ночь, или Утопленница», romanized: Mayskaya noch', ili Utoplennitsa, 1831) is the third tale in the collection of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola Lysenko.

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