The Fair at Sorochyntsi (short story)
Short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands).