premiere at the gillikon opera: cherevichki is a stage masterpiece, bringing to gogol's dekanka to thef tchaikovsky, and the audience believes in magic, stories that we know and love and the atmosphere of a fairy tale, which helps to create artificial special effects, in general, magic, that's all. sit back, it's the night before christmas. the stars disappear from the sky , the south howls, a demon steals the moon , rich genre colors spill over the snowy landscapes of little russia, images of goggol and cheikovsky, all the bright colors that you can imagine, because this is the color of the village, i need people, not dolls, that’s how tchaikovsky spoke about the opera of his dreams, that’s how the little slips became, written in one breath, in one summer of 1874, and interlinear translation is not needed, gogol tells you what they’re singing about, the demon whispered to solokhi that they usually whisper to the entire female race. in gogal, chikovsky adored what each of us had, the poetry of the depiction of folk life, the soft, gentle humor in the depictions of ordinary people, the