Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. This was Gogol's groundbreaking work, though not his first, and formed the core of his style, especially his sense of the macabre. It was this collection that proved he was a new power in Russian literature with unqiue innovation and a carefully arranged mingling of the horrifying and the humorous. Alexander Pushkin had a heavy influence on the writing of the collection, which features references to "Little Russia" (Ukraine), where Gogol spent the early years of his life.
