Novogodnie istorii. Russkaya klassika

Po drevnim verovaniyam, moment nastupleniya novogo goda nenadolgo stiraet granitsu mezhdu mirom zhivyh i mertvyh. V etu volshebnuyu noch tvoryatsya chudesa — lyudi grezyat nayavu, zaglyadyvayut v buduschee i sporyat s chertom, a glavnoe — zhdut, kogda zhe zagoritsya zvezda novoy nadezhdy. Traditsii veselyh kolyadok i svyatochnyh rasskazov podderzhivali mnogie russkie pisateli, v chisle kotoryh Gogol, Leskov, Dostoevskiy i Chehov. Smeshnye i pouchitelnye, grustnye i trogatelnye — ih rozhdestvenskie proizvedeniya ne ostavyat vas ravnodushnymi. Ved v takuyu noch mozhet proizoyti vse, chto ugodno!