On Friday, we're rounding up the activities of the devil, the witch and the lovers in Tchaikovsky's 1887 opera Cherevichki from the story of Christmas Eve by Gogol.
So sink back into traditional Russian lore.
I went looking for the Gogol story online in English - no luck.
But look what I found!
The Night Before Christmas, the 1913 silent movie based on Gogol's "Christmas Eve", with intertitles in Russian and English, on Wikimedia Commons.
It's 45 minutes of amazing images, silent movie characterisations and action. And the costumes!
