May Night or The Drowned One

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May Night or Die Drowned , also Eine Mayacht or Die Drowned and Die Mayacht or Die Drowned ( Russian Майская ночь, или Утопленница , Maiskaja notsch, ili Utoplenniza ), is a story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol and was published in 1829/1830. The story was recorded in the first part of the evenings in the hamlet near Dikanka .

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In the Ukrainian village N .: The young Cossack Levko, son of the peasant mayor Yevtuch Makohonenko and the 17-year-old Cossack daughter Hanna Petrichenk are in love. Lewko's father is against the couple's marriage.

Hanna, who lives in a hut, wants to hear from Lewko the story of the manor house by the deep pond opposite. Lewko reluctantly tells. A widowed Cossack riding master lived there with his daughter, a fine lady. The Rittmeister took a second wife. The stepmother tormented the young lady so much that, chased away by her father, she threw herself into that deep pond. At the bottom the young lady found several drowned girls who looked like one another. One night the Rittmeister's daughter pulled her nasty stepmother down to the bottom of the pond. The stepmother knew what to do; quickly transformed into one of the identical girls and was no longer recognizable to this day.

Lewko has to experience how his widowed father, a wicked womanizer, approaches Hanna. Village boys band together against the authoritarian peasant mayor. Lewko becomes their leader. When the hooded, soot-smeared boys throw in the window pane of the mayor, the attacked has the ringleader of the rascals locked up by his hall guards. But Lewko is released, goes to the deep pond at night and sees the drowned Rittmeister's daughter in the mirror of the manor house. She is still tormented by her unrecognizable stepmother. Levko helps the virgin recognize the stepmother. As a reward, he receives a letter from the redeemed to his father, the mayor, written by his supreme superior, the Imperial Commissioner Kosma Derkach-Drischpanowskij. In it the mayor is ordered, among other things, to marry Lewko and Hanna. The command will be executed immediately.

Adaptations

Opera

filming

  • 1952 Soviet Union , Maxim Gorki film studio, Moscow: May night - film narration by Alexander Rou with Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Dossenko as Levko and Tatjana Georgievna Konjuchowa (* 1932) as Hanna.

Used edition

  • May Night or The Drowned One. German by Korfiz Holm , pp. 153–201 in Johannes von Guenther (Ed.): Nikolai Gogol: Gesammelte Werke. Volume I. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1952

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian May Night (opera)
  2. ^ Russian film studio Maxim Gorki