St. John's Eve

short story by Nikolai Gogol
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St. John's Eve
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Summary

St. John's Eve is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (487 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Nikolai Gogol[3]
  • Genre: horror fiction[4]
  • Follows: The Fair at Sorochyntsi[5]
  • Followed by: May Night, or the Drowned Maiden[6]
  • Commons category: St. John's Eve (short story)[7]
  • Language of work or name: Russian[8]
  • Country of origin: Russian Empire[9]
  • Publication date: 1830[10]
  • Has edition or translation: St. John's Eve[11]
  • Published in: Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka[12], Otechestvennye Zapiski[13]
  • Title: Вечер накануне Ивана Купала[14]
  • Copyright status: public domain[15]
  • Form of creative work: novella[16]

Why It Matters

St. John's Eve has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'fr', 'ko', 'ru', 'uk']
    Sitelink count → 12
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