The Viy
Author: Nikolai Gogol
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Languages: RU, English, French
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Short story
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Three seminary students set out for the holidays, and the philosopher Thomas Brutus is drawn into a nightmarish trial with a witch, a dead young lady, and the demons of an old church.
Characters
- Thomas Brutus — Philosophy student: A jovial seminary student forced to read prayers over the dead young lady.
- The young lady — The colonel’s daughter: The beautiful colonel’s daughter whose death reveals her witchlike nature.
- The Viy — Monster: An underworld creature with an iron face and eyelids hanging to the ground.
- Khalava — Theology student: Thomas’s tall, gloomy companion, inclined to steal whatever lies near him.
- Tiberius Gorobetz — Rhetoric student: A young student in Thomas’s company who later becomes a philosopher.
- The colonel — The young lady’s father: An old Cossack officer who insists on carrying out his daughter’s last wish.
- Javtuch — Cossack overseer: A stern Cossack set to watch Thomas and bring him back from escape.
- Dorosch — Storytelling Cossack: A talkative Cossack who tells stories about the young lady’s witchcraft.
- Spirid — Groom: A servant who tells the story of the huntsman Mikita and the young lady’s power.