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Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, and with many of the stories appearing in English for the first time, this is a collection that will satisfy every reader. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy, Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales, Chekhov's unmatchable skills are on full display in a story about a female factory owner and the wretched workers, Klavdia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia, and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves. There is no shortage of vodka or wit on display here, in a collection that proves, with its wonderful variety and remarkable human touch, that Nobody Does Christmas Like the Russians.New Year's tree / Mikhail Zoshchenko --Boys / Anton Chekhov --Christmas tree and a wedding / Fyodor Dostoevsky --At Christmastide / Anton Chekhov --Dream of the young tsar / Lev Tolstoy --Makar's dream / Vladimir Korolenko --Woman's kingdom / Anton Chekhov --Distant Christmas eve / Klaudia Lukashevich --Little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Fyodor Dostoevsky --Christmas phantoms / Maxim Gorky --Lifeless animal / Teffi --My last Christmas / Mikhail Zoshchenko.