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Oksana
Oksana Oksana is deeply and specifically Ukrainian — a name that places a character firmly in the sunflower-and-steppe landscape of Ukraine. In literary tradition it suggests a woman of fierce beauty and proud independence, qualities that in Gogol's tale shade into charming capriciousness but in modern Ukrainian fiction often manifest as genuine strength.
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Oksana
Christmas Eve — Nikolai Gogol
The proud village beauty whose playful demand that the blacksmith Vakula bring her the tsarina's slippers sets the plot of this beloved Ukrainian Christmas tale in motion.
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