Vij

Vij (or Vii, Vii, Viy, Vyi according to the translations) (in Russian Вий) is a news of Nicolas Gogol, published for the first time in March 1835 in volume Mirgorod .

In the Slavic Mythology, the Ukrainians indicate Vij the chief of the gnomes whose eyelids hang to the ground.

Vij was translated into French for the first time by Louis Viardot under the title the King of the gnomes and was published in the collection Nouvelles Russian by Nicolas Gogol

History

Adaptations to the cinema

Vij was adapted to the cinema

  • 1960 by Mario Dribbled under the title of the Mask of the demon with Barbara Steele
  • 1967 by Gregory Kropatchev with Leonid Kouravlev and Natalya Varleï

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