Dykanka is the location of the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.
The preface is the opening to the first volume of Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1831.
The artistic objects from the nationalised estates of the Kochubeys (in Dykanka), the Galagans (in Sokyrnytsi), the Kapnists (in Obukhivka), the Repnins (in Yahotyn) now were public ownership.
As Vasyl arrived with his friend near their village, Dykanka, they met a little boy who asked them to let him go to see the cossack, Vasyl who had supposedly returned from having seen the empress.
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