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Tsarina's Slippers [Cherevichki]

Tsarina's Slippers/ The Slippers [Cherevichki in Russian] is a comic-fantastic opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

"Based on a Christmas tale by Gogol that mixes realistic village comedy with fairytale fantasy, the plot describes how Vakula the blacksmith flies on the Devil's back to St Petersburg to request a pair of little leather slippers worn by the Tsarina herself in order to win the hand of his beloved Oxana."

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