# Oxana — Short Fiction character guide

> Oxana in Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Beautiful Oxana

**First appearance:** 0010-the-night-of-christmas-eve

## Snapshot

A village beauty so proud she sets an impossible wedding price, demanding the Tsaritsa's own slippers before she'll marry any suitor.

## Who they are

Oxana is the most courted girl in her Cossack village, and she knows it, teasing her admirers with glances she never means to honor. Her demand for the Tsaritsa's slippers is less a wish than a test of devotion, and it turns the blacksmith Vakoola's longing into a dare with cosmic stakes. Her vanity drives the story's central wager, making her both the prize and the provocation.

## In the story

### [The Night of Christmas Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/the-night-of-christmas-eve)

The beautiful daughter of Choop, who rejects Vakoola's advances but later regrets her harshness.

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