Language: Japanese. 21 p.
Translator into Japanese: Hirai Hajime.
Year: 2006.
Publisher: 岩波文庫。
“Terrible Revenge” is a story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, part of the collection “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. Approximately dates from the summer - early autumn of 1831. In the first edition of "Evenings" "Terrible Revenge" the scene is subtitled, removed in subsequent reprints: "Ancient true story."
The old captain marries his son. The father brings out the icons to bless the young people with them, but suddenly one of the guests - the Cossacks - turns into a terrible monster.