The Glorious Resurrection (Russian: Светлое Воскресеньеnote ) by Alexey Khomyakov is a Cultural Translation remake of A Christmas Carol, moving the setting to Russia and changing the holiday in question to Easter.
It was published in 1844, only a year after the original.
The novella provides examples of:
- Adaptation Name Change: The last names are slightly modified to sound more naturally in Russian (e.g. Scrooge becomes Scroog and Marley becomes Marlev), but the first names that don't have Russian analogues (e.g. Ebenezer) or are fairly uncommon in Russian (e.g. Tim) are changed, thus:
- Scrooge is now called Pyotr.
- Tiny Tim is called Styopa.
- Fan is called Katya.
- Belle is called Masha.
- Adaptation Species Change: As part of the Cultural Translation, the branch of holly carried by the Ghost of the Past is now a palm branch.
- Adaptational Abomination: In the original, it was the Ghost of Christmas Past that kept changing his appearance and the Ghost of Christmas Present who was fairly human-looking (apart from being a "Giant"). Here, it's the Ghost of the Present who keeps changing his looks all the time, while the Ghost of the Past has a stable angel-like appearance.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: A small case of it in the last scene in the past. Whereas in A Christmas Carol Belle and her husband discuss Scrooge more or less casually and it's the husband who remarks that Scrooge is "quite alone in the world", here, when Masha hears that Scroog's business partner has died, she says "Poor man, now he's alone, all alone in the world", and the narration remarks that a shadow passes over her face.
- Adaptational Location Change: From London to an unspecified city in Russia.
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- Scroog is slightly less critical of Easter than his Dickensian counterpart of Christmas, as the infamous "Bah! Humbug!" is changed to "Ah! That's silly!".
- Scroog's schoolmaster is kindly rather than intimidating.
- Death by Adaptation: Downplayed. In A Christmas Carol, it was made clear that Tiny Tim survives, while here the narrator says he doesn't know for sure if Styopa died or not.
- Good Wears White: The Ghost of the Past is clad in a bright white tunic, and the Ghost of the Present in a white robe. However, the opposite isn't true, since the Ghost of the Yet to Come is, like in the original, in black.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's distant, neglectful guardian is his father. Here, it's his uncle.
- Yet Another Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol set on Easter in Russia.
