Christmas stories by Russian writers. 12+.

You wait for these days all year, but they always come quickly and unnoticed... Pre-Christmas anticipation of a miracle, the holiness of Christmas days. How to prepare your soul for the holiday? How to maintain a bright, joyful mood in... the hustle and bustle? Perhaps it was for this purpose that the genre of the Christmas story arose. In such stories, there is traditionally a miracle, and the heroes joyfully do the difficult and wonderful work of love, overcoming obstacles, and often the machinations of “evil spirits.” This book contains Christmas stories of classic writers, famous and not so famous: Gogol, Leskov, Shmelev, Kuprin, Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Durylin, and stories of modern authors: Archpriests Nikolai Agafonov and Alexander Shantaev, Olesya Nikolaeva, Vitaly Kaplan, Maxim Yakovlev and etc.