Christmas Stories

This book contains works by Leikin about Christmas and New Year — published for the first time since their original publications.

Its heroes — young craftsmen and enterprising merchants, important generals and modest officials, schoolgirls and young ladies — prepare for the most beloved holidays in Russia. Choosing gifts, memorizing congratulatory poems, tidying up the house and decorating the tree, visiting guests — it seems that even 120 years ago the list of pre-holiday activities was the same as it is today.