The True Story of Father Frost

...Engineer-track worker Sergey Ivanovich Morozov, while walking with his wife Masha in the Christmas before the New Year of 1912 down the Kososy Lane in St. Petersburg, finds himself under a magical snow that, as it turns out, only falls here once every fifty years. Unbeknownst to themselves, the couple becomes for the next half-century the embodiment of children's New Year dreams - Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. They are astonished by the new possibilities and for a long time consider all the wonders they create as mere coincidences. But the eyes of the heroes of the novel are opened by the Ptorki and Ohli - representatives of the magical little folk, who become their constant helpers in the days and nights leading up to New Year...