The True Story of Santa Claus

A luxurious interactive edition with velvet snow, foil, and varnish on the cover will adorn the library of the most discerning reader. It is the perfect winter book. Almost every page holds a surprise - a rotating circular clock, a three-dimensional box with toy soldiers, a calendar booklet, opening carved doors - so much that cannot be listed! The fairy tale by Andrey Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak "The True Story of Father Frost" was awarded an honorary certificate in the "Prose" nomination at the All-Russian competition of children's and youth literature "Scarlet Sails" and a diploma as a laureate of the small prize "Cherished Dream." The action of the tale spans a whole century. By chance, engineer-traveler Sergey Ivanovich Morozov becomes Father Frost once a year. Together with him, we live through the 20th century and step into the 21st century, witnessing the history of our country, vibrant and grim, triumphant and tragic, familiar and unfamiliar, unfolding before our eyes. It all begins in 1912, and what people simply overlooked around them at the beginning of the 20th century, and what is so interesting to us, their descendants, comes to life in the pages of this book: how tea was drunk, what was learned in high schools, how they dressed, what they traveled on, and what candies they ate. The reader will peer into the past, seeing for themselves a real horse-drawn tram, a tube radio, and a wooden pavement, a steam locomotive, and a zeppelin, children's books and toys that were played with a hundred, fifty, and twenty years ago, and the New Year celebration. The comments in the margins tell about important historical events and everyday life in early 20th-century Russia, the calendar and orthography reforms, what Father Frost did wrong before the Soviet authorities, and much more. Numerous flaps and movable elements, various three-dimensional constructions, and postcards as gifts help convey the charm of a bygone era, allowing one to see it with their own eyes. An engaging plot, subtle humor, and lively prose combined with high-quality printing, modern design, and original additional materials make "The True Story of Father Frost" a unique publication on the Russian book market and a magnificent New Year gift! Additional materials: flaps, panoramic pages, movable elements, original three-dimensional constructions, a glued booklet, gift postcards.

A collectible edition has been released in a limited print run.

For family reading.

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