The past of Santa Claus They began to decorate the Christmas tree for Christmas in Russia in the middle of the 19th century, and by the 1880s this tradition was widely spread in urban families. There were characters who gave the children gifts - St. Nicholas or baby Jesus (another tradition that came from German folklore). And what about Santa Claus? It is often believed that Santa Claus arose only in the 1930s, when the Soviet government allowed to arrange children's Christmas trees.

On January 1, 1919, writer Daniil Granin was born. Personal business Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (real name German, 1919-2017) was born in the village of Volyn Kursk province, in the Forester family. When he was seven years old, he moved to Leningrad with his mother. “Mother-horseman, fashionista, young, beautiful, did not sit in the village,” Granin wrote in an autobiography. - I understand this now, retroactively, understanding their nightly whispering.

Maxim Russo Frame from the film A. Row "Morozko" The past of Santa Claus They began to decorate the Christmas tree for Christmas in Russia in the middle of the 19th century, and by the 1880s this tradition was widely spread in urban families. There were characters who gave the children gifts - St. Nicholas or baby Jesus (another tradition that came from German folklore). And what about Santa Claus?

Mikhail Andreev , Nikolai Greener The publishing house "New Literary Review" completed 2020 by the release of the first volume from the new collection of the works of the outstanding philologist Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov. The first posthumous collected works of M. L. Gasparov (in six volumes) sets its task to convey the versatility of his scientific interests as fully as possible and present the main directions of his research.