Silver Blizzard. Christmas Stories and Yuletide Tales

A collection of Christmas (St. Nicholas) tales and stories that celebrate the value of Christian virtue and morality will fill your soul with hope and support a cozy Christmas atmosphere!

Today will be Christmas,

the whole city is waiting for a secret,
slumbering in crystalline frost
and waiting: magic will happen.

M. Yu. Lermontov

Christmas in Russia was the most beloved and long-awaited holiday. Folk folklore traditions—caroling, people in disguise, fortune-telling, Christmas-tide stories—created a special mood of the Church Christian celebration. All of this is reflected in the Christmas-tide stories by Russian writers, answering the expectation of Christmas magic and the childlike readiness to accept even the most fairy-tale plots on faith. As a rule, all events in a Christmas-tide story unfold within a single Christmas night, during which the characters experience events that allow them to change spiritually. The main thing in a Christmas-tide story is the value of Christian virtue and morality. Christmas tales call on us to always be ready to share a part of our heartfelt warmth with others—and then a real Christmas miracle will surely happen. That is exactly what the Christmas-tide stories and tales by N. Gogol, F. Dostoevsky, L. Andreev, N. Leskov, A. Kuprin, I. Shmelev, and others are about.

Contents:

Nikolai Gogol — “The Night Before Christmas”

Fyodor Dostoevsky — “The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree”

Leonid Andreev — “Little Angel”

Nikolai Wagner — “Telepen”

Nikolai Leskov — “Christ at a Peasant’s,” “The Unchangeable Ruble,” “The Beast,” “A Ghost in an Engineer’s Castle”

Alexander Kuprin — “The Wonderful Doctor,” “The Taper,” “The Poor Prince”

Anton Chekhov — “A Dream,” “The Boys,” “The Shoemaker and the Unclean Force”

Alexander Fedorov-Davydov — “The Hawroshina Fir”

Evgeny Pospelianin — “Nikolka”

Vasily Nikiforov-Volgin — “The Silver Blizzard”

Ivan Shmelev — “Christmas in Moscow”