Engineer Sergei Ivanovich Morozov, while walking on Christmas before New Year’s Day 1912 with his wife Masha along Kosoi Lane in St. Petersburg, comes under a magical snow—turns out it falls here only once every fifty years. Without even realizing it yet, the spouses become performers of New Year’s children’s wishes for the next half-century: Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. They’re stunned by their new abilities and for a long time think that all the miracles they create are mere coincidences. But the heroes’ eyes are opened by ptsyorki and okhly—representatives of a magical people—who become their permanent helpers in the days and nights before New Year…