This is a fairy tale about children waiting for their gifts on Christmas. About a beautiful princess made ugly because of the mischief of a mouse queen. About a simple young man who returned the princess her beauty, but himself turned into a wooden puppet.
And about the fact that the love of a little girl can work wonders—remove evil spells from the bewitched young man and help turn the wooden Nutcracker into a wonderful prince.
There is a version that when the fairy tale’s author was 31, he fell in love with a 15-year-old girl and sealed his suffering in this story. At the end of the 19th century, Tchaikovsky writes the ballet “The Nutcracker” to the libretto by Marius Petipa.