The true story of Father Frost
99.99 €
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The true story of Father Frost
99.99 €
A luxurious interactive edition with "jewels", silver snowflakes and elegant velvet vignettes on the cover will decorate the library of the most demanding reader. On almost every page there is a surprise - a rotating circle-chimes, a three-dimensional box with soldiers, a little book-calendar, swinging carved doors - you can't name it all!The fairy tale story "The True Story of Santa Claus" by Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak was awarded a certificate of honor in the nomination "Prose" at the All-Russian contest of works for children and youth "Scarlet Sails" in 2007 and a diploma of the winner of the small prize "Testamentary Dream" in 2008.The story covers the whole century. By chance, Sergey Ivanovich Morozov, a travel engineer, turns into Santa Claus once a year. Together with him we live XX century and step into the century XXI, and before our eyes is the history of our country, bright and dark, triumphant and tragic, familiar and unfamiliar.Everything begins in 1912, and what people in the early twentieth century simply did not notice around them and what is so interesting to us, their descendants, comes to life on the margins of this book: how they drank tea, what they studied in gymnasiums, how they dressed, what they rode, what candy ate. The reader will look into the past, will see with his own eyes the very real pokuza, lamp receiver and wooden sidewalk, steam engine and zeppelin, toys that children played a hundred, and fifty, and twenty years ago.One hundred years, until 2012, continues this amazing story - the true story of Santa Claus. But even in 2012 it does not end, and in general will not end, as long as the most ordinary man Sergei Ivanovich Morozov lives in the world and as long as children believe in miracles.Comments in the margins tell about important historical events and everyday life in Russia in the early twentieth century, about the reforms of the calendar and spelling, about what all the same Santa Claus was guilty before the Soviet government and much, much more. Numerous flaps and moving elements, a variety of volumetric designs and cards as a gift help to convey the charm of a bygone era, to see it with your own eyes.Fascinating plot, subtle humor and lively syllable, combined with high quality printing, modern design and original additional materials make "The True Story of Santa Claus" edition, unparalleled in the Russian book market, and a great gift! Additional materials: flaps, panoramic pages, movable elements, original volumetric designs
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