Leaves of Grass

Christmas fairy tales occupied a central position in the intellectual and artistic development of the whole World. For many years Christmas literature occupied minds of many nations: German, Scandinavian, Italian and others. Heroes of Christmas fairy tales find adventures that will not leave anyone indifferent.

There was a little seven-year-old boy named Wolff, whose parents were dead, who lived with a cross and stingy old aunt in spite of everything, he loved the old woman, although he was terribly afraid of her and could never look at her ugly old face without shivering. The little boy knew by experience that his old miser of an aunt would send him to bed supperless, but, with childlike faith and certain of having been, all the year, as good and industrious as possible, he hoped that the Christ-Child would not forget him, and so he, too, planned to place his wooden shoes in good time in the fireplace. He preferred to go to the church… Read the story till the end!