We have such a wonderful Russian Santa Claus. So why are we getting American Santa Claus everywhere and everywhere? We have our own Russian traditions, why should we adopt someone else's. I think you won't find our Santa Claus in America during the day with fire.
Ded Moroz is a character of Russian legends, in Slavic legends he is the personification of Russian winter frosts, a blacksmith who freezes the water with ice, generously showered winter nature with sparkling snowy silver, giving the joy of winter festivities.
Initially, he was presented as a powerful old man of enormous stature with a long gray beard. The harsh winters, in the understanding of our ancient Slavic ancestors, were the work of an old man with a staff, who was perceived as a powerful wizard with a rather harsh character.
In the wardrobe of Santa Claus there are long-lined fur coats of three colors: white, blue and red, on a gray-haired head there is a boyar hat decorated with multi-colored crystals, in his hands he holds a staff and a bag with gifts. According to the old tradition, he travels on three magnificent white horses, symbolizing the three winter months. His granddaughter, the Snow Maiden, helps Santa Claus to do good deeds.
SANTA CLAUS is a modern image of a good-natured fat man, which appeared in the United States relatively recently, on Christmas Day 1822. It was then that Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem "The Coming of Saint Nicholas", in which the Saint appeared as a cheerful and cheerful elf with a round tight abdomen, testifying to his addiction to delicious food, and with a smoking pipe. As a result of the reincarnation, Saint Nicholas got off the donkey, acquired eight deer, and a bag with gifts appeared in his hands.
Can you imagine Santa holding ice on rivers? Paving frosty snowy paths for travelers? Is it snowing drifts? Who, under the most difficult circumstances, comes to help his losing strength and freezes the invincible armies of invaders into the ice with unprecedented colds, as he did with Napoleon's army and Hitler's army near Moscow and Stalingrad? Of course not.
Santa Claus is just a Western businessman and merchant: he has starred in a Coca-Cola commercial since 1931.