Travel engineer Sergei Ivanovich Morozov, walking on Christmas Eve before the New Year 1912 with his wife Masha along Diagon Alley in St. Petersburg, falls under magical snow, which, it turns out, falls here once every fifty years. Without even knowing it, the couple become for the next half century the fulfillers of children's New Year's dreams - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. They are shocked by the new possibilities and for a long time consider all the miracles they create to be random coincidences. But the eyes of the heroes of the novel are opened by the birds and the ohlies - representatives of the fairy folk who become their constant assistants in the days and nights before New Year... “The True Story of Father Frost” combines a fairy tale and a story about the real history of Russia in the twentieth century. It is addressed to children 6-12 years old, those who have not yet completely given up faith in the New Year's miracle, but are already ready to learn the truth about the life and history of their country.