Morozko: Russian Folk Fairy Tales

Morozko is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki (1855-1863). A woman has a daughter, whom she loves, and a step-daughter, whom she hates. One day, the woman orders her husband to take her stepdaughter out into the winter wilderness and to leave her there to die, and he obeys, leaving her at the foot of a tree in the forest. Father Frost finds her there, and because the girl is polite and kind to him, he gives her a chest full of beautiful jewels a...