Рождественские сказки

Kak vstrechali Novyĭ god deti v nachale proshlogo stoletii͡a? Konechno, bez Interneta i televizorov. "Skuchno!" - podumaete vy, no s vami posporit samai͡a ostroumnai͡a pisatelʹnit͡sa Serebri͡anogo veka - Nadezhda Tėffi. Na ulit͡se tikho padaet sneg, v zale stoit nari͡azhennai͡a ëlka, a pod neĭ - podarki! Sovsem skoro otkroi͡utsi͡a dveri i k ëlke pobegut deti. V ėtoĭ knige sobrano mnogo interesnykh istoriĭ N. Tėffi pro to, kak deti gotovilisʹ k Novomu godu i Rozhdestvu, kak provozhali zimu, vstrechali vesnu, a s neĭ i Verbnoe voskresenʹe!

How did children celebrate the New Year at the beginning of the last century? Of course, without the Internet and TVs. "Boring!" you may think, but the wittiest writer of the Silver Age, Nadezhda Taffy, will argue with you. Snow is falling quietly on the street, there is a decorated Christmas tree in the hall, and gifts under it! Very soon the doors will open and children will run to the tree. This book contains many interesting stories by N. Taffy about how children prepared for the New Year and Christmas, how they saw off winter, welcomed spring, and with it Palm Sunday!