The Russian Santa Claus in Siberia (The eastern part of Russia situated in Asia). He’s known as Ded Moroz.
-Merry Xmas from Universal Beauty
Not quite. This is Yakutian Chys Khan, Ded Moroz’s northern “brother”. Russian Federation is a melting pot of different cultures, it’s not just slavs, don’t forget that.
This is Ded Moroz (a.k.a. Father Frost)
And here they are together
wow, don’t forget Snegurochka, his daughter, the snow maiden, who always accompanies him. She has a beautifuk kokoshnik crown that is essentially a big snowflake
or, more contemporarily, a cute toque
don’t leave her out :(
I just love how Eastern Russian folklore has an entire class of elaborately interconnected Santa-Claus-like figures. Each culture doesn’t just have its own individual Father Christmas stories: they also have stories about the relationships between their own Father Christmases and those of neighbouring cultures, including both conflicts and team-ups. Their individual attributes are all over the map, too; you’ve got everything from kindly old toymakers, to stern winter warlocks, to otherworldly priest-kings commanding bound demons - heck, there’s even one who’s some sort of shapeshifting mammoth shaman, as I recall. It’s a bit like a really narrowly themed superhero mythos, where everybody is some sort of Santa.
