How Santa Survived the Soviet Era Ded Moroz emerged around the late 19th century. One of the first major cultural introductions of the character was in the 1873 play The Snow Maiden, by Alexander Ostrovsky, one of the most important playwrights in Russian history. Ostrovsky was often a political writer, and The Snow Maiden is an odd entry in his oeuvre. It\u2019s a fairytale, based in part on obscure and largely forgotten pre-Christian pagan mythology, and designed to promote a different kind of Russian patriotism than the Imperial government\u2019s brand. The play was published\u2014not necessarily a given for Ostrovsky, who had many of his plays censored or banned\u2014and eventually rewritten as an opera, which was performed many times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Christmas sounds like Kurushimimasu (suffering in Japanese) (Snegurochka and Ded Moroz crossing a Moscow street in 1968) Soviet Santa How Santa Survived the Soviet Era Of all the variations on the beloved character, Russia\u2019s Ded Moroz might have the strangest history. (Actor Alexander Khvylya plays Ded Moroz at a New Year performance the Kremlin in 1969.) Ded Moroz emerged around the late … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1aaDedMoroz-e1576809554250.jpg\")
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\n(Snegurochka and Ded Moroz crossing a Moscow street in 1968)
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\nOf all the variations on the beloved character, Russia\u2019s Ded Moroz might have the strangest history. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1aactorAlexander-e1576809674339.jpg\")
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\n(Actor Alexander Khvylya plays Ded Moroz at a New Year performance the Kremlin in 1969.)<\/p>\n
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