IN PICTURES CHRISTMAS THROUGH TIME
GRANDFATHER FROST, 1962
Children gather before a sculpture of Ded Moroz (‘Grandfather Frost’) in the Moscow Kremlin’s Taynitsky Garden. In Russia, Ded Moroz delivers gifts to children overnight on New Year’s Eve, rather than Christmas Eve.
YULE FUEL, 1941
A group of Santa Clauses eat a well-earned lunch in Chicago. Part of the Volunteers of America’s fundraising effort for low-income people, the Sidewalk Santa scheme was launched in 1900, with
