Snegurka, the Snow Maiden.

Once, there lived a kindly man and woman named Ivan and Marya. Though they had prayed and prayed, they had no child to comfort them in their old age. One winter, they make a child out of snow. They imagine how she would have had Marya’s flaxen hair and Ivan’s aversion to plums. They pretend they are a family and, for a moment, they both forget the cold. When Ivan and Marya prepare to return home, the snow child trembles and shakes off the snow, revealing a little girl with frost blue eyes and silver hair. She falls into their arms and though she is freezing to the touch, Ivan and Marya have never been so warm in their life. Snegurka grows by the hour and soon becomes a beautiful young woman.