Father Frost is a little like Father Christmas.  He customarily appears with his granddaughter, a snow maiden called Snegurochka, and  together they travel in a  Russian troika, drawn by three horses,  usually carrying  an evergreen tree and presents.  Father Frost is thought to have been a woodsman from northern Russia.  During the late 1990s the village of  Viliky Ustyug, in the Vologodskaya Region about 1,000 km north east of Moscow, was declared Father Frosts official home and today you can visit the region to see the log house home of Father Frost.