Saint Nicholas is a festive character, a good magician, who is identified with the image of Nicholas the Wonderworker. On the eve of St. Nicholas's holiday, children write him letters with their wishes, which they put in the mailbox or leave outside the window. St. Nicholas leaves good children under a pillow or in a scarf a gift, and to the disobedient - a sharp one. This is a big, kind old man with a with a thick white beard and a long blue coat.