Photo: Ke-Xin Li
Seven-year-old Zakhar Manktelow has just met Ded Moroz and wrote him a wishlist.
"I wrote snowman, snow globe, Nintendo Switch, and Super Mario Kart game for the Nintendo Switch."
Ded Moroz, which means Grandpa Frost, is the Santa known in Russian cultures. Zakhar, born to a Russian mother and a Kiwi father, was yet to see snow.
Photo: Ke-Xin Li
But that did not stop him from reciting a 14-line poem in Russian. He explained what it meant in English.
"When you are waiting for Christmas, then it comes, then you get all your presents, an
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