Here's my side of the story: Ever have an Earth Shift?

[valley ranch]

I picture you as the Snow Maiden dancing to please Father Frost. Bravo Larisa!

Remember the tale by Verra Kalamatiano

She is not The Snow Maiden but a snow maiden.

 

[valley ranch]

So many stories of the Snow Maiden, I was in love with her as a little boy and looked for her in the forest during winter.

 

[Larisa]

So do I.
I also like painting "Snow Maiden" by Vasnetsov. This story tale Ostrovsky. Snow Maiden, daughter of Spring and Frost, wanted to live among the people. She liked the shepherd Lel. One family took her. Snow Maiden was a beauty. Lel and Mizgir loved it. But her cold heart could not answer them. The feast - day sun. All the people gathered on the mountain to meet him. The king promised to marry young couples in honor of the sun. Mizgir and Lel would be husbands for her. Snow Maiden wanted to learn to love. Then she went to her mother. Mom gave her a magic wreath and said: You're going to love that man, whom you see first. The first was Mizgir. Maiden saw and fell in love. He was happy and led her up the mountain to get married. Snow Maiden was afraid of the hot sun, but Mizgir persuaded her. When it seemed the sun - Snow Maiden melts, blessing love, that carries her death. Mizgir desperately rushes from the mountain into the lake. The sun blesses the people for a good harvest.
Snow Maiden on the painting spends his last night in the her world. She thinks the last time, to stay in the forest, in the cold, or go to the people and find love.

 

[valley ranch]

Tragic, no happy ever after.