Fyodor Bondarchuk as Father Frost with his eyes closed in Santa Claus. Battle Of The Magi 3 ... The 2022 comedy-thriller depicts St. Nick as a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and cantankerous ...

Elsewhere, its has been replaced by Santa Claus, a figure whose origin story is a mixture of the legend of Saint Nicholas, the fairy tale of Father Frost — and an incredibly successful ...

Still, before the 1830s, the substitution of Santa Claus for St. Nick was not in frequent use. In fact, prior to vastly increasing in general popularity toward the latter half of the 1800s ...