Information on that Sacred Nikolay was whom actually.
Orthodox calendar
Orthodox calendar
It appears modern Father Frost’s prototype Sacred Nikolay who was born in the III century in Lycia (Asia Minor) is. According to a legend, somehow time it threw in a dowry to three poor girls purses with gold: one left at a window, another – in hung out to dry a stocking, and the third got through a flue to a boot standing at a fireplace. Since then in the night of December 19 children of the whole world hang out socks in order that in the morning to find in them desirable gifts.