My name is Varvara

If you cut a cherry branch and put it in water on St. Barbara's Day, a miracle will happen on Christmas Day: the Barbarazweig will bloom. And this is real Christmas magic in the life of the heroine of the story "My Name is Barbara" by Dzvinka Matiyas. After all, the story of her birth, which her father tells to his beloved daughter, is connected with the cherry branch.

Before Christmas, Varvara awaits her Barbarazweig and notes in her diary everything she learns about the story of her birth and her rather rare name: about the Viennese Christmas vacation of her mother and father, the mysterious biography of St. Barbara and the amazing fate of the girl's namesake - the Kyiv philanthropist Varvara Khanenko. And along with the blooming cherry branch, other miracles and surprises come into Varvara's life...