Before Anna, when I am fourteen, there is a girl named Katerina. She often is buying wood for her father, and asks me to walk her home. Nowadays when her family needs wood I deal mostly with her husband. He does not want me to walk him home.
Grandfather Vanya dies at the venerable (for an Orc) age of 53.
The Domovoi of Vasilly's Hut was Touched by Winter, leaving the Dead House unguarded from the predations of the Snow Queen.
The Snow Queen freezes the Woodcutter Vasilly's wife and grandmother, and steals the baby Oleg to consume the essence of back in the Sabrelands. (Fortunately the Snow Maiden took a liking to Oleg before he could be eaten, saving his life.)
Vasilly returns home from the The Eighth Hoary War to discover his house empty of all residents (including his Domovoi).