Snow maiden daughter or granddaughter?

Snow maiden was first a daughter of Santa Claus.

Initially, Santa Claus was the only Christmas fairy-tale character. But this is only until 1873, until Alexander Ostrovsky wrote the play "snow maiden". The young beauty first became the daughter of Santa Claus, and then his granddaughter. How and for what reason it happened, now it is difficult to say.
It is not clear and more — than maiden did not please the Soviets?
After all, in the years of repression, from 1927 to 1937, this fairy-tale character was banned. "Pardoned" the snow maiden in the first half of the 1950's. This happened because the lion will Cassilo and Sergey Mikhalkov, who were the authors of the scripts for carrying out the main tree of the country – the Kremlin.