Liza

Liza is one of the characters in the Frost and the Maiden fairytale told by Dunya to Marina and her four eldest children in the Bear and the Nightingale on the night the ram is born and Marina reveals her pregnancy with Vasya to her husband, Pyotr.

Description
Liza is the daughter of Darya Nikolaevna, who marries Boris Borisovich and favors Liza over Boris's daughter Marfa. Liza is described as ugly and lazy with a bad personality, yet she still receives preferential treatment over Marfa who is described as beautiful, kind, and hardworking.

One night, after years of trying to get rid of her and/or make her ugly through hard work, Darya announces that Marfa will be sent deep into the forest to marry Morozko, the master of the white snows, the black firs, and the silver frost. When Marfa returns with a chest of treasure and wearing Morozko's cloak, Liza and her mother are furiously jealous. Darya immediately sends Boris to deliver Liza to the same tree, sure that she will receive even more wonderful and plentiful gifts.

Liza waits at the fir tree dressed in her finest gown and heavy fur robes. She waits so long at the tree that she starts to get gold in spite of her furs. Morozko walks up to Liza, laughing in her face and casting a cold wind on her. He asks if she is warm, to which she responds "Of course not, you fool! Can you not see that I am near perished with cold?" This angers Morozko, who causes a terrible, cold wind to blow. He asks her a second time if she is warm and she screams at him that she is not. He hardens his heart and leans in to ask her a third time, but before she can answer she dies from the icy coldness of his breath.

Darya waits impatiently for several hours before sending Boris to fetch Liza. She is convinced that Liza will have at least two chests of treasure, but when Boris returns to the tree, she is lying dead on the ground. With a heavy heart, he gathers her into the sledge and returns home. Darya rushes from the house to great her, but when she sees Liza's dead body, she is overcome with grief and dies.