Photographed in the snow with baskets of fruit, the children depicted in this series of images look like little Russian dolls, bundled up in tiny fur coats against picturesque backdrops. These toddlers with rosy cheeks appear like characters in a fairy tale. “Photographing children is a special pleasure,” child and family photographer Elena Algazina, 44, from St. Petersburg, Russia, told The Epoch Times. “And most importantly, they never pose, they are real.” The “rustic” series which showcases little kids in fur coats in the picturesque location of the Russian village of Shuvalovka was born when Elena found a brown coat from her childhood that was kept in her closet. “My mother kept it as a keepsake,” Elena said. “It laid in the closet for more than 30 years … many Soviet children had such fur coats, felt boots, hats, and scarves in their childhood.” So when her son turned 2, …