The story behind the reindeer ... There was once a great Czar in Russia named Rudolph the Red. He stood looking out the windows of is palace one day while hiswife, the Czarina Katerina, sat nearby knitting. He turned to her and said, "Look my dear, it has begun to rain!" Without even looking up from her knitting she replied, "It's too cold to rain. It must be sleeting." The Czar shook his head and said, "I am the Czar of all the Russians, and Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear !"