russian tale-the wax angel?

Question

an old russian tale about a poor boy who is invited a Xmas party and stoles an angel from the xmas tree
who wrote it???

Answer 1

Could you perhaps mean 'The Sealed Angel'?
I believe this is sometimes translated as 'The Wax Angel'

Its written by Nikolai Leskov.

I've put some links in 'sources' for you to check out. Hopefully you can work out whether its the story you are after.