Representing a collection of ancient legends that went among the miners.

P. P. Bazhov

The writer was born in the Urals - in the city of Sysert. His father was a mining foreman. The future writer, journalist, publicist and folklorist graduated from the factory school in Sysert. From 10 to 14 years old, the boy studied at a religious school in Yekaterinburg. Then he graduated from the seminary in Perm. After receiving his education, he taught Russian. During his summer vacation he traveled around the Urals and collected folklore.

P. P. Bazhov began to write " Ural tales» in the 1930s. At first they were published in a magazine. Then came a collection of Ural tales, which was called "Malachite Box". It was published in 1939. The author has updated the book many times.

In 1943, Pavel Petrovich received the Stalin Prize for his work.

"Ural Tales"

Bazhov P. "Ural Tales" collected, as already mentioned above, throughout the Urals. He heard many of them from miners as a child. After some time, Pavel Petrovich made an official statement that he composed the Ural Tales himself. The works are combined into groups that are interconnected by common characters. P. Bazhov thought out such a move in order to give his book more integrity. Many tales are interconnected by the place of action.

The most important wonderful character in the tales of P. Bazhov is the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. She guards treasures. The hostess is unusually beautiful and has magical powers. Only talented stone craftsmen were allowed to descend into her domain. She could help, or she could destroy.

List of stories included in the collection

The book "Ural Tales" by P. P. Bazhov includes the following works:

"Mountain Master"
Vasina Gora.
"Pig-iron grandmother".
"Snake trail".
"Gift of the Old Mountains".
"Diamond match".
"Amethyst business".
"Two Lizards".
"Golden Hair"
"Sun Stone"
"Copper share".
"Silk Hill".
"Blue snake".
"Mistress of the Copper Mountain."
"About the Great Poloz".
"Tayutkino mirror".
"Distant Viewer".
"Crystal Lacquer".
"The inscription on the stone."
"Markov stone".
"The Golden Flower of the Mountain".
"The Mysterious Tulunkin".
"At the old mine."
"Ore Pass".

And many others.

"Mistress of the Copper Mountain"

This is one of the most significant, well-known and beloved by readers of the works of the book "Ural Tales". Below is a summary of this work.

A young worker named Stepan once saw a beautiful girl in the forest, with a long braid and dressed in malachite. He understood that it was the Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself. The girl told him that she had business with him. You need to go to the factory clerk and tell him to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine. The hostess promised Stepan that she would marry him if he fulfilled her order. Then she turned into a lizard and ran away. The next morning Stepan went to the clerk, and handed over everything that was ordered. For this he was flogged, lowered uphill, and chained. At the same time, they ordered to get a lot of malachite. The Hostess helped Stepan for not being afraid to fulfill her order. He got a lot of malachite. The Mistress showed him her dowry. And then she began to ask if he agreed to take her as his wife. Stepan thought, and said that he already had a bride. The Mistress praised him for not coveting her wealth. She gave Stepan a jewelry box for his bride. And then she said that he would live richly, only he must forget her. Soon he got married, built a house, the kids went. But he was not happy. Stepan began to go hunting in the forest, and every time he looked at the Krasnogorsk mine. Stepan could not forget the Mistress. Once he went into the forest and did not return - they found him dead.

"Malachite Box"

Another very famous work Cycle "Ural tales". Summary « Malachite casket” is presented in this article. This tale is a continuation of the story about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Stepan died, but his widow Nastasya kept the malachite box. Decorations were kept in it, donated by the hostess. Only Nastasya did not wear them and wanted to sell them. There were many people who wanted to buy the box. Yes, but everyone offered a small price. There was another reason why she kept the box with her. The youngest daughter, Tatyana, was very fond of these jewelry. Tanyusha grew up and, thanks to a wanderer who asked to spend the night in their house, she learned to embroider with silk and beads. And she was such a craftswoman that she began to earn big money. Soon the master saw the girl and was so struck by her beauty that he offered her to become his wife. She agreed, but made a condition that she would marry him if he showed her the queen in a room made of malachite by her father. The master promised to grant her wish. Once in the malachite chamber of the queen, the girl leaned against the wall and melted. Since then, no one has heard anything about her, only they began to notice that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain began to double.

"Stone Flower"

This work is the last of the cycle about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, which was created by Pavel Bazhov. "Ural tales", as you know, include several stories about this amazing beauty. "Stone Flower" is a story about the orphan Danilka, who at the age of 12 became a student of a malachite craftsman. The boy was talented and the teacher liked him. When Danila grew up, he became an excellent master. He had a dream. He wanted to create a malachite bowl, similar to a flower. I even found a suitable stone. But he could not manage to cut a beautiful flower. Once he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself. He asked her to show him her stone flower. The Mistress dissuaded him from this, but he insisted. He saw the flower of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, and since then he has completely lost his peace. Then he broke his unfinished bowl and left. He was not seen again, but there were rumors that he served with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

"Silver Hoof"

P. P. Bazhov wrote “Ural Tales” for children, but they are also interesting for adults. One story that readers of all ages enjoy is Silver Hoof. The lonely old man Kokovanya took in an orphan. Grandfather worked every day, and the granddaughter in the hut put things in order, cooked. In the evenings, Kokovanya told the girl stories. And once he told her about a magical goat with a silver hoof, with which he knocks, and precious stones appear in that place. Once a girl was waiting for her grandfather from hunting and saw through the window that her cat was playing with the same goat from a fairy tale. She ran out to look at him. And the goat jumped onto the roof, began to beat with his hoof, and precious stones fell from under his feet. Grandfather and granddaughter collected them and lived comfortably for the rest of their lives.

"Sinyushkin well"

The book "Ural Tales" includes a story about a good fellow Ilya. He was left an orphan early on. He inherited only a sieve full of feathers from his grandmother Lukerya, who ordered her grandson not to pursue wealth. Once Ilya decided to go to the mine by a short road. And this path through the swamp lay. Ilya wanted to drink. He looks, and in the swamp there is a plot with clean water like a well. He decided to drink this water, lay down on the ground, and out of the water Sinyushka stretched out her hands to him. He managed to cope with her charms, he got up and spat on her hand. And she began to tease him that he would not be able to drink water from her well. Ilya promised Sinyushka that he would return, and left.

The young man kept his promise. Ilya returned, tied the ladle to the perch and scooped up water from the well with it. Sinyushka was amazed at his ingenuity and promised to show her wealth. Ilya came again to the well. And girls come up to him with trays full of jewelry. He remembered that his grandmother punished, and began to refuse everything. An eighteen-year-old beauty approached him with a sieve containing berries and feathers. Ilya realized that this is Sinyushka. He took the sieve from her hands. When he came home, the berries turned into gems. Ilya began to live richly, but he could not forget Sinyushka. Once he met a girl who looked very much like her, and he married her.

This tale is that the main wealth in life is not gold and gems. Sinyushkin's well is a test that only one who does not envy, is not greedy and remembers advice can pass.

"Rapid Fire"

The book written by Bazhov P. - "Ural Tales" - includes a story about a gold mine. Once the peasants were sitting by the fire, and with them - the boy Fedyunka. And suddenly they saw a red-haired girl who jumped out of the fire. She danced, and then she stopped near a pine tree and stamped her foot. According to legend, this is how she indicated the place where you need to look for gold. Only she deceived this time - there was nothing under the pine. Soon Fedyunka saw Poskakushka again. This time she right place pointed out. The boy found gold and lived comfortably for 5 years. The people heard about it, and everyone rushed to that mine for gold. They were coming from all directions. Yes, only gold was lost there because of this.

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Biography of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov

Bazhov Pavel Petrovich(January 27, 1879 - December 3, 1950) - the famous Russian Soviet writer, the famous Ural storyteller, prose writer, talented processor of folk tales, legends, Ural tales.

Biography

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was born on January 27, 1879 in the Urals near Yekaterinburg in the family of the hereditary mining foreman of the Sysertsky plant, Peter Vasilyevich and Augusta Stefanovna Bazhev (this is how this surname was written then).

The surname Bazhov comes from the local word "bazhit" - that is, to tell fortunes, to foretell. Bazhov also had a boyish street nickname - Koldunkov. And later, when Bazhov began to print his works, he signed one of his pseudonyms - Koldunkov.

Petr Vasilievich Bazhev was a foreman of the puddling and welding shop of the Sysert Metallurgical Plant near Yekaterinburg. The writer's mother, Augusta Stefanovna, was a skilled lacemaker. This was a great help for the family, especially during the forced unemployment of her husband.

The future writer lived and was formed among the Ural miners. Childhood impressions turned out to be the most important and vivid for Bazhov.

He liked to listen to other old experienced people, connoisseurs of the past. The Sysert old men Aleksey Efimovich Klyukva and Ivan Petrovich Korob were good storytellers. But the best of all whom Bazhov happened to know was the old field miner Vasily Alekseevich Khmelinin. He worked as a watchman at the wood warehouses at the plant, and at his gatehouse on Dumnaya Gora, the children gathered to listen interesting stories.

The childhood and adolescence of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov were spent in the town of Sysert and at the Polevsk plant, which was part of the Sysert mining district.

The family often moved from factory to factory, which allowed the future writer to get to know the life of the vast mountain district well and was reflected in his work.

Thanks to chance and his abilities, he got the opportunity to learn.

Bazhov studied at the men's zemstvo three-year school, in which there was a talented teacher of literature, who managed to captivate the children with literature.

So, a 9-year-old boy once read by heart the entire school collection of poems by N.A. Nekrasov, learned by him on his own initiative.

We settled on the Yekaterinburg Theological School: it has the lowest tuition fees, no need to buy a uniform, and there are also student apartments rented by the school - these circumstances turned out to be decisive.

Having excellently passed the entrance exams, Bazhov was enrolled in the Yekaterinburg Theological School. The assistance of a family friend was needed because the theological school was, after all, not only, so to speak, professional, but also class-based: it trained mainly ministers of the church, and mainly the children of the clergy studied in it.

After graduating from college at the age of 14, Pavel entered the Perm Theological Seminary, where he studied for 6 years. It was the time of his acquaintance with classical and modern literature.

In 1899, Bazhov graduated from the Perm Seminary - the third in terms of points. It's time to choose a path in life. The offer to enter the Kyiv Theological Academy and study there on a full pay basis was rejected. He dreamed of a university. However, the way there was closed. First of all, because the spiritual department did not want to lose their "cadres": the choice of higher educational institutions for graduates of the seminary was strictly limited to Derpt, Warsaw, Tomsk universities.

Bazhov decided to teach in primary school in an area inhabited by the Old Believers. Mine labor path he started in the remote Ural village of Shaydurikha, near Nevyansk, and then in Yekaterinburg and Kamyshlov. He taught Russian, traveled a lot around the Urals, was interested in folklore, local history, ethnography, and was engaged in journalism.

For fifteen years, every year during school holidays, Bazhov wandered on foot around his native land, everywhere he looked at the life around him, talked with workers, wrote down their well-aimed words, conversations, stories, collected folklore, studied the work of cutters, stone cutters, steelworkers, foundry workers. , gunsmiths and many other Ural craftsmen, talked with them about the secrets of their craft and kept extensive records. A rich supply of life impressions, samples of folk speech helped him a lot later in his work as a journalist, and then in writing. He replenished his “pantry” all his life.

Just at that time, a vacancy opened up at the Yekaterinburg Theological School. And Bazhov returned there - now as a teacher of the Russian language. Bazhov later tried to enter Tomsk University, but was not accepted.

In 1907, P. Bazhov moved to the diocesan (women's) school, where until 1914 he taught classes in Russian, and at times in Church Slavonic and algebra.

Here he met his future wife, and at that time just his student, Valentina Ivanitskaya, whom they married in 1911. Marriage was based on love and unity of aspirations. The young family lived a more meaningful life than most of Bazhov's colleagues who spent free time behind the cards. The couple read a lot, visited theaters. Seven children were born in their family.

When did the first World War, the Bazhovs already had two daughters. Due to financial difficulties, the couple moved to Kamyshlov, closer to the relatives of Valentina Alexandrovna. Pavel Petrovich transferred to the Kamyshlov Theological School.

Participated in civil war 1918-21 in the Urals, Siberia, Altai.

In 1923-29 he lived in Sverdlovsk and worked in the editorial office of the Peasant Newspaper. At this time, he wrote over forty tales on the themes of the Ural factory folklore.

Since 1930 - in the Sverdlovsk book publishing house.

In 1937, Bazhov was expelled from the party (a year later he was reinstated). But then, having lost his usual work in the publishing house, he devoted all his time to tales, and they flickered in the "Malachite Box" with genuine Ural gems.

In 1939, Bazhov's most famous work, the collection of fairy tales The Malachite Box, was published, for which the writer received the State Prize. In the future, Bazhov replenished this book with new tales.

Bazhov's writing path began relatively late: the first book of essays, "The Urals were," was published in 1924. Only in 1939 were his most significant works published - a collection of tales "The Malachite Box", which received the USSR State Prize in 1943, and an autobiographical story about childhood "Green filly". In the future, Bazhov replenishes the "Malachite Box" with new tales: "The Key-Stone" (1942), "Tales about the Germans" (1943), "Tales about gunsmiths" and others. His later works can be defined as "tales" not only because of their formal genre characteristics (the presence of a fictional narrator with an individual speech characteristic), but also because they go back to the Ural "secret tales" - the oral legends of miners and prospectors, characterized by a combination of real -household and fabulous elements.

Bazhov's works, dating back to the Ural "secret tales" - the oral legends of miners and prospectors, combine real-life and fantastic elements. The tales, which absorbed plot motifs, the colorful language of folk legends and folk wisdom, embodied the philosophical and ethical ideas of our time.

He worked on the collection of tales "The Malachite Box" from 1936 until the last days of his life. It was first published as a separate edition in 1939. Then, from year to year, the "Malachite Box" was replenished with new tales.

The tales of The Malachite Box are a kind of historical prose, in which the events and facts of the history of the Middle Urals of the 18th-19th centuries are recreated through the personality of the Ural workers. Fairy tales live as an aesthetic phenomenon thanks to a complete system of realistic, fantastic and semi-fantastic images and the richest moral and humanistic problems (themes of work, creative search, love, fidelity, freedom from the power of gold, etc.).

Bazhov sought to develop his own literary style, looking for original forms of embodiment of his writing talent. He succeeded in this in the mid-1930s, when he began to publish his first stories. In 1939, Bazhov combined them into the book The Malachite Box, which he later supplemented with new works. Malachite gave the name to the book because, according to Bazhov, "the joy of the earth is collected" in this stone.

Directly artistic and literary activity began late, at the age of 57 years. According to him, “there was simply no time for this kind of literary work.

The creation of tales became the main business of Bazhov's life. In addition, he edited books and almanacs, including those on Ural local history.

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov died on December 3, 1950 in Moscow, and was buried in his homeland in Yekaterinburg.

Tales

As a boy, he first heard an interesting story about the secrets of the Copper Mountain.

The Sysert old people were good storytellers - the best of them was Vasily Khmelin, at that time he worked as a watchman at the wood warehouses at the Polevsk plant, and the children gathered at his gatehouse to listen to interesting stories about the fabulous snake Poloz and his daughters Zmeevka, about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, about the grandmother Sinyushka. For a long time Pasha Bazhov remembered the stories of this old man.

Bazhov chose an interesting form of narration - "skaz" - this is primarily an oral word, an oral form of speech transferred to a book; in the tale, the voice of the narrator is always heard - grandfather Slyshko - involved in the events; he speaks in a colorful folk language, full of local words and expressions, proverbs and sayings.

Calling his works tales, Bazhov took into account not only the literary tradition of the genre, which implies the presence of a narrator, but also the existence of ancient oral traditions of the Ural miners, which in folklore were called "secret tales". From these folklore works, Bazhov adopted one of the main signs of his tales: a mixture of fairy-tale images.

The main theme of Bazhov's tales is a simple man and his work, talent and skill. Communication with nature, with the secret foundations of life is carried out through powerful representatives of the magical mountain world.

One of the brightest images of this kind is the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, whom the master Stepan meets from the tale "The Malachite Box". The mistress of the Copper Mountain helps Danila, the hero of the tale The Stone Flower, to discover his talent - and becomes disappointed in the master after he refuses to try to make the Stone Flower on his own.

The works of the mature Bazhov can be defined as "tales" not only because of their formal genre features and the presence of a fictional narrator with an individual speech characteristic, but also because they go back to the Ural "secret tales" - oral legends of miners and miners, characterized by a combination of real household and fabulous elements.

Bazhov's tales absorbed plot motifs, fantastic images, color, the language of folk legends and folk wisdom. However, Bazhov is not a folklorist-processor, but an independent artist who used his knowledge of the Ural miner's life and oral art to embody philosophical and ethical ideas.

Talking about the art of the Ural craftsmen, reflecting the colorfulness and originality of the old mining life, Bazhov at the same time puts in the tales general issues- about true morality, about the spiritual beauty and dignity of a working person.

The fantastic characters of fairy tales personify the elemental forces of nature, which entrusts its secrets only to the brave, hardworking and pure soul. Bazhov managed to give fantastic characters (the Mistress of the Mednaya Mountain, Veliky Poloz, Ognevushka the Poskakushka) extraordinary poetry and endowed them with subtle complex psychology.

Bazhov's tales are an example of the masterful use of the folk language. Carefully and at the same time creatively referring to the expressive possibilities of the folk language, Bazhov avoided the abuse of local sayings, the pseudo-folk "playing on phonetic illiteracy" (Bazhov's expression).

Tales of P.P. Bazhov are very colorful and picturesque. His color is sustained in the spirit of folk painting, folk Ural embroidery - solid, thick, ripe. The color richness of the tales is not accidental. It is generated by the beauty of Russian nature, the beauty of the Urals. The writer in his works generously used all the possibilities of the Russian word to convey the variety of colors, its richness and richness, so characteristic of the Ural nature.

The tales of Pavel Petrovich are an example of the masterful use of the folk language. Carefully and at the same time creatively referring to the expressive possibilities of the folk word, Bazhov avoided the abuse of local sayings and the pseudo-folk "playing on phonetic illiteracy" (the expression of the writer himself).

Bazhov's tales absorbed plot motifs, fantastic images, color, the language of folk legends and their folk wisdom. However, the author is not just a folklorist-processor, he is an independent artist who uses excellent knowledge of the Ural miner's life and oral art to embody philosophical and ethical ideas. Talking about the art of the Ural craftsmen, about the talent of the Russian worker, reflecting the colorfulness and originality of the old mining life and the social contradictions characteristic of it, Bazhov at the same time raises general questions in his tales - about true morality, about the spiritual beauty and dignity of a working person, about aesthetic and psychological laws of creativity. Fantastic characters of fairy tales personify the elemental forces of nature, which entrusts its secrets only to the brave, hardworking and pure soul. Bazhov managed to give his fantastic characters (the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Veliky Poloz, Ognevushka-Poskakushka, etc.) extraordinary poetry and endowed them with a subtle and complex psychology.

The tales recorded and processed by Bazhov are originally folklore. Many of them (the so-called "secret tales" - old oral legends of the Ural miners) he heard as a boy from V. A. Khmelinin from the Polevskoy plant (Khmelinin-Slyshko, grandfather Slyshko, "Glass" from "Ural byli"). Grandfather Slyshko is the narrator in The Malachite Box. Later, Bazhov had to officially declare that this was a trick, and he did not just write down other people's stories, but really is their writer.

Later, the term "skaz" entered Soviet folklore with light hand Bazhov to define working prose (workers' prose). After some time, it was nevertheless established that it does not denote any new folklore phenomenon - “tales” turned out to be legends, fairy tales, memories, that is, genres that have existed for many hundreds of years.

Ural

The Urals is “a rare place both in terms of craftsmen and beauty.” It is impossible to know the beauty of the Urals if you do not visit the amazing, enchanting silence and peace of the Ural ponds and lakes, in pine forests, on the legendary mountains. Here, in the Urals, talented craftsmen lived and worked for centuries, only here Danila the master could carve his stone flower, and somewhere here the Ural craftsmen saw the Mistress of the copper mountain.

Since childhood, he liked the people, legends, fairy tales and songs of his native Urals.

P.P. Bazhov's work is firmly connected with the life of the mining Urals, the cradle of Russian metallurgy. The writer's grandfather and great-grandfather were workers and spent their whole lives at copper-smelting furnaces in the Ural factories.

Due to the historical and economic features of the Urals, the life of industrial settlements was very peculiar. Here, as elsewhere, the workers could barely make ends meet and were powerless. But, unlike other industrial regions of the country, the Urals were characterized by significantly lower wages for artisans. Here there was an additional dependence of workers on the enterprise. The breeders presented the free use of land as compensation for reduced wages.

The old workers, "experienced", were the keepers of folk miners' legends and beliefs. They were not only a kind of "folk poets", but also a kind of "historians".

The Ural land itself gave birth to legends and fairy tales. P.P. Bazhov learned to see and understand the richness and beauty of the mountainous Urals.

Archetypal images

The mistress of the Copper Mountain - the keeper of precious rocks and stones, sometimes appears before people in the form of a beautiful woman, and sometimes - in the form of a lizard in a crown. Its origin is most likely from the "spirit of the area." There is also a hypothesis that this is the image of the goddess Venus, refracted by the people's consciousness, with the sign of which for several decades in the 18th century field copper was branded.

Great Poloz - responsible for the gold. His figure was created by Bazhov on the basis of the superstitions of the ancient Khanty and Mansi, Ural legends and signs of miners and miners. Wed mythological serpent.

Grandma Sinyushka is a character related to Baba Yaga.

Jumping Fire - dancing over a gold deposit (the connection between fire and gold).

The name of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is known to every adult. At the mention of the name of this Russian writer, wonderful original tales arise in our minds about a malachite box, a stone flower, hardworking and kind Ural prospectors and skilled craftsmen. Bazhov's works take you into the world of the Ural underground and mountainous kingdom and introduce you to its magical inhabitants: the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, the Poskakushka Ognevushka, the Silver Hoof, the Great Snake and the Blue Snake.

P.P. Bazhov - master of Ural tales

Pavel in the Urals in 1879. His family traveled a lot, and much of what the boy heard and saw in his childhood in Sysert, Polevskoy, Seversky, Verkh-Sysert formed the basis of his tales about the Urals and his life. Pavel Bazhov has always been attracted to folklore.

He treated with great respect the history of his people, their original character and oral creativity. The writer constantly collected and updated folklore records and based on them created his own unique tales. The heroes of his works are ordinary workers.

Display of historical events in the tales of P. Bazhov

Serfdom existed in the Urals until the end of the 19th century. The works of P.P. Bazhov describe the time when the people lived under the yoke of masters. In pursuit of income, the plant owners did not think about the cost of human life and the health of their wards, who were forced to work in dark and damp mines from morning to night.

Despite hard times and hard labor, the people did not lose heart. Among the workers were very creative, smart people who know how to work and deeply understand the world of beauty. Description of their characters, life and spiritual aspirations contain the works of Bazhov. Their list is quite large. The literary merits of Pavel Bazhov were appreciated during his lifetime. In 1943, he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the book of Ural tales, The Malachite Box.

The message of the Ural tales

The tales are not the early works of Pavel Bazhov. Despite the fact that the journalist, publicist and revolutionary Bazhov was always interested in folklore, the idea of writing fairy tales did not appear to him immediately.

The first tales "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and "Dear Name" were published before the war, in 1936. Since then, Bazhov's works began to appear in print regularly. The purpose and meaning of the tales was to raise the fighting spirit and self-awareness of the Russian people, to realize themselves as a strong and invincible nation, capable of exploits and confronting the enemy.

It is no coincidence that Bazhov's works appeared before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and continued to go out during it. In this regard, P.P. Bazhov was a visionary. He managed to foresee the onset of trouble and contribute to the opposition to world evil.

Mystical images in the literary works of P.P. Bazhov

Many people know what works Bazhov wrote, but not everyone understands where the writer borrowed the magical images of his tales from. Of course, the folklorist only conveyed folk knowledge about otherworldly forces that helped good heroes and punished evil people. There is an opinion that the surname Bazhov comes from the word "bazhit", which is a Ural dialect and literally means "tell", "foreshadow".

Most likely, the writer was a person well versed in mysticism, since he decided to recreate the mythological images of the Great Snake, the Pokakushki Fire Fire, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, the Silver Hoof and many others. All these magical heroes represent the forces of nature. They possess untold riches and open them only to people with pure and open hearts, who oppose the forces of evil and need help and support.

Bazhov's works for children

The meaning of some tales is very deep and does not lie on the surface. It must be said that not all of Bazhov's works will be understandable to children. The tales addressed directly to the younger generation traditionally include "Silver Hoof", "Fire Jumper" and "Blue Snake". Bazhov's works for children are written in a very concise and accessible language.

Here, much attention is not paid to the experiences of the characters, but the emphasis is on the description of miracles and magical characters. Here Fire-Rapting in a fiery sarafan is mischievous, in another tale Silver Hoof suddenly appears and knocks out precious stones for an orphan girl and a good hunter Kokovani. And, of course, who doesn't want to meet the Blue Snake, which spins with a wheel and shows where the gold lies?

Bazhov's Tales and Their Use in Fairytale Therapy

Bazhov's works are very convenient to use in fairy tale therapy, the main task of which is the formation of positive values and motivations in children, strong moral principles, the development of their creative perception of the world and good intellectual abilities. Bright images of fairy tales, simple, sincere, hardworking people from the people, fantastic characters will make the child's world beautiful, kind, unusual and bewitching.

The most important thing in Bazhov's tales is morality. Her child must learn and remember, and the help of an adult in this is very necessary. After the fairy tale is told, it is necessary to have a conversation with the children in the same friendly manner about the main characters, about their behavior and fate. Kids will be happy to talk about those characters and their actions that they liked, express their opinion about the negative characters and their behavior. Thus, the conversation will help to consolidate the positive effect of fairy tale therapy, contributing to the firm rooting of the acquired knowledge and images in the mind of the child.

List of works by Bazhov:

"Diamond match";
"Amethyst business";
"Bogatyrev's mitten";
"Vasina Gora";
"Veselukhin Spoons";
"Blue snake";
"Mining Master";
"Distant gazer";
"Two lizards";
"Demidov's caftans";
"Dear name";
"Dear earth coil";
"Ermakov swans";
"Zhabreev walker";
"Iron tires";
"Zhivinka in business";
"Live light";
"Snake trail";
"Golden Hair";
"The Golden Flower of the Mountain";
"Golden dykes";
"Ivanko-winged";
"Stone Flower";
"Key of the Earth";
"Root mystery";
"Cat's ears";
"Circular Lantern";
"Malachite Box";
"Markov stone";
"Copper share";
"Mistress of the Copper Mountain";
"On the same spot";
"The inscription on the stone";
"Not that heron";
"Fire-jump";
"Eagle Feather";
"Prikazchikov's soles";
"About the Great Snake";
"About divers";
"About the main thief";
"Ore Pass";
"Silver Hoof";
"Sinyushkin well";
"Sun Stone";
"Juicy pebbles";
"Gift of the Old Mountains";
"Cockroach soap";
"Tayutkino mirror";
"Grass trap";
"Heavy coil";
"At the old mine";
"Fragile twig";
"Crystal Lacquer";
"Pig-iron grandmother";
"Silk Hill";
"Broad Shoulder".

Bazhov's works, a list of which it is advisable for parents to study in advance, will help to form in children a sense of sympathy for kind characters, such as the old man Kokovanya, Darenka, and a negative attitude, censure of others (the clerk from the fairy tale "The Copper Mountain Mistress"). They will instill in the child a sense of kindness, justice and beauty and teach him to empathize, help others and act decisively. Bazhov's works will develop the creative potential of children and will contribute to the emergence in them of the values and qualities necessary for a successful and happy life.

Danila and Katya, the one who rescued her fiancé from the Mistress of the Mountain, had a lot of children. Eight, listen, man, and all the boys. Mother, more than once, was jealous of at least one girl at a glance. Read...

This happened shortly after the fifth year. Before the war with the Germans begins. Read...

Our Polevoy, they say, was set by the treasury. There were no other factories in those places then. They went with a fight. Well, the treasury, you know. The soldiers were sent. The village of the Mountain Shield was purposely built so that the road was safe. On Gumeshki, you see, at that time the visible wealth lay on top - they approached it. We got there, of course. The people were caught up, the plant was installed, some Germans were brought in, but things did not go well. It didn't work and it didn't work. Read...

Was in the field clerk - Severyan Kondratyich. Oh, and fierce, oh, and fierce! There has never been such a thing as factories. From dogs dog. The beast. Read...

After Stepanova's death - this is who malachite pillars got, a lot of people reached for Krasnogorka. The hunt was for those pebbles that they saw in Stepan's dead hand. It was in autumn, before the snow. Are you trying too hard here? And as the winter passed, they again ran into that place. Read...

This was not at our plant, but in the Sysert half. And not at all in the old days. My old men were already running around in their pods in the factory. Who is on the ball, who is on the bedding, and then in the locksmith, or in the forge. Well, you never know where youngsters were driven at the fortress. Read...

There was another such case at the mine. In one face, ore with a thin section went. They beat off a piece, and you see, he has some kind of corner of a gladekhonek. Like a mirror shines, look into it to anyone. Read...

In those years, there was no mention of the Upper and Ilyinsky factories. Only our Polevaya and Sysert. Well, in the North they also rattled with a piece of iron. Yes, just a little. Sysert lived brighter than all. She, you see, on the road fell in the Cossack side. People were passing here and there. They themselves went to the pier near Revda with iron. You never know who you meet on the road, what you hear a lot. And there are many villages around. Read...

There was only one man in the factory. His name was Levonte. Such a diligent man, unrequited. From a young age they kept him in grief, that is, on Gumeshki. Mined copper. So he spent all his young years underground. Like a worm digging in the ground. I didn’t see the light, I turned green all over. Well, it's a well-known thing - a mountain. Dampness, darkness, heavy spirit. Read...

Those guys, the Levontievs, to whom Poloz showed wealth, began to get better in life. In vain that the father soon died, they live better and better every year. They set up a hut. Not that the house is intricate, but the hut is right. They bought a cow, got a horse, they began to let lambs up to three years in the winter. Mother cannot be overjoyed that at least in her old age she saw the light. Read...

Went once two of our factory grass to look. And they had long hauls. Somewhere behind Severushka. Read...

Nastasya, Stepanov's widow, has left a casket of malachite. With every feminine device. Rings there, earrings and protcha according to the women's rite. Read...

Not only marbles were famous for the stone business. Also in our factories, they say, they had this skill. The only difference is that ours burned more with malachite, how it was enough, and the grade is not higher. Read...

Katya, Danilov's bride, remained unmarried. Two or three years have passed since Danilo got lost - she completely left the bride's time. For twenty years, in our factory way, an overage is considered. Read...

There was a wasteland in Diagon Ford, where the school stands. The wasteland is big, in plain sight, but not buried. Upland, you see. It is troublesome to grow a garden here - there is a lot of sweat, but little sense.

Representing a collection of ancient legends that went among the miners.

P. P. Bazhov

P. P. Bazhov began to write "Ural Tales" in the 1930s. At first they were published in a magazine. Then came a collection of Ural tales, which was called "Malachite Box". It was published in 1939. The author has updated the book many times.

In 1943, Pavel Petrovich received the Stalin Prize for his work.

"Ural Tales"

List of stories included in the collection

The book "Ural Tales" by P. P. Bazhov includes the following works:

"Mountain Master"
Vasina Gora.
"Pig-iron grandmother".
"Snake trail".
"Gift of the Old Mountains".
"Diamond match".
"Amethyst business".
"Two Lizards".
"Golden Hair"
"Sun Stone"
"Copper share".
"Silk Hill".
"Blue snake".
"Mistress of the Copper Mountain."
"About the Great Poloz".
"Tayutkino mirror".
"Distant Viewer".
"Crystal Lacquer".
"The inscription on the stone."
"Markov stone".
"The Golden Flower of the Mountain".
"The Mysterious Tulunkin".
"At the old mine."
"Ore Pass".

And many others.

"Mistress of the Copper Mountain"

This is one of the most significant, well-known and beloved by readers of the works of the book "Ural Tales". Below is a summary of this work.

"Malachite Box"

Another very famous work of the Ural Tales cycle. A summary of the "Malachite Box" is presented in this article. This tale is a continuation of the story about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Stepan died, but his widow Nastasya kept the malachite box. Decorations were kept in it, donated by the hostess. Only Nastasya did not wear them and wanted to sell them. There were many people who wanted to buy the box. Yes, but everyone offered a small price. There was another reason why she kept the box with her. The youngest daughter, Tatyana, was very fond of these jewelry. Tanyusha grew up and, thanks to a wanderer who asked to spend the night in their house, she learned to embroider with silk and beads. And she was such a craftswoman that she began to earn big money. Soon the master saw the girl and was so struck by her beauty that he offered her to become his wife. She agreed, but made a condition that she would marry him if he showed her the queen in a room made of malachite by her father. The master promised to grant her wish. Once in the malachite chamber of the queen, the girl leaned against the wall and melted. Since then, no one has heard anything about her, only they began to notice that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain began to double.

"Stone Flower"

"Silver Hoof"

"Sinyushkin well"

The book "Ural Tales" includes a story about a good fellow Ilya. He was left an orphan early on. He inherited only a sieve full of feathers from his grandmother Lukerya, who ordered her grandson not to pursue wealth. Once Ilya decided to go to the mine by a short road. And this path through the swamp lay. Ilya wanted to drink. He looks, and in the swamp there is an area with clean water, like a well. He decided to drink this water, lay down on the ground, and out of the water Sinyushka stretched out her hands to him. He managed to cope with her charms, he got up and spat on her hand. And she began to tease him that he would not be able to drink water from her well. Ilya promised Sinyushka that he would return, and left.

This tale is that the main wealth in life is not gold and gems. Sinyushkin's well is a test that only one who does not envy, is not greedy and remembers advice can pass.

"Rapid Fire"

The book written by Bazhov P. - "Ural Tales" - includes a story about a gold mine. Once the peasants were sitting by the fire, and with them - the boy Fedyunka. And suddenly they saw a red-haired girl who jumped out of the fire. She danced, and then she stopped near a pine tree and stamped her foot. According to legend, this is how she indicated the place where you need to look for gold. Only she deceived this time - there was nothing under the pine. Soon Fedyunka saw Poskakushka again. This time she showed him the right place. The boy found gold and lived comfortably for 5 years. The people heard about it, and everyone rushed to that mine for gold. They were coming from all directions. Yes, only gold was lost there because of this.