The work "The Malachite Box" brought Pavel Petrovich Bazhov the fame of one of the best storytellers of the 20th century. He belongs to the number of writers (like Gogol, Turgenev), whose lines are as melodic as poetry. His tales can really be read while enjoying. A special unique creative manner, abounding in the dialects of the Urals and organically associated with local folklore, widely uses conversational turns. Uneasy life and creative path led Bazhov to create a literary pearl only in the sixtieth year of life. Classics, in love with the ancient traditions of the Ural miners, managed to perform a miracle: accumulating a huge layer of oral legends, stories, legends, weave from them a new folk epic. Thus, Bazhov's fairy tales "The Malachite Box" appeared.
Pavel Petrovich in his own way perceives the nature of his native land. For him, the forests are malachite and emerald, rock crystal is a mountain lake, autumn ashberry is a ruby color. The main heroes of the Bazhov tales of the Ural are craftspeople, prospectors who seek their happiness in the depths of the rich land. The collection of his works Pavel Petrovich called the "Malachite Box". The summary of numerous author's texts is the immersion of the reader in the folklore world of the Urals.
In the very first tale - "Copper Mountain Mistress", as well as in the following "Stone Flower", "Stone Twig", "Malachite Box" appears the most original character of the great storyteller - Mistress of the Copper Mountain. The "stone maid," as she called herself, helped the master Stepan to buy back his family. Good luck brings a meeting with her kind people, but does not add happiness. Stepan is dying. His son Mityunka, who has exceeded his father's skill, makes a branch of gooseberries from stone. She herself became the keeper of the bowels, Tanya, Stepan's daughter - the main heroine of the story "The Malachite Casket". The summary of it - in the pride and beauty of a simple girl, eclipsed, not without the help of the Mistress of Copper Mountain, the queen herself. Only the most worthy helps sorceress. The key to the fabulous underground wealth is diligence, kind heart, love for your land. What is she like? The girl is nice, short, mobile, like mercury, differs in that the braid is tightly pressed to the back, but the dress is special - from the silky tender malachite. In the braids - marvelous ribbons are woven, - not so red, or else - green. When the Mistress of the Copper Mountain moves, the sound comes from these tapes, when she cries, the tears emerald freeze. In its possessions, stone trees grow under the earth, stone grass grows noisy, even without the sun - light as in the pre-tent season. She is strict with people. They are not supposed to step over its prohibitions. Here are some of them. It is not allowed for human women to descend into the mine. The masters, whom she patronizes, should not be married.
The collection of tales "Malachite Box" is especially telling about Ural gold. The summary of the story "About the great skid" about the fantastic reptile, which came in the guise of a man to the aid of the impoverished children of the mountain master. He gave the family a treasure. But the mighty serpent does not tolerate that prospectors engaged in fraud, deceit, and offend other people. Therefore he will divert from the gold of the unworthy. People met and his daughter - a beauty with a golden braid at ten sazhens. She will drop her scythe into the river - her fire burns, her water glows, she looks hurt, she wants to take her eyes off.
The golden veins that come out to the surface are guarded by a tiny fairy girl with a red braid, the size of a doll, dressed in a blue sarafan, holding a blue handkerchief in her hand - Ognevushka-Poskakushka. The same story Bazhov tells that she appears suddenly in the middle of a fire or a fire, dancing, begins to spin, increasing to normal growth of the girl. If it appears where - look for gold there, there will certainly be, though a little. But if the eagle owls nearby, the work disappears, the treasure will disappear.
The inheritance to store the treasures fell to the girl-grandmother Sinyushka, always the old, always young, another unique character of the collection "The Malachite Casket". The summary of the story "Sinyushkin Well" - about how she bestowed on nuggets honest and hard-working guy Ilya. A greedy person will only get an illusion: he will bring a treasure in his bosom home, looking - and from him only the marsh mist remained.
A special fairy folklore world Bazhova earned him the glory of the classic of Russian literature. The name of the writer is immortalized not only in literature. In Moscow there is an amazing square named after Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, with sculptures of the characters "Malachite box". Monuments have been erected in the Urals: in Yekaterinburg and Sysert. For many people, his "Malachite Box" has become one of the most beloved books.