The work “Malachite Box” brought Pavel Petrovich Bazhov the glory of one of the best storytellers of the 20th century. He is among the writers (like Gogol, Turgenev), whose lines are as melodic as poetry. His tales can really be read while enjoying. A special unique creative manner, replete with dialects of the Ural region and organically associated with local folklore, makes wide use of colloquial expressions. A difficult life and career led Bazhov to create a literary pearl only in the sixtieth year of his life. The classic, in love with the ancient legends of the Ural miners, managed to perform a miracle: having accumulated a huge layer of oral legends, stories, legends, weaving a new folk epic out of them. So Bazhov's tales “Malachite Box” appeared.
Pavel Petrovich perceives in his own way the nature of his native land. For him, forests are malachite and emerald, rock crystal is a mountain lake, autumn rowan casts in ruby ​​color. The main characters of Bazhov's Ural tales are skilled people, prospectors, who seek their happiness in the depths of a rich land. The collection of his works Pavel Petrovich called "Malachite Box". A summary of numerous copyright texts is the immersion of the reader in the folklore world of the Urals.
In the very first tale - “The Copper Mountain Mistress”, as well as in the subsequent “Stone Flower”, “Stone Branch”, “Malachite Box” the most original character of the great storyteller - the Mistress of the Copper Mountain appears. The “stone girl”, as she called herself, helped master Stepan to redeem his family. Good luck brings meeting good people with her, but does not add happiness. Stepan is dying. His son Mityunk, who exceeded his father’s skill, makes a gooseberry branch from stone. She became the keeper of the bowels, Tanya, the daughter of Stepan, is the main character of the tale "Malachite Box". Its summary is in the pride and beauty of a simple girl who eclipsed the queen herself with the help of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Only the most worthy helps the sorceress. The key to the fabulous underground riches is hard work, a good heart, love for their land. What does she look like? The girl is okay, short, agile, like mercury, is distinguished by the fact that the braid is pressed tightly to her back, and her dress is special - made of soft silk malachite. In braids - marvelous ribbons are interwoven, either red or green. When the Mistress of the Copper Mountain moves, the ringing comes from these ribbons, when she cries, the tears emerald. In her possessions, stone trees grow underground, stone grass rustles, even without the sun - it is light, as in the sunset time. She is strict with people. They are not supposed to step over its prohibitions. Here is some of them. Human women are not supposed to descend into the mine. The masters, whom she patronizes, should not marry.
A collection of tales "Malachite Box" is especially narrating about Ural gold. Summary of the tale "About the great snake" about the fairytale reptile, which came in the form of a man to the aid of impoverished children of the mountain master. He bestowed a family of treasure. But the powerful snake does not tolerate miners engaged in fraud, deceit, offended other people. Therefore, he will discourage unworthy gold. People met his daughter - a beauty with a golden braid of ten fathoms. She will lower her scythe into the river - her water burns, her water glows, it hurts to look, she wants to look away.
The gold veins that come to the surface are protected by a tiny fairy-tale girl with a red braid, the size of a doll, dressed in a blue sundress, holding a blue handkerchief in her hand - a Fireman-Poskushka. Bazhov’s self-titled tale tells that she suddenly appears in the middle of a fire or from a smoke, dancing, begins to spin, increasing to the normal height of the girl. If it appears where - look for gold there, there will certainly be, though not much. But if an eagle owl wanders near - the matter is gone, the treasure will disappear.
The destiny to keep the treasures fell to the girl-grandmother Sinyushka, always old, always young, another unique character in the collection "Malachite Box". Summary of the tale "Sinyushkin well" - about how she gifted with the nuggets the honest and hardworking guy Ilya. A greedy person will receive only an illusion: he will bring treasure behind his bosom, looking, and from it only swamp fog remains.
The special fabulous folklore world of Bazhov earned him fame as a 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 characters from the Malachite Box. In the Urals: in Yekaterinburg and Sysert - monuments were erected. For many people, his "Malachite Box" has become one of his favorite books.