P. Bazhov "Stone Flower": a summary. "Stone Flower" - a tale of Bazhov

P.P. Bazhov is a unique writer. After all, fame came to him at the sunset of his life, at the age of sixty. His collection "Malachite Box" dates from 1939. The recognition of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov brought a unique authorial processing of the Ural tales. This article is an attempt to write a summary for one of them. “Stone Flower” is a tale about the growth and professional development of the phenomenal master of gem processing Danila.

The uniqueness of the writing style of Bazhov

Pavel Bazhov, creating this masterpiece, seemed to spread the folklore of the Urals like a thread, thoroughly studying it, and weave it again, combining the harmony of the masterful literary presentation and the originality of the colorful dialects of a wonderful land - a stone belt encircling Russia.

The slenderness of the structure of the tale is emphasized by its brief content - the “Stone Flower” is perfectly arranged by the author. There is nothing superfluous in it, artificially dragging out the course of the plot. But at the same time, it is surprisingly fully felt the primordial dialect of the people who inhabit this land. The author's language of presentation by Pavel Petrovich is his creative find. What achieves the melodiousness and originality of Bazhov’s writing style? Firstly, most often he uses dialecticisms in a diminutive-affectionate form (“boy”, “little girl”, “old man”). Secondly, he uses in his speech purely Ural word-formation dialectisms ("finger-off", "here-de"). Thirdly, the writer does not skimp on the use of proverbs and sayings.

Cowgirl - Danilka Nedokormysh

In this article, devoted to the most significant Bazhov tale, we offer the reader’s attention to its summary. The “Stone Flower” introduces us to the best in the treatment of malachite by the elderly master Prokopyich, who is looking for a successor. One by one, he sends back the boys sent to him by the master “to science” until a twelve-year-old, “tall in legs”, curly-skinned, thin, blue-eyed “boy” Danilka Nedokormysh appears. He did not have the ability to become a palace servant, he could not "loosen up" around the owner. But he could "stand for a day" in the picture, but was a "slow moving". He was capable of creativity, as evidenced by the summary. “Stone Flower” tells that, working as a shepherd, a teenager “learned to play on the horn!” In the melody of his guessed and the noise of the stream, and the voices of birds ...

Cruel punishment. Treatment at Vihorikha

Yes, once he didn’t keep track of the game for the “little girls”. He gave them to “Yelnichnaya”, where there was “the wolf’s place”, and several cows were missing. His master executioner fastened as punishment, brutalized by Danilka’s silence under the whips, until he lost consciousness, but his grandmother Vyhorich left. The kind grandmother knew all the herbs, and if Danilushka had been longer, she would have become, maybe, a herbalist, and P.P.Bazhov would have written differently. "Stone Flower".

The plot begins exactly during the story of the old woman Vihorikha. In her monologue, one can see the author's fiction of the original Ural writer. And she tells Danila that, in addition to open flowering plants, there are also closed, secret, witchcraft: thieves flower of fern on Midsummer Day, opening locks to those who saw it, and a stone flower blooming at the malachite rock for a serpent holiday. And the person who sees the second flower will become unhappy. Obviously then - the dream to see this unearthly beauty of stone shook the guy.

To study - to Prokopyich

The clerk noticed that Danila began to pace, and although he was still weak, he gave it to Prokopyich for study. He looked at the guy who was thin from an ailment and went to the landowner - to ask him to be taken away. Krut was Prokopyich in his sciences, and he could also kill a good bream for negligence to embed a student-stupid. For the masters, it really was then in practice, and Bazhov P.P. ("Stone Flower") simply described how it was ... But the landowner was unshakable. To teach ... Prokopich returned with nothing to his workshop, looking, and Danilka is already there and, bending over without blinking, is examining a piece of malachite, which he began to process. The master was surprised and asked what he noticed. And Danilka answered him that the cut was wrong: in order to expose the unique pattern of this stone, it would be necessary to start processing from the other side ... The master made a noise, became indignant at the upstart, "jerk" ... But this is only outwardly, but then he thought: “So, so ... There will be good of you, man ...” The master woke up in the middle of the night, chopped off the malachite, where the little boy said, “unearthly beauty…” Wondered a lot: “Well, big-eyed!”

Prokopyich care about Danilka

The fairy tale “Stone Flower” tells us that the miserable orphan Prokopyich fell in love with his orphan, took us for his son. A brief summary of it tells us that he did not immediately accustom him to the craft. Nedokormysh could not afford the hard work, and the chemicals used in the "stone craft" could well undermine his poor health. Gave time to gain strength, directed the housework to do, fed, dressed up ...

Once the clerk (they say about such in Russia - "nettle seed") saw Danilka, whom the good master released to the pond. The clerk noticed that the guy had grown stronger, that he was in new clothes ... There were questions ... Does his master deceive him by taking Danilka for his son? But what about craft training? When will the benefits of his work be? And he went with Danilka to the workshop and began to ask sensible questions: both on the instrument, and on the materials, and on the processing. Prokopyich was stupefied ... After all, he did not teach the boy at all ...

The clerk is surprised at the skill of a guy

However, the summary of the Stone Flower story tells us that Danilka answered everything, told everything, showed everything ... When the clerk left, Prokopyich, who was numb before that, asked Danilka: “How do you know all this?” “Noticed,” the “little guy” answers him. Even tears appeared in the eyes of the moved old man, thought: “I’ll teach everything, I won’t hide anything ...” However, since then the clerk began to carry on Danilka work on malachite: caskets, all kinds of plaques. Then - threaded things: “candlesticks”, “leaves and petals” all kinds of things ... And how the guy made him a snake out of malachite, the clerk of the master informed him: “We’ve got a wizard!”

Barin appreciates artisans

Barin decided to arrange an exam for Danilke. Firstly, he ordered that Prokopyich not allow him. And he wrote to his clerk: “Leave him a workshop with a machine tool, but I admit it to the master if he will carve a cup for me ...” Even Prokopyich couldn’t do this ... Did you hear the matter ... Danilko thought for a long time: where to start. However, the clerk does not let up, he wants to curry favor with the landowner, ”the Stone Flower tells a very brief summary. And Danilka did not begin to conceal his talent, and he made a bowl as if alive ... A greedy clerk forced Danilka to make three such items. He understood that Danilka could become a "gold mine", and henceforth did not intend to spare him, he would torture him completely with work. Yes, only the master turned out to be smart.

After checking the guy for skill, he decided to create better conditions for him to work more interesting for him. He overlaid a small rent, he returned to Prokopyich (to create together as a handy). He also sent a complex drawing of a cunning bowl. And, without setting a deadline, he ordered her to be done (even though they think for five years).

Path of the master

The fairy tale “Stone Flower” is unusual and original. A summary of Bazhov's work, speaking the eastern language, is the way of the master. What is the difference between a master and a craftsman? The artisan sees the drawing and is able to reproduce it in the material. And the master understands and represents beauty, and then reproduces it. So Danilka critically looked at that cup: there are many difficulties, but beauty is not enough. He asked the clerk for permission in his own way to do. He thought, because the master asked for an exact copy ... And then he answered Danilka to make two bowls: a copy and his own.

Party about making the master's bowl

First he made a flower according to the drawing: everything is accurate, verified. On this occasion, they did a party at home. Danilin's bride, Katya Latemina, came with her parents and a stone craftsman. They look, approve of the cup. If we judge the fairy tale at this stage of its narration, then everything seems to have worked out for Danilka with both the profession and personal life ... However, the summary of the book “Stone Flower” is not just about complacency, but about high professionalism, looking for new ways of expression talent.

Danilka does not like such work, he wants the leaves and flowers on the bowl to be as if alive. With this thought between work, he disappeared into the fields, looked closely and, having looked closely, conceived his bowl as a dope bush to do. Why is he from such thoughts. And when the guests at the table heard his words about the beauty of the stone, Danilka was interrupted by an old-old grandfather, in the past - a mountain foreman, who had also taught Prokopyich. He told Danilke, so that he would not make a fool, he worked easier, otherwise you can get into the mountain masters of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. They work for her and create things of extraordinary beauty.

When Danilka asked what they were, these special masters, grandfather replied that they saw a stone flower and enlightened beauty ... These words sank into the guy’s heart.

Datura bowl

He postponed his marriage because he began to reflect on the second bowl, conceived in a manner that imitates dope grass. Loving bride Katerina began to cry ...

What is the summary of the Stone Flower? Perhaps it lies in the fact that the paths of high creativity are inscrutable. Here Danilka, for example, drew the motives of his crafts in nature. He wandered through forests and meadows and found what inspired him, descended into a copper mine in Gyumushki. And he was looking for a piece of malachite, suitable for making a bowl.

And then one day, when a guy, having carefully studied another stone, disappointedly stepped aside, he heard a voice advising him to look elsewhere - at the Snake Hill. Twice this advice was repeated to the master. And when Danila looked back, he saw a transparent, barely noticeable, fleeting outline of a woman.

The next day the master went there and saw "malachite twisted". This stone was ideally suited for a bowl - and its color is darker downwards, and veins in the right places. Immediately, he set to work earnestly. Wonderfully he managed to trim the bottom of the bowl. It turned out to be a natural dope bush. But when the cup of the flower was ground, the cup lost its beauty. Danilushko completely lost his sleep. "How to fix?" - thinks. Yes, he looked at Katyusha's tears and decided - to marry!

Meeting with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain

We have already planned a wedding - in late September, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On that day, the snakes are going to winter ... Danilko just decided to go to the Snake Hill to see the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Only she could help overpower the dope cup. The meeting happened ...

The first to speak was this fabulous woman. Know, she respected this master. She asked if the dope bowl had come out. The guy confirmed. Then she advised him - to continue to continue to dare, to do something else. For her part, she promised help: he would find a stone according to his thoughts.

But Danila began to ask to show him a stone flower. The Mistress of the Mountain of Copper dissuaded him, explained that although she did not hold anyone, but he who saw him returned to her. However, the master insisted. And she led him into her stone garden, where both the leaves and the flowers are all made of stone. She brought Danila to the bush, where wonderful bells grew.

Then the master asked the Mistress to give him a stone for making such bells, but the woman refused him, saying that she would have acted if Danila himself had invented them ... She said this, and the master turned out to be in the same place - on the Snake Hill.

Then Danila went to his bride to a party, but did not cheer up. Having led Katya home, he returned to Prokopyich. And at night, when the mentor was sleeping, the guy broke his dope cup, spat in the master’s cup, and left. Where - unknown. Some said that he had lost his mind, others - that he went to the Mistress of the Copper Mountain to work as a mountain foreman.

On this omission, Bazhov’s story “Stone Flower” ends. This is not just a refusal, but a kind of “bridge” to the next tale.

Conclusion

Bazhov's Tale "The Stone Flower" is a deeply folk work. It glorifies the beauty and wealth of the Ural land. With knowledge and love, Bazhov writes about the life of the Urals, their development of the bowels of their native land. The image of Danila the master created by the writer became widely known and symbolic. The story of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain found its continuation in the subsequent works of the author.