The “Mountain Master” refers to the early tales of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, a Russian Soviet storyteller. Most of his Ural Tales was published before the war, in 1939. These include such well-known works as "Stone Flower", "Malachite Box". "Copper Mountain mistress", "Fire-hopping horse", etc.
The article provides a summary of the "Mountain Master" Bazhov.
Start
The story begins with the story that after the girl Katya disappeared, her fiance Danila the master, it became very difficult for her to live. She is waiting for her betrothed, thinking that she is about to return, but not a word from him. She vied with each other different suitors, and she is only waiting for Danila.
The people have long considered the guy dead, which is why they nicknamed Katya the "dead bride".
Further, in a summary of Bazhov’s tale “The Mountain Master”, we mention that Katya’s parents will soon die. And a quarrel arose among Katerina’s brothers and sisters over who to live in a hut. Katya took and went to Danila’s house. Danila’s adoptive father, Prokopyich, also lived there. Katya began to help him with the housework. And then old Prokopyich fell ill.
First visit to the Snake Hill
Katya wondered how they would live. And while my grandfather was still alive, I asked for lessons on how to work with stone. And when Prokopyich died, she had to survive alone. She decided somehow to make a stone bauble, she grabbed it, but there weren’t any suitable stones. She had to go to the Snake Hill - there, at the old mine, she still came across, she heard what was needed.
I found a suitable malachite in the forest at the very top of the mountain, brought it home and immediately sat down to saw it. I put on plaques and took them to the city shop, where Danila and Prokopyich handed over their crafts. She did a good job, they gave Katya a decent income. She came happy home and thinks: why did I get such a wonderful pebble, didn’t Danila send me the news?
Vision
In the next episode of the summary of "Mountain Master" we will tell you that Katerina again went on that hill. And after her the peasant went, he was also a stone-cutter and decided to see where this girl took such good material. But Katya went into such a thick thicket that he lost sight of her.
And she came to the place where she was, and sees - another pebble sticks out of that hole. She pulled it out and suddenly remembered Danila, her fiance, burst into tears. And then, when she raised her head, she saw that someone was coming to her and holding out her arms to meet her. Katya thought it was Danila, and she wanted to rush towards, but stumbled and fell, and then she came to, scared and returned home.
Meeting with the Mistress
And rumors spread around the village that the "dead bride" at night went to the Snake Hill, "waiting for the dead man." And Katya decided to watch her relatives, so that trouble would not come out.
Katya sat at home at work, sawed a stone, looked - and there was a pattern on it, as if two birds were flying towards each other. The girl understood that this was a sign her beloved gave, and again ran to the hill. And the siblings saw that she was from home, and behind her.
Katya runs to the mountain and knows how to fall into a wonderful forest - the grass is made of stone, stone trees are standing, stone birds are sitting on them. So it’s not clear where the forest is located that the people following it have lost it. And here it is, the key event of the tale, as well as the brief content of The Mountain Master, appeared right in front of Katya Kamennaya Gora Mistress. She asks her: "What do you want? A pebble or something? Take it and leave as soon as possible."
And Katya answers her bravely: "Give me back my bridegroom!" “But let's ask Danila himself,” the Mistress answers her, “what he will choose: his skill or love for you and life among people.” And he tells Danila who has left the forest that he will forget all his skill if he returns to Katya and the people. But Danila answered that for a single minute he could not forget about his bride, all the time he remembered her. Therefore, they say, he can’t stay in any way and returns home.
And the Mistress of the mountain made a farewell gift to Danila - left him his talent and craft to cut stone. I just ordered a clearing to forget this magic with a stone forest stronger.
Homecoming
We conclude the summary of “The Mountain Master” with the story that when Katya and Danila returned to the village, he informed everyone that he went to the master from a distant city to learn. He went, they say, secretly, without telling anyone. And now he's back. Well, people are behind them.
And Danila and Katya began to live and live.
This concludes the summary of the tale "Mountain Master".