Listen to Bazhov’s biography

The Russian language teacher and a volunteer in the Red Army 2. The military history of the Urals and the local folklore 3. Editor and writer Pavel Bazhov became famous as the author of fairy tales based on the Ural folklore. The works about the mistress of the Copper Mountain, Danila Mastera and other characters were included in the collection "Malachite Casket".

In these stories, Bazhov connected fairy tales with a description of the real life of the miners, which was familiar to him since childhood. Pavel Bazhov was the only child in the family. He was given to study at the local zemstvo school, then he graduated from the theological school in Yekaterinburg and the Perm Theological Seminary. In the year, Bazhov was offered to enter the theological academy.

In the year, Bazhov married his former graduate Valentina Ivanitskaya, and three years later he moved with his wife to the city of Kamyshlov Perm province. In the year, Pavel Bazhov was elected to the Council of Peasant, Workers and Soldiers' Deputies Kamyshlov. The future writer released the pamphlet “Program of the Labor Peasantry”, the newspapers published his articles that came out under the pseudonym of the village.

In the same year, Bazhov volunteered for the Red Army. The military history of the Urals and the local folklore Pavel Bazhov worked in Sverdlovsk by the editor of the "peasant newspaper." He dismantled readers' letters, collected material for future works, wrote essays about old factories. In the year, Bazhov’s book entitled “The Urals were. From the recent life of Syurt factories.

” In the years, the magazines published his essays and a story about the military history of the Urals. He was especially interested in the traditions that the workers of the Ural factories told. During the Civil War, the entire archive of these materials died. The writer restored many details for his works from memory. In X Bazhov, he again began to collect folklore.

On trips, he turned to the “factory old people” - as the prose writer called people who worked in factories for several decades. Such work was hard and dangerous, mountain masters often received injuries, many remained disabled. Workers were transferred to easy work: they served as watchmen, storekeepers. The old people told the traditions that they heard from their grandfathers, and complemented them with their own details.

Our people, of course, are heavy. At first glance, maybe it will seem difficult for you. It is true, until ours are taking a closer look at you, they will hold on to unconvinial. Historically, such a character has developed. There was such a life. Special conditions. The line between Europe and Asia, between the freestyle and hard labor. But if you are loved here, then know - this is forever.

Leo Cassil. Memories of Paul Bazhov ”“ Malachite Casket ”Pavel Bazhov began to print tales in magazines in the middle of x.

In the year, the collection “Malachite Casket” was published, it published copyright works based on working folklore. Initially, the book consisted of 14 tales. Then Bazhov supplemented him with works from the cycles “Tales of Gunsmiths” and “Tales of the Germans”. In some of the tales, the story is fictional, grandfather's audience. Its prototype was the guard of the factory warehouse Vasily Khmelinin, who told Bazhov a lot of stories.

In the speech of grandfathers, the author used a lot of dialectisms and professional vocabulary of mountain workers. One of the main fairy -tale images in the work of the writer is the mistress of the Copper Mountain, or the Malachite. The cycle about it includes ten tales, including the “Stone Flower”, “Mountain Master”, “Herbal West”, “Malachite Casket”. This heroine is the spirit of the Ural mountains, the keeper of valuable minerals.

In the tales, she appeared in front of the workers as a beautiful girl in an elegant dress: “And the clothes are also true that you won’t find another in the world. From silk, hear, malachite dress. This variety happens. Stone, and by the eye like silk, to declare with a hand. ” Her Bazhov’s hair describes this way: “The scythe is a ssiza-black and not like our girls dangles, but stuck to their backs.

At the end of the tape, it is either red or green. Through the light and subtly, they call, like sheet copper. ” The malachite in the tales could seem like a lizard with a crown, and sometimes the heroes heard only her voice. However, the hostess of the mountain does not boil down to the role of only an accomplice, accomplice, the keeper of the assembled treasures. No, she does not dispose of treasures, but “land wealth”, and disposes on its own.

At will, it may allow development, it may not be allowed, it can, using the lizards subject to it, “take away wealth”, can also collect. Pavel Bazhov. There are other characters of folk traditions in the tales of the writer, for example, a girl Azovka, who protects the treasures of Mount Azov. It is mentioned in the story "Dear Name." Bazhov recalled that Azovka was talked throughout the Urals.

According to one version, she was considered the spirit of the Tatar Princess, according to another-a captive who was cursed after death and turned into a spirit-foul. The “Silver Deer” and its varieties “Beast moose - golden horns” and “goats are a silver hoof” wandered throughout the Urals. It happened to hear about the “blue lights”, and about the “fiery ears”, and about the “blue spider” - the keeper of wealth.According to the plot, three little fellow friends met a fugitive criminal convicted of political activity, and helped him hide from the authorities.

Based on the story, director Oleg Nikolaevsky in the year shot the adventure film “The Secret of the Green Bor”. He studied written sources, recorded important events, recorded names and nicknames - family and those that were given in the work team. Bazhov collected the sayings - expressions in the speech that were used for decoration or jokes, as well as pables and sayings. At the same time, Bazhov edited books on local history and newspapers, created essays and novels.

He worked carefully on the drafts: he rewritten many times, and picked up the names to the heroes. Based on Bazhov’s tales, films were shot. Based on the tales, drawn and puppet cartoons appeared: “Sinyushkin well”, “Silver hoove” and others. In the year, the story “Far - Close” about the history of Sverdlovsk - modern Yekaterinburg was published. This autobiographical work tells about the big city how the little boy first saw him.

As a deputy, he helped collective farms conduct electricity, defended the rights of workers. He was buried in Yekaterinburg. In publications.