The Stone Flower

The tales of the Russian and Soviet writer, the Ural narrator, the talented handle of folk traditions, legends, the Ural tales of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879-1950) absorbed plot motifs, fantastic images, flavor, the language of folk traditions and folk wisdom. Both the Russian classics N.V. Gogol, N. S. Leskov, V.I. Dahl, so contemporaries of Bazhov: I. E. Babel, M. M. Zoshchenko, A. M. Remizov, M . M. Prishvin and other writers. Having shown himself in this genre as an independent artist, P.P. Bazhov used the knowledge of the Ural mining of life and oral folk art to embody moral and ethical ideas.
The present edition included the four most popular and most famous works from the first published on January 28, 1939 of the collection of fairy tales" Malachite box ":" Copper Mountain Mistress", "Malachite Casket", "Stone Flower" and "Mountain Master " - with drawings of the original Rostov artist Marina Valentinovna Ordynskaya