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Tales of Bazhov a list for children which Pavel Petrovich wrote short Ural
Reading Bazhov’s fairy tales, the list of which includes 56 works, is interesting not only for children of primary school age, but also for adults. Magic stories are recorded legends of the Ural region, where the writer was born and raised.
Brief biography of the writer
Pavel Petrovich was born into the family of a mining worker in January 1879 in the city of Sysert. The family often changed their place of residence, as my father worked at one or another plant. Childhood memories of travels in the Ural workers’ townships left warm feelings in the writer’s soul.
Bazhov’s Tales, the list for children includes 56 works, tell about the inhabitants of the Urals
Bazhov studied willingly, and successfully graduated from the primary three-year school at the age of 10. There were no funds for further education at the gymnasium, and Pavel entered the theological school in Yekaterinburg, and then at the theological seminary.
At the age of 20, he graduated from seminary, and worked as a teacher of the Russian language in the theological schools of Kamyshlov and Yekaterinburg, and in the summer he traveled around the Urals. He took his former student, Valentina Ivanitskaya, as his wife.
He supported the Bolsheviks during the revolution and the Civil War. He worked as a newspaper editor, chairman of the trade union, wrote books on the history of the Urals, was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd and 3rd convocations.
He died in Moscow on December 3, 1950, and was buried in Sverdlovsk in his native Urals.
What Bazhov wrote fairy tales for children
Bazhov’s fairy-tale characters are similar to people or animals, sometimes they are the embodiment of natural forces. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Great Snake, Grandma Sinyushka, Ognevushka-jump, Silver Hoof, Blue Snake and many others. What fairy tales Bazhov wrote, read the list:
- “Golden Hair” tells the story of a beautiful girl with a golden braid, the daughter of the Great Snake and the brave hunter Ailyp, who fell in love with her.
- “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain” is a tale about the meeting and unhappy love of Stepan, a simple mining worker and a sorceress who was the mistress of underground riches.
- The Malachite Box is a continuation of the tale about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. She gave the malachite box to Stepan for the bride Nastya, and then took his daughter to her.
- “Stone Flower” – about the orphan Danil, who became a master, made jewelry out of malachite, and dreamed of carving a stone flower to make it as if it were alive. Danila got to the mistress of the Copper Mountain, but the story does not end there.
- The Silver Hoof is a tale about the orphan Daryonka, the cat Muryonka, the old man Kokovan and the magic goat Silver Hoof, which wherever it hits the ground with its hoof, a pile of gems will appear there.
These names and short descriptions to them are only a tenth of Bazhov’s tales. Magical and a little sad, they are more the creation of the author than a retelling of folk legends. But this does not make the Ural tales less interesting.