The Middle Urals are beautiful, low mountains covered with dense coniferous forest go down to the very horizon, in some places the windows of lakes turn blue, brightvalleys of small rivers sparkle with greenery. The Polevskoy plant is located in one of these valleys. Here Pavel Bazhov spent his childhood. Passionately in love with his native land, P.P. Bazhov walked the Urals up and down. With a hunting rifle on his shoulder, he climbed into the most remote corners, visited forgotten mines and everywhere, wherever he was, tirelessly wrote down folk proverbs, fables, legends ... The meeting with the old worker Vasily Alekseevich Khmelinin was especially memorable for the writer. This eighty-year old man knew a great many fairy tales and visits.
Vasily Alekseevich Khmelinin became the prototype of the hero of Bazhov's tales - grandfather Slyshko, on whose behalf the writer invariably leads the story. His grandfather Slyshko received his name for his love of the word “hear”, “hear-to”.
Pavel Petrovich Bazhov devoted almost twenty years of his life to collecting Ural tales, each of which is a true pearl of folk poetry ... The merit of the writer is that he cut, polished the "stones" he found, put them in a wonderful verbal frame ... "... I am only a performer," Bazhov liked to repeat, "and the main creator is a worker."
Danila-master
Danila the master from the tale "The Stone Flower" had a real prototype - a stone cutter Danila Zverev ... A street in Yekaterinburg is named in his honor. Although the real Danila Zverev did not go to the Copper Mountain to the Mistress and did not work with malachite, he opened the fantastic world of gemstones to Pavel Bazhov. Therefore, the hero of Bazhov's tale was named Danil.
A master in the Urals is a cultural hero, like a hero for middle Russia. The image of the master has absorbed four components. First, the master professes the cult of knowledge. The Ural craftsmen inherited this trait from foreign engineers who worked at the factories of the Urals. And Danila from the tale also wanted to know the secret of the beauty of the stone. Secondly, the master is a hard worker. The worship of labor in the Urals originated from fugitive schismatics. In the wild, they could only be saved by frantic labor and deified him. And Danila works tirelessly. Thirdly, the master does not invent anything new, but brings to perfection what is already there.This feature is from the provinciality of the Urals. And Danila is trying to create a perfect creation.
Finally, the masters are associated with paganism. They inherited this connection from the local inhabitants, the Finno-Ugric peoples. And Danila does not pray for a revelation from heaven, but for his secret goes to a pagan deity - the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.
Stepan was such a wonderful craftsman - a skilled malachite carver, the hero of the story "Stone Flower", Stepan worked for several years in the underground palace of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain - the mistress of all the hidden treasures of the Urals. From her he learned the art of comprehending the "soul" of a stone
Pavel Bazhov's tales are dedicated to the working people of the old Urals. In simple words, he talks about the hard, forced life of miners who extract iron and copper, malachite and precious stones, about the inspired work of serf masters who managed to breathe life into a dead stone. Almost everything that Bazhov writes about was in fact. The heroes are not invented by him either. So, a wonderful stone carver Ivanko Krylatko- none other than a famous master Ivan Vushuev , whose wonderful works can be seen today in the Kremlin, in the Armory.
Mistress of Copper Mountain - the keeper of precious rocks and stones, sometimes appears before people in the form of a beautiful woman, and sometimes - in the form of a lizard in a crown.
The hostess who lived in the Copper Mountain comes from the image of the Mother Goddess. The goddess, according to the legends of the Finno-Ugric peoples, lived in a mountain, and there she had a tree on which hung the souls of unborn people, animals and birds. The goddess in Russian beliefs turned into the Mistress, and the tree into the Stone Flower. There is also a hypothesis that this is the image of the goddess Venus, refracted by the popular consciousness, with whom Polev's copper was branded for several decades in the 18th century. The image of the Mistress of the Mountain has become the personification of the power, wealth and beauty of the depths of the Ural Mountains, which are fully revealed only to the best workers and craftsmen. The mistress of the Copper Mountain is not only the keeper of treasures, but also the patroness of brave, courageous, creatively gifted people. The relationship of the Mistress's Copper Mountain with people is determined by special conditions, the so-called prohibitions. One of them was the prohibition of a woman to go down into the mine, in the possession of the Mistress. Others should not marry a fellow who wants to gain her protection. It was no coincidence that the workers were afraid of the Mistress and avoided meeting her.
Great Snake- the serpent is the guardian of gold. His figure was created by Bazhov on the basis of the superstitions of the ancient Khanty and Mansi, the Ural legends and the signs of miners and miners. All the gold was in his sovereignty. He tried in every possible way to prevent a person from developing gold-bearing places: he “boggled”, showing himself “in his full form,” “he made any disturbance to the prospector,” dragging an instrument into the ground or taking the gold away. The mythological serpent also has numerous daughters - Serpents. With their help, Poloz "lowered the gold along the rivers" and "led through the stone." The father of a golden-haired daughter named Golden Hair.
The Russian folklore image of Baba Yaga was formed by the 15th century - just when the Russians came to the Urals and saw the life of the Finno-Ugrians. They had a special form of forest sanctuary. A small house on high posts, surrounded by a palisade. The skulls of the sacrificed animals were hung on the palisade. There was a carved wooden doll in the house - a container for the soul of the deceased. The doll was dressed in national dress - a yaga fur coat. And the Russian newcomers learned that somewhere in the sanctuaries the Finno-Ugrians are hiding their main idol - the Golden Woman. To prevent the Russians from ravaging the sanctuaries in search of the Golden Woman, the locals killed anyone who got to the secret place. In Russian retellings, the Golden Baba and the house on the pillars merged together, and a terrible baba-in-a-yaga appeared, Baba-Yaga, who lives in a hut on chicken legs, kills intruders and snorts: “Fu-fu-fu, it smells of the Russian spirit! "
Grandma Sinyushka- a character related to Baba Yaga, the personification of the swamp gas, which in the Urals was called "cyanosis". An old woman from Bazhov's tale sits on a well full of gems and strangles those who come for her treasures. Sinyushka is the sister of Baba Yaga, she appeared in the same way. And her well is a mine flooded with groundwater, a small ancient mine of the Finno-Ugrians. There were a huge number of such mines in the vicinity of Mednaya Gora. On the site of this well, there is now the village of Zyuzelka, Sverdlovsk region.
Silver Hoof
This fabulous deer came down from the sky, and his hooves are Persian. The Finno-Ugrians believed that the Great Elk carried the sun across the sky on its horns. The shaman could summon the Elk to descend to the ground, but the ground was filthy for the sacred beast. Therefore, silver dishes were placed under the elk's hooves. Gifts were poured on them - for example, gems.
And silver dishes appeared in the Urals from merchants from Asia and the Middle East. Islam reigned there, forbidding images of people and animals, and all the dishes with engravings were exchanged by Persian merchants for the inhabitants of the Urals for furs. The shamans also adapted the dishes for the Great Elk. Such dishes are in the museum of the city of Cherdyn. On the dishes there are drawings scribbled by shaman knives over the engravings. The Russians again reinterpreted these local beliefs in their own way, and the Great Elk turned into a deer, which knocks out gems with a blow of a silver hoof.
Firefly Jump
In the Russian beliefs of the Urals, it was believed that if a fire was made over a gold deposit, a little dancing girl, Ognevushka-Poskakushka, could appear in the fire. She descended from the famous idol - the Golden Woman. The locals called the Golden Baba Sorni-Nai, in translation - "gold-fire". So a chain of meanings is being built: gold - fire - a woman, and the Fireworm-Poskakushka is born.
Earth Cat
This giant mythical Cat roams underground in the gold fields of the Chusovaya River. Near the deposits is the village of Kungurka, founded by people from the city of Kungura. And in Kungur there is a famous cave, in which, according to legend, the Underground Beast Mammoth lives. The settlers "dragged" the Mammoth along with them to Chusovaya.
In Russian beliefs, it is asserted that a ghost - a ginger cat - can be seen over the gold deposit. In folk tales, the local Mammoth crossed with the Russian Golden Cat, and the Earth Cat appeared: it lives in rocks of gold and is huge, like the Mammoth Beast.
They conceal a national flavor, descriptions of ordinary Russian people and combine reality with a fantastic beginning. In the essay "Stone Flower" the main character is a master craftsman named Danila. The author is talking about the adventures of a man in the work.
Character creation history
The character of Danila the Master had a prototype. It turned out to be Danila Zverev, masterly working with stone. Of course, the man did not work with malachite, which is considered a gem, and did not take his acquaintance with him. But this man introduced the writer to the mysterious world of natural stones.
Describing the hero-craftsman, Bazhov combines several characteristics in his image at once. A master is a person who has a great store of knowledge and skills. The specialists working at the Ural factories adopted their skills from foreign colleagues.
As hard workers, they were deeply respected. Danila, who worked without interruption, demonstrated the quality typical for workers in this field. A perfectionist, he tried to create a memorable creation. The connection with paganism in Russia is another nuance that the author of the tale draws attention to. To find out the great secret, Danila goes to the mythical Mistress of the Copper Mountain, and not to divine providence.
The book of works by Pavel Bazhov brings together the stories of ordinary hard workers of the Urals, who learned to feel the "soul" of the stone and cleanse it from the shackles of rough material, creating unique things. The author mentions the severity of such work, about how difficult life is for ordinary iron miners and those who sculpt unique works of art from soulless stone.
It is curious that along with the fictional characters and heroes, whose images are composed in the likeness of the masters familiar to the writer, the plot also contains personalities whose names were known to the readers. A separate role is assigned to Ivanko Krylatko, under whose name Ivan Vushuev, the famous stone cutter, is described.
Image in fairy tales
The fairy tale "Stone Flower", published in 1938, was created with an eye to the Ural folklore. The tales of local residents supplemented Bazhov's compositions with traditional flavor. Along with fantastic details, the author also focuses on the dramatic background of the plot. Dream and reality, art and everyday life collide in the work.
The biography of the protagonist is described in detail and becomes the basis of the storyline. From childhood, Danila was called "undernourished". The thin boy differed from his peers in dreaminess and thoughtfulness. He was observant. The adults, realizing that the hard work was too much for him, sent Danilushka to look after the cows. This task turned out to be difficult, because the boy often gazed at the objects around him, was carried away by insects, plants and everything that caught his eye.
The habit of looking at the details turned out to be useful when Danila was sent to study with the master Prokopich. The teenager had an amazing sense of beauty, which came in handy in the profession. He knew how to work better with stone and saw the disadvantages of the product and the advantages of the material. When Danila grew up, his taste, style of work and talent became the talk of the town. The patience and dedication with which the master sculpted was greatly appreciated by those around him and became the reason for the appearance of his outstanding products.
Despite the praise, Danila strove for more. He dreamed of showing people the true power of the stone. The young man remembered the tales he had heard from the witch. They spoke of a stone flower that reveals the essence of beauty and brings misfortune. To get an unprecedented miracle, Danila went to bow to the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. She went to meet the master and presented a wonderful flower. Danila's consciousness clouded over, he lost his head. The master left his bride Katya and disappeared without a trace. It was rumored that he went into the service of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.
The subsequent life of Danila is described by the author in the works "Mining Master" and "Fragile Twig". These tales were published in a collection called "Malachite Box". The main task of Bazhov was the idea to show the torment of the search for truth and harmony in creative work, the thirst for comprehension of the beautiful.
- The adaptation of the fairy tale took place for the first time in 1946. The director Alexander Ptushko decided to shoot the film. The film became a symbiosis of tales of a stone flower and a mining master. appeared in the picture in the image of Danila the master. The script was written by Bazhov himself. In 1947, the project was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Stalin Prize.
- In 1977, Oleg Nikolaevsky created a cartoon based on the fairy tale of Bazhov. The puppet show also included the work of actors.
- In 1978, Inessa Kovalevskaya shot a cartoon based on the work "Mining Master". The hand-drawn fairy tale is broadcast on television today.
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What was the name of Danila the master from Bazhov's tale in childhood?
Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (January 15 (27), 1879, Sysert - December 3, 1950, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet revolutionary, writer, folklorist, publicist, journalist. He became famous as the author of the Ural tales.
"Malachite Box" ("Ural Tales") is a collection of tales by Pavel Bazhov, an example of literary processed "working folklore" of the Urals.
"Stone Flower"
Danila, who was called Nedokormysh in the village, was apprenticed to master Prokofich. Once he received an order from a clerk: to make a chiseled bowl on legs for the master according to a special drawing. The bowl turned out to be even, smooth, but Danila was dissatisfied: “Here is the most inferior flower, and you look at it - your heart rejoices. Well, and who will the cup please? " Then he heard that Malachitnitsa had a stone flower in her possessions, and he lost his peace.
A: Undergrowth
B: Naughty
C: Sad sack
D: Undernourishment
Correct answer to the tenth question: Under-feeding, it should be noted that the players took two clues when answering this question.
Katya - Danilov's bride - remained unmarried. Two or three years have passed since Danilo got lost - she even left the bride's time. For twenty years, in our opinion, in the factory, overdone is considered. Guys like that rarely woo, there are more widowers. Well, this Katya, apparently, was pretty, all the suitors climb to her, and she only has words:
- Danil was promised.
They persuade her:
- What can you do! She promised, but did not come out. Now there is nothing to remember about this. It has long been a man bending.
Katya stands her ground:
- Danil was promised. Maybe he will come again.
They interpret it:
- He is not alive. The right thing to do.
And she rested on her own:
- Nobody saw him dead, and for me he is even more alive.
They see - the girl is not herself, - they have fallen behind. Others began to laugh at them: they called her a ghoul bride. It clung to her. Katya Mertvyakova and Katya Mertvyakova, there was no other nickname.
Then some kind of pestilence happened on people, and Katya's old people both died. She has a great relationship. Three married brothers and somewhat married sisters. The split between them came out - who should stay in his father's place. Katya sees - the confusion has gone, and says:
- I'm going to live in Danilushkov's hut. At all Prokopich became old. At least I look like him.
Brothers-sisters persuade, of course:
“It doesn't fit, sister. Prokopich is an old man, but you never know what they can say about you.
- To me, - he answers, - what? I'm not going to be a gossip. Prokopich, come on, I'm not a stranger to me. My adoptive father Danilo. I will call him Tetya.
And so she left. It would be even better to say: the family did not knit tightly. They thought to themselves: the extra from the family - less noise. And what about Prokopich? He liked it.
- Thank you, - he says, - Katya, that they remembered about me.
So they began to live. Prokopich sits at the machine, and Katya runs around the house - in the garden there, cooking, cooking and cooking. The farm is small, of course, for two ... Katya is an agile girl, how long will she take! At first they rolled smoothly, only Prokopich was getting worse and worse. One day sits, two lies. Has broken through, became old. Katya wondered how they would continue to live.
“You cannot feed yourself with women's needlework, and I don’t know any other craft”.
So he says to Prokopyich:
- Tyatya! You should at least teach me something easier.
Prokopich even found it funny.
- What are you doing! Is it a girl's business to sit behind malachite! Never heard of such a thing.
Well, she still began to look closely at Prokopychev's craft. I helped him wherever possible. Saw up there, grind. Prokopich and began to show her something or another. Not really. Grind the plaque, make the handles for the forks-knives and protch what was in use. It’s trivial, of course, the case, a penny, and all the delivery on occasion.
Prokopich did not heal for long. Here the brothers-sisters began to compel Katya:
- Now you have to get married involuntarily. How will you live alone?
Katya cut them off:
“Not your sadness. I don’t need your fiancé. Danilushko will come. He will learn in grief and come.
Brothers-sisters wave their hands at her:
- Are you in your mind, Katerina? It’s a sin to say something! A man died long ago, and she is waiting for him! Look, he'll still seduce.
“I'm not afraid,” he replies, “of that.
Then the relatives ask:
- What are you going to live with?
- About this, - answers, - also do not worry. I can hold out alone.
Brothers-sisters understood so much that little money remained from Prokopich, and again for their own:
- So the fool came out! If you have money, you definitely need a peasant in the house. The hour is not even - someone will hunt for money. Roll your head off like a chicken. I only saw the light.
- How much, - he replies, - my lot is supposed to, and I will see so much.
Brothers-sisters continued to make noise for a long time. Some are shouting, some are persuading, some are crying, and Katya starved her own:
- I can hold out alone. You don't need any of your fiancés. I have it for a long time.
Of course, the relatives got angry:
- In case, don't show your eyes to us!
- Thank you, - answers, - dear brothers, kind sisters! I will remember. Do not forget yourself - walk by!
Laughs, then. Well, relatives and doors slammed.
Katya was left alone. She cried, of course, at first, then she says:
- You're lying! I will not give in!
She wiped away her tears and busied herself with the housework. Wash and scrape - bring cleanliness. I managed - and immediately sat down to the machine. Here, too, I began to establish my own order. What she does not need is further away, and what is constantly required is close at hand. I put things in order and wanted to sit down to work.
"I'll try to grind at least one plaque myself."
Grabbed, but there is no suitable stone. The fragments of Danilushkova's dope-bowl remained, but Katya took care of them. They were tied in a special knot. Prokopich, of course, had a lot of stones. Only Prokopich sat to death at big jobs. Well, and the stone is all large. Little bits and pieces all got together - were spent on a small handicraft. So Katya thinks:
“We must, apparently, go to the mine dumps to look. Will not a suitable pebble hit. "
From Danila, and even from Prokopich, she heard that they were taking it from the Snake Hill. That's where I went.
Of course, there are always people on Gumeshki: who is sorting the ore, who is carrying it. They looked at Katya - where she went with the basket. Katya is uncomfortable that they shouldn't be staring at her. She did not even begin to look on the dumps on this side, she walked around the hill. And there was still a forest. Here Katya climbed through this forest and climbed the most Serpentine Hill and then sat down. She felt bitter - she remembered Danilushka. Sits on a stone, and tears just run. There are no people, the forest is all around - she is not guarded. So tears fall to the ground. She cried, she looked - at the very foot of the malachite-stone appeared, only it sits all in the ground. How will you take it, if there is no pick, no scrap? Katya still moved his hand. It seemed that the stone was not firmly seated. Here it is, and let's use a twig to rake the earth from the stone. I shook off as much as possible, began to stitch. The stone moved. How brittle from below - exactly the twig broke off. The pebble is small, like a tile. A finger three in thickness, palm-wide, and no more than two-quarters long. Katya even wondered:
- Just according to my thoughts. I will cut it, so how many plaques will come out. And the loss is the smallest thing.
I brought the stone home and immediately started sawing. The work is not fast, and Katya still needs to be managed at home. You see, all day at work, and there is no time to get bored. Only how to sit down at the machine, he will remember everything about Danilushka:
- He would have seen what a new master has appeared here. In his and Prokopyevo's place he is sitting!
There were, of course, oogalniks. As without it ... At night, on some holiday, Katya sat at work, and three guys climbed into the fence to her. Ali wanted to scare and something else - their business, only after drinking everything. Katya shuffles with a saw and does not hear that there are people in her hay. I heard when they began to burst into the hut:
- Open up, ghoul bride! Receive live guests!
Katya first persuaded them:
- Go away, guys!
Well, that's nothing to them. They break into the door, and they'll rip it off. Then Katya threw off the hook, loosened the doors and shouts:
- Come in, no. Who is the first to lobby?
The guys are looking, and she is with an ax.
- You, - they say, - no kidding!
- What, - answers, - jokes! Whoever is beyond the threshold, that and on the forehead.
Guys, even if they are drunk, but they see - it's not a joke. The girl is old, her mantle is steep, her eye is resolute, and she seems to have had an ax in her hands. You didn’t dare to come in. They made a noise, made a noise, got out and even told about it themselves. The guys began to tease that the three of them ran away from the same girl. They did not like it, of course, they wove it, as if Katya was not alone, but behind her was a ghoul.
- Yes, so scary that you will run away.
Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is a famous Russian and Soviet writer. He was born in 1879 into the family of a mining foreman. Mines and factories surrounded the future writer from childhood. His youth was associated with the partisan struggle for Soviet power in eastern Kazakhstan (Ust-Kamenogorsk, Semipalatinsk). In the early 1920s, the future writer returned to the Urals, where he began recording local folklore. Bazhov became famous for his stories, the first of which was published in 1936.
The origins of the "Malachite Box"
Pavel Petrovich heard old Ural legends from the watchman Vasily Khmelinin. It happened at the end of the 19th century, the future writer was still a teenager. The stories told about mining, the dangers that lay in wait for miners, the beauty of the bowels and rare stones.
Ancient legends struck the young man's imagination. Thirty years later, he returned to his native place and began to write down the legends that the old people told. Based on the plot motives of folk legends, Bazhov created magnificent works. The writer called them Uralic tales. Later they came out as a separate collection called "The Malachite Box".
main characters
Many children know the fairy tales "The mistress of the Copper Mountain", "The Stone Flower", "The Mountain Master". These pieces are realistic. They describe in detail the life of the Ural mining workers. The images of Stepan, Nastasya, Danila the master, Katya and other characters are developed with deep psychological authenticity. However, fantastic creatures also act in the stories:
- Malakhitnitsa, or the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.
- Great Snake.
- Blue snake.
- Earth cat.
- Silver hoof.
- Grandma Sinyushka.
- Firefighter-jump.
The writer tries to convey not only the true life, but also the living speech of his characters. The prototypes of the characters were people whom Bazhov knew from childhood. Many of them were considered legendary figures of their time. Their names have immortalized folk legends.
Real characters
The prototype of the narrator Ded Slyshko is the watchman Vasily Khmelinin, who introduced the young Bazhov to the Ural legends. The writer knew the former factory worker very well. The watchman interspersed his speech with the word "hey-ko." Hence the nickname.
The prototype of the master, who periodically came to the mines, was the famous businessman Aleksey Turchaninov, who lived during the time of Empresses Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine the Great. It was he who came up with the idea of artistic processing of malachite, which Bazhov talks about in his works.
The famous Russian master Zverev became the prototype of Danila. He was a miner - this was the name of the specialists in the extraction of precious and semiprecious stones. Danila Zverev, like the literary character inspired by him, was distinguished by poor health. For his thinness and short stature, he was called Light. Danila the master Bazhov also has a nickname - Nedokormysh.
Mistress of the Copper Mountain
The fantastic characters of the Ural tales are no less interesting. One of them is the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. A powerful sorceress hides under the appearance of a beautiful black-haired woman in a green dress with a malachite pattern. She is the keeper of the Ural Mountains and mines. Malakhitnitsa helps real professionals and creative people. She freed Stepan from the chains, presented him with his bride Nastya and daughter Tanyushka, taught Danila the secrets of mastery.
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain takes care of her charges and protects them from evil people. She turned the cruel clerk Severyan into a block of stone. The powerful sorceress is shown by the author as an ordinary woman - noble, loving and suffering. She becomes attached to Stepan, but lets him go to the bride.
Great Snake, Grandma Sinyushka and Ognevushka-jump
Bazhov's "Stone Flower" is filled with fantastic images. One of them is the Great Snake. He is the owner of all the gold in the area. The image of a mighty serpent is found in the myths and legends of many peoples. In the Ural tales, the daughters of the Great Snake - Medyanitsa - also appear.
Grandma Sinyushka is a character with multiple origins. She is a "relative" of Baba Yaga from Slavic folklore. Sinyushka is a character on the verge of real and otherworldly worlds. She appears before the human hero in two guises - as a young beauty and as an old woman in blue clothes. There is a similar character in the legends of the Mansi people, who in the old days inhabited the Urals. Grandma Sinyushka is an important image of local folklore. Its appearance is associated with swamp gas, which was observed by miners from afar. A mysterious blue haze awakened the imagination, causing the appearance of a new folklore character.
Bazhov's "Stone Flower" is associated with anthropomorphic fantastic images. One of them is Firefly Jump. This character looks like a cheerful little girl. She dances in the place where there are deposits of gold. The jumping fireball appears unexpectedly in front of the prospectors. Her dance delights those present. Researchers associate this image with the Golden Baba - the ancient deity of the Mansi.
Silver Hoof, Blue Snake and Earth Cat
In addition to fantastic heroes with a human appearance, there are also animal characters in the Ural tales. For example, Silver Hoof. This is the name of one of Bazhov's fairy tales. The Silver Hoof is a magic goat. He knocks precious stones out of the ground. He has one silver hoof. With it he hits the ground, from which emeralds and rubies jump out.
Bazhov's "Stone Flower" is one of the stories in the collection "Malachite Box". Parents often read the tale "The Blue Snake" to their children. In its center is a fantastic character, capable of both bestowing a good person and punishing a villain. The Blue Snake has gold dust on one side and black dust on the other. Where a person is, so his life will go. A blue snake marks a precious metal deposit with gold dust, which is close to the surface.
Another fantastic character of the Ural tales is the Earth Cat. It is associated with the ancient Slavic legend of secret treasures. They were guarded by a cat. In Bazhov's work, this character helps the girl Dunyakha find her way. The cat walks underground. Only her glowing ears can be seen by people above the surface. The real prototype of the image is sulfur dioxide emissions. They often take the shape of a triangle. The sparkling sulfurous gas reminded prospectors of a cat's ears.
Rooted in their native land
Bazhov's "Stone Flower" is included in the collection "Malachite Box", published in 1939. This is a story adapted for children's perception. The collection includes the best works of the writer. The heroes of many fairy tales are related. For example, Tanyushka from the "Malachite Box" is the daughter of Stepan and Nastya (heroes of the "Hostess's Copper Mountain"). And the character of "Fragile Twig" Mityunka is the son of Danila and Katya ("Stone Flower", "Mountain Master"). It is easy to imagine that all the heroes of the Ural tales are neighbors living in the same village. However, their prototypes are clearly from different eras.
"Stone Flower" is a unique work. His characters are so colorful that they have become objects of creative processing more than once. They have beauty and truth. Bazhov's heroes are simple, sincere people who maintain a connection with their native land. In the Ural tales, there are signs of a particular historical era. This is manifested in the description of household utensils, dishes, as well as methods of stone processing, typical for one time or another. Readers are also attracted by the colorful speech of the characters, interspersed with characteristic words and affectionate nicknames.
Creativity and beauty
"Stone Flower" is not only a storehouse of folk characters and bright fantastic images. The heroes of the Ural tales are generous and noble people. Their aspirations are pure. And for this, as always happens in fairy tales, they receive a reward - wealth, family happiness and respect from others.
Many of Bazhov's goodies are creative people. They know how to appreciate beauty and strive for perfection. A striking example is Danila the master. His admiration for the beauty of the stone led to an attempt to create a work of art - a flower-shaped bowl. But the master was dissatisfied with his work. After all, there was no miracle of God's creation in it - a real flower, from which the heart stops and strives upward. In search of perfection, Danila went to the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.
P. P. Bazhov talks about this. "Stone Flower", a brief summary of which schoolchildren need to know, became the basis for a creative understanding of labor. But Danila is ready to forget his skill, to which he made many sacrifices, for the sake of happiness with his beloved Katya.
Experienced artisan and his young apprentice
The tale "Stone Flower" begins with a description of the old master Prokopich. An excellent expert in his field, he turned out to be a poor teacher. The boys, who were brought to Prokopich by the clerk on the order of the master, were beaten and punished by the master. But he could not achieve the result. Perhaps he didn't want to. The writer is silent about the reasons for this. Prokopich returned the next student to the bailiff. All the boys, according to the old master, were unable to comprehend the craft.
P.P.Bazhov writes about the intricacies of working with malachite. The "Stone Flower", a summary of which is presented in the article, is directly related to the intricacies of stone-cutting work. This craft was considered by the people to be unhealthy because of the malachite dust.
And so they brought Danilka Nedokormysh to Prokopich. He was a prominent boy. Tall and well-faced. Yes, only very thin. So they called him Underfeeding. Danila was an orphan. First, they assigned him to the lordly chambers. But a servant did not come out of Danila. He often stared at beautiful things - paintings or jewelry. And as if he had not heard the orders of the lord. Due to poor health, he did not become a miner either.
The hero of Bazhov's tale "The Stone Flower" Danil was distinguished by a strange peculiarity. He could look at some object for a long time, for example, a blade of grass. He also had a lot of patience. The clerk noticed this when the guy silently endured the blows of the whip. Therefore, Danilka was sent to study with Prokopich.
The young master and the pursuit of excellence
The boy's talent manifested itself immediately. The old master became attached to the boy, treated him like a son. Over time, Danila got stronger, became strong and healthy. Prokopich taught him everything that he himself could.
Pavel Bazhov, The Stone Flower and its content are well known in Russia. The turning point in the story comes at the moment when Danila finished his studies and became a real master. He lived in prosperity and peace, but did not feel happy. I wanted to reflect the real beauty of the stone in the product. Once an old malachite man told Danil about a flower that is in the garden of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Since then, the guy did not have peace, even the love of the bride Katya did not please. So he wanted to see the flower.
Once Danila was looking for a suitable stone in the mine. And suddenly the Mistress of the Copper Mountain appeared to him. Began to ask her boyfriend to show a wonderful stone flower. She did not want to, but gave up. When he saw Danil the beautiful stone trees in the magic garden, he realized that he could not create anything like that. The master was sad. And then he completely left home on the eve of the wedding. They could not find him.
What happened next?
Bazhov's story "Stone Flower" ends with an open ending. Nobody knew what happened to the guy. We find the continuation of the story in the story "The Mining Master". Danilov's bride Katya never got married. She moved into the hut to Prokopich, began to look after the old man. Katya decided to study the craft so that she could earn money. When the old master died, the girl began to live alone in his house and sell malachite crafts. She found a wonderful stone in the Serpentine Mine. And there was the entrance to the Copper Mountain. And one day she saw Malakhitnitsa. Katya sensed that Danila was alive. And she demanded to return the groom. It turned out that Danila then ran to the sorceress. He could not live without wonderful beauty. But now he asked Danil the Mistress to let him go. The sorceress agreed. Danila and Katya returned to the village and began to live happily ever after.
Moral of the tale
Children are very interested in reading Bazhov's tales. "Stone Flower" is a talented work. A powerful force (the Mistress of the Copper Mountain) rewarded the gifted master and his faithful bride. Their happiness was not prevented by the gossip of fellow villagers, gossip and rancor. The writer recreated a real folk tradition. It has a place for good magic power and pure human feelings. The idea of the work is difficult for a child's perception. It is difficult for a child to understand why and how beauty can take possession of the human heart.
But still, every student should be introduced to such an author as Bazhov. "Stone Flower" - What Does This Book Teach? A fairy tale has a moral. Kind, sincere and true to their ideals people, despite their mistakes, will be rewarded. The forces of nature, which our ancestors humanized in legends, will take care of this. Bazhov is the only famous writer of Soviet Russia who artistically processed the Ural legends. They are associated with mines, mines, combustible gases, the hard work of serfs, and wonderful treasures that can be extracted directly from the earth.
Danila's obsession
Bazhov writes about this. The Stone Flower, whose main idea is devotion to the family and vocation, speaks in simple and understandable language about great human values. But what about the idea of the destructive power of beauty? Will schoolchildren be able to understand it? Perhaps Danila's obsessive thoughts about the stone flower are caused by the witchcraft of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. But dissatisfaction with his own work appeared before meeting a sorceress.
Analysis of Bazhov's "Stone Flower" does not allow an unambiguous answer to this question. You can interpret the problem in different ways. Much will depend on the age of the child. Better to focus on the positive qualities of the main characters. The pedagogical significance of the work is very great. And the intricate plot, intrigue and the "to be continued" technique will help to attract the child's attention.
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