The Malachite Box or The Malachite Casket is a book of fairy tales and folk tales of the Ural region of Russia compiled by Pavel Bazhov and published from 1936 to 1945. It is written in contemporary l
Title page of the 1st edition of The Malachite Box (as a single volume), 1939
The cover of the 1947 French edition of The Malachite Box
The stamps of Russia, 27 January 2004. The illustrations are (from left to right): "The Stone Flower" (Danilo and the Mistress of the Copper Mountain), "The Malachite Casket" (the Mistress and Tanyushka), "Golden Hair" (the hunter Ailyp and his ladylove Golden Hair).
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary being of the Ural miners, said to be the Mistress of the Ural Mountains of Russia. A character of Slavic mythology
The Malachite Box
…Tayutka's Mirror" (1941), "Ivanko Krylatko" (1943), "That Spark of Life" (1943) are popular. The characters of the Ural Mountains folklore such as the Mistress of the Copper Mountain became very well known after their appearance in Pavel Bazhov's The Malachite Box. In the 1930s the Communist Party of the Soviet Union greatly encouraged…
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain and Tanyushka