Copper Mountain mistress briefly. "mistress of the copper mountain"

Two of our factory workers came once to look at the grass.

And their mowing was far away. Somewhere behind Severushka.

It was a holiday day, and it was hot - passion. Parun (hot day after rain - Ed.) is clean. And both of them were timid in grief, at Gumeshki, that is. Malachite ore was mined, as well as blue tit. Well, when a kinglet with a coil came in, there was a thread that would fit.

He was a single young guy, unmarried, and his eyes began to turn green. The other one is older. This one is completely shattered (disabled - Ed.). There is green in the eyes, and the cheeks seem to have turned green. And that man kept coughing (constantly - Ed.).

It's good in the forest. The birds sing and rejoice, the earth soars, the spirit is light. Listen, they were exhausted. We reached the Krasnogorsk mine. Iron ore was mined there back then. So our guys lay down on the grass under the rowan tree and immediately fell asleep. Only suddenly the young man, exactly who had pushed him in the side, woke up. He looks, and in front of him, on a pile of ore near a large stone, a woman is sitting. Her back is to the guy, and you can see from her braid that she’s a girl. The braid is gray-black and doesn’t dangle like our girls’, but sticks straight to the back. At the end of the tape are either red or green. They shine through and ring subtly, like sheet copper.

The guy marvels at the scythe, and then he notices further. The girl is small in stature, good-looking and such a cool wheel - she won’t sit still. He will lean forward, look exactly under his feet, then lean back again, bend to one side, to the other. He jumps to his feet, waves his arms, then bends down again. In a word, artut-girl (movable - Ed.). You can hear him babbling something, but in what way he speaks it is unknown, and with whom he speaks is not visible. Just a laugh. It's fun, she can tell.

The guy was about to say a word, when suddenly he was hit on the back of the head.

“My mother, but it’s the Mistress herself! It’s her clothes. How did I not notice right away? She averted her eyes with her scythe.”

And the clothes are truly such that you won’t find anything else in the world. Made of silk, hear me, malachite dress. There is such a variety. It’s a stone, but it’s like silk to the eye, even if you stroke it with your hand.

“Here,” the guy thinks, “that’s trouble! How can I get away with it before I notice.” From the old people, you see, he heard that this Mistress - a malachite woman - loves to play tricks on people.

Just when she thought something like that, she looked back. He looks at the guy cheerfully, bares his teeth and says jokingly:

What are you doing, Stepan Petrovich? girlish beauty Are you staring at nothing? After all, they take money for a look. Come closer. Let's talk a little.

The guy was scared, of course, but he didn’t show it. Attached. Even though she is a secret force, she is still a girl. Well, he’s a guy, which means he’s ashamed to be shy in front of a girl.

“I have no time,” he says, “to talk.” Without that we slept and went to look at the grass. She chuckles and then says:

He will play a tune for you. Go, I say, there’s something to do.

Well, the guy sees that there is nothing to do. I went to her, and she loomed with her hand, go around the ore on the other side. He walked around and saw that there were countless lizards here. And everything, listen, is different. Some, for example, are green, others are blue, which fade into blue, or like clay or sand with gold specks. Some, like glass or mica, shine, while others, like faded grass, and some are again decorated with patterns.

The girl laughs.

“Don’t part,” he says, “my army, Stepan Petrovich.” You are so big and heavy, but they are small for me.

And she clapped her palms together, the lizards ran away, and gave way.

So the guy came closer, stopped, and she clapped her hands again and said, all laughing:

Now you have nowhere to step. If you crush my servant, there will be trouble.

He looked at his feet, and there wasn’t much ground there. All the lizards huddled together in one place, and the floor became patterned under their feet. Stepan looks - fathers, this is copper ore! All sorts and well polished. And there is mica, and blende, and all sorts of glitter that resemble malachite.

Well, now you recognize me, Stepanushko? - asks the malachite girl, and she bursts into laughter. Then, a little later, he says:

Don't be scared. I won't do anything bad to you.

The guy felt sad (offended - Ed.) that the girl was mocking him and even saying such words. He became very angry and even shouted:

Who should I be afraid of, if I am timid in grief!

“Okay,” the malachite girl answers. “That’s exactly what I need, someone who’s not afraid of anyone.” Tomorrow, as you descend the mountain, your factory clerk will be here, you tell him, but make sure you don’t forget the words:

“The owner of Copper Mountain, they say, ordered you, the stuffy goat, to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine. If you still break this iron cap of mine, then I’ll send you all the copper in Gumeshki there, so there’s no way to get it.” She said this and squinted:

Do you understand, Stepanushko? In grief, you say, you are timid, you are not afraid of anyone? So tell the clerk as I ordered, but now go and don’t say anything to the one who is with you. He is a frightened man, why bother him and involve him in this matter. And so she told the blue tit to help him a little.

And she clapped her hands again, and all the lizards ran away.

She also jumped to her feet, grabbed a stone with her hand, jumped up and, like a lizard, also ran along the stone. Instead of arms and legs, its paws were green, its tail stuck out, there was a black stripe halfway down its spine, and its head was human. She ran to the top, looked back and said:

Don’t forget, Stepanushko, as I said. She allegedly told you, the stuffy goat, to get out of Krasnogorka. If you do it my way, I’ll marry you!

The guy even spat in the heat of the moment:

Ugh, what a piece of trash! So that I marry a lizard.

And she sees him spitting and laughs.

Okay,” he shouts, “we’ll talk later.” Maybe you'll think about it?

And immediately over the hill, only a green tail flashed.

The guy was left alone. The mine is quiet. You can only hear someone else snoring behind a pile of ore. Woke him up. They went to their mowing, looked at the grass, returned home in the evening, and Stepan had on his mind: what should he do? To say such words to the clerk is no small matter, but he was also, and it’s true, stuffy - there was some kind of rot in his gut, they say. Not to say, it’s also scary. She is the Mistress. What kind of ore can he throw into the blende? Then do your homework. And worse than that, it’s a shame to show yourself off as a braggart in front of a girl.

I thought and thought and laughed:

I was not, I will do as she ordered. The next morning, as people gathered around the trigger drum, the factory clerk came up. Everyone, of course, took off their hats, remained silent, and Stepan came up and said:

I saw the Mistress of the Copper Mountain last night, and she ordered me to tell you. She tells you, the stuffy goat, to get out of Krasnogorka. If you spoil this iron cap for her, she will dump all the copper on Gumeshki there, so that no one can get it.

The clerk even began to shake his mustache.

What are you? Drunk or crazy? What kind of mistress? Who are you saying these words to? Yes, I will rot you in grief!

“It’s your will,” says Stepan, “and that’s the only way I was told.”

“Flog him,” the clerk shouts, “and take him down the mountain and chain him in the face!” And so as not to die, give him dog oatmeal and ask for lessons without any concessions. Just a little - tear mercilessly.

Well, of course, they flogged the guy and went up the hill. The mine overseer, also not the last dog, took him to the slaughter - it couldn’t be worse. It’s wet here, and there’s no good ore, I should have given up long ago. Here they chained Stepan to a long chain, so that he could work. It is known what time it was - the fortress (serfdom - Ed.). They made fun of the man in every possible way. The warden also says:

Cool off here for a bit. And the lesson will cost you so much pure malachite, - and assigned it completely incongruously.

Nothing to do. As soon as the warden left, Stepan began to wave the hammer (a tool for beating ore - Ed.), but the guy was still agile. He looks, - okay, after all. This is how malachite falls, no matter who throws it with their hands. And the water left somewhere from the face. It became dry.

“Here,” he thinks, “that’s good. Apparently, the Mistress remembered about me.”

I was just thinking, and suddenly there was a light. He looks, and the Mistress is here, in front of him.

Well done, he says, Stepan Petrovich. You can attribute it to honor. Not afraid of the stuffy goat. Well told him. Let's go, apparently, to look at my dowry. I also don’t go back on my word.

And she frowned, it just didn’t feel good for her. She clapped her hands, the lizards came running, the chain was removed from Stepan, and the Mistress gave them the order:

Break the lesson here in half. And so that the selection of malachite is of the silk variety. - Then he says to Stepan: - Well, groom, let's go look at my dowry.

And so let's go. She is in front, Stepan is behind her. Where she goes - everything is open to her. How large the rooms became underground, but their walls were different. Either all green, or yellow with gold specks. Which again have copper flowers. There are also blue ones and azure ones. In a word, it is decorated, which cannot be said. And the dress on her - on the Mistress - changes. One minute it shines like glass, then suddenly it fades, or else it sparkles like a diamond scree, or turns reddish like copper, then again it shimmers like green silk. They're coming, they're coming, she stopped.

And Stepan sees a huge room, and in it there are beds, tables, stools - all made of king copper. The walls are malachite with diamond, and the ceiling is dark red under blackening, and on it there are copper flowers.

“Let’s sit,” he says, “here, and we’ll talk.” They sat down on stools, and the malachite girl asked:

Have you seen my dowry?

“I saw it,” says Stepan.

Well, how about marriage now? But Stepan doesn’t know how to answer. Listen, he had a fiancée. Good girl, one orphan. Well, of course, compared to malachite, how can she compare in beauty! A simple person, an ordinary person. Stepan hesitated and hesitated and said:

Your dowry is fit for a king, but I am a working man, a simple one.

“You,” he says, “are a dear friend, don’t wobble.” Tell me straight, are you marrying me or not? - And she herself completely frowned.

Well, Stepan answered directly:

I can’t, because another one was promised.

He said so and thinks: he’s on fire now. And she seemed happy.

Well done, he says, Stepanushko. I praised you for being a clerk, and for this I will praise you twice as much. You didn’t get enough of my wealth, you didn’t exchange your Nastenka for a stone girl. - And the guy’s fiancee’s name was Nastya. “Here,” he says, “is a gift for your bride,” and hands over a large malachite box.

And there, listen, every woman’s device. Earrings, rings and other things that not even every rich bride has.

“How,” the guy asks, “can I get up to the top with this place?”

Don't be sad about it. Everything will be arranged, and I will free you from the clerk, and you will live comfortably with your young wife, but here’s my story for you - don’t think about me later. This will be my third test for you. Now let's eat a little.

She clapped her hands again, the lizards came running - the table was set full. She fed him good cabbage soup, fish pie, lamb, porridge and other things that are required according to the Russian rite. Then he says:

Well, goodbye, Stepan Petrovich, don’t think about me. - And there are tears right there. She offered this hand, and the tears drip-drop and freeze on her hand like grains. Just a handful. - Here you go, take it for a living. People give a lot of money for these stones. You will be rich,” and he gives it to him.

The stones are cold, but the hand, listen, is hot, as if it were alive, and shakes a little.

Stepan accepted the stones, bowed low and asked:

Where should I go? - And he himself also became gloomy. She pointed with her finger, and a passage opened in front of him, like an adit, and it was light in it, like during the day. Stepan walked along this adit - again he saw enough of all the land riches and came just to his slaughter. He arrived, the adit closed, and everything became as before. The lizard came running, put a chain on his leg, and the box with gifts suddenly became small, Stepan hid it in his bosom. Soon the mine overseer approached. He got along with a laugh, but he sees that Stepan has a lot of tricks on top of the lesson, and the malachite is a selection, a variety of varieties. “What,” he thinks, “is this thing? Where is it from?” He climbed into the face, looked at everything and said:

In this face, anyone will break as much as they like. - And he took Stepan to another face, and put his nephew in this one.

The next day, Stepan began to work, and the malachite just flew off, and even the wren with a coil began to fall, and with his nephew, pray tell, there is nothing good, everything is just a shell (waste rock. - Ed.) and a decoy. coming. It was then that the warden took notice of the matter. He ran to the clerk. Anyway.

Not otherwise, - he says, - Stepan soul evil spirits sold.

The clerk says to this:

It’s his business to whom he sold his soul, but we need to get our own benefit. Promise him that we will release him into the wild, just let him find a malachite block worth a hundred pounds.

The clerk nevertheless ordered Stepan to be unchained and gave the following order - to stop work on Krasnogorka.

Who, he says, knows him? Maybe this fool was talking out of his mind then. And the ore and copper went there, but the cast iron was damaged.

The warden announced to Stepan what was required of him, and he replied:

Who would refuse freedom? I’ll try, but if I find it, that’s my happiness.

Stepan soon found them such a block. They dragged her upstairs. They’re proud, that’s what we are, but they didn’t give Stepan any freedom.

They wrote to the master about the block, and he came from, hey, Sam-Petersburg. He found out how it happened and calls Stepan over.

That’s what,” he says, “I give you my noble word to set you free if you find me such malachite stones that, that means, I can cut out pillars from them that are at least five fathoms long.”

Stepan answers:

I've already been spun around. I am not a scientist. First, write freely, then I will try, and we’ll see what comes out.

The master, of course, screamed, stamped his feet, and Stepan said one thing:

I almost forgot - register my bride’s freedom too, but what kind of order is this - I myself will be free, and my wife will be in the fortress.

The master sees that the guy is not soft. I wrote him a document.

“Here,” he says, “just try to look.”

And Stepan is all his:

This is how he will look for happiness.

Of course, Stepan found it. What does he need if he knew the whole inside of the mountain and the Mistress herself helped him. They cut out the pillars they needed from this malachite, dragged them upstairs, and the master sent them to the butt of the most important church in Sam-Petersburg. And the block that Stepan first found is still in our city, they say. How rare it is to take care of it.

From that time on, Stepan was released, and after that all the wealth in Gumeshki disappeared. There are a lot of blue tits coming, but more of them are snags. It became unheard of about the king with a coil and a rumor, and the malachite left, the water began to fill up (overcome. (Ed.)) So from that time on, the Gumeshki began to decline, and then they were completely flooded. They said that it was the Mistress who was burning for the pillars - the fact that they were placed in the church. And she has no use for it at all.

Stepan also had no happiness in his life. He got married, started a family, furnished the house, everything was as it should be. He should have lived smoothly and been happy, but he became gloomy and deteriorated in health (weakened. (Ed.). So he melted before our eyes.

The sick man came up with the idea of ​​getting a shotgun and got into the habit of hunting. And yet, hey, he goes to the Krasnogorsk mine, but doesn’t bring the spoils home. In the autumn he left and that was the end. Now he’s gone, now he’s gone... Where did he go? They shot it down, of course, people, let's look for it. And hey, hey, he’s lying dead in the mine next to a high stone, he’s smiling evenly, and his little gun is lying to the side, unfired. The people who were the first to come running said that they saw a green lizard near the dead man, and such a big one, the likes of which had never been seen in our area. It’s as if she’s sitting over a dead man, with her head raised, and her tears just falling. As people ran closer, she was on the stone, and that was all they saw. And when they brought the dead man home and began to wash him, they looked: he had one hand tightly clasped, and green grains were barely visible from it. Just a handful. Then one person who knew happened, looked at the grains from the side and said:

Why, this is a copper emerald! A rare stone, dear. There is a whole wealth left for you, Nastasya. Where did he get these stones from?

Nastasya - his wife - explains that the deceased never spoke about any such stones. I gave her the box when I was still a fiance. A large box, malachite. There is a lot of goodness in her, but there are no such stones. I haven't seen it.

Those stones became dead Stepanova I reached out my hands, and they crumbled into dust. They never found out at that time where Stepan got them from. Then we dug around Krasnogorka. Well, ore and ore, brown with a copper sheen. Then someone found out that it was Stepan who had the tears of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. He didn’t sell them to anyone, hey, he kept them secretly from his own people, and he died with them. A?

This means what a Mistress of the Copper Mountain she is! For the bad to meet her is grief, and for the good there is little joy.

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The tale was first published together with two others. - “About the Great Snake” and “Dear Name” - in the collection “Pre-revolutionary folklore in the Urals”, Sverdlovsk regional publishing house, 1936. These tales are closest to the Ural miner folklore. Geographically, they are connected with the ancient Sysertsky mining district, “which,” pointed out P. Bazhov, “included five factories: Sysertsky or Sysert - the main plant of the district, Polevskoy (aka Polevaya or Poleva) - the oldest plant in the district, Seversky (Severna ), Verkhniy (Verkh-Sysertsky), Ilyinsky (Nizhve-Sysertsky).. Near the Polevsky plant there was also the most famous copper deposit of the fortress era of the Urals - the Gumeshki mine, otherwise Copper Mountain, or simply the Mountain With these Gumeshki, which for a century were terrible. underground hard labor for more than one generation of workers, connected most of tales of the Polevsky region" (P. Bazhov, Preface to tales published in the magazine "October", 5-6, 1939, p. 158).

P. Bazhov heard stories about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, about the Great Snake, about the mysterious Gumeshki mine both in his own family and among the factory elders. These were experienced workers who had dedicated their entire lives to the mining industry. In old age, when they had already become worn out, they were transferred from the mines and copper smelting furnaces to easier work (as watchmen, foresters, etc.). They were the tellers of legends about old factories, about the life of miners. The image of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain or Malachite in mining folklore has various options: Mountain womb, Stone girl, Golden woman, Azovka girl, Mountain spirit, Mountain elder, Mountain master - (see P.L. Ermakov, Memoirs of a miner, Sverdlgiz, 1947; L. Potapov. Cult of the mountains in Altai, magazine "Soviet Ethnography" ", e 2, 1946: "Songs and tales of miners", folklore of miners of the Shakhty region, Rostov regional book publishing house, 1940; N. Dyrenkova, Shore folklore, M-L. 1940 A. Misyurev, Legends and were, folklore of old miners of the Southern and Western Siberia; -Novosibirsk, 1940) - All these folk characters are guardians of the riches of the mountain subsoil. P. Bazhov’s image of Malachite is much more complex. The writer embodied in it the beauty of nature, inspiring a person to creative pursuits.

The image of Malachitnitsa from the tales of P. Bazhov is widely included in soviet art. It is recreated on stage, in painting and sculpture. "Images of Bazhov's tales - in the wall paintings of the Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk, the House of Pioneers in Serov, in works of handicraft art, in toys for children" (Vl. Biryukov, Singer of the Urals, newspaper "Red Kurgan", February 1, 1951 T.). Bazhov's tales were recreated by Paleshan artists.

“In the large white-stone Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk there are whole labyrinths of rooms, and there is a lot of interesting stuff in them. But the guys enter one of the rooms with a joyful feeling of expectation of something special, a little mysterious and beautiful. This is the room of Bazhov’s tales. On the high spacious wall she scattered her long braids girl - Zalotoy Volos. Nearby is a green-eyed beauty in a heavy malachite dress of the Copper Mountain Mistress. A mischievous red-haired girl, Ognevushka-Jumping, is dancing on the wall. This is how the room of the master from Palekh was painted" (Pionerskaya Pravda, March 10, 1950)

The tale of “The Mistress of the Copper Mountain” marked the beginning of a whole group of works united by the image of Malachite. This group, in addition to the indicated tale, includes nine more works, including; "Clerk's Soles" (1936), Sochnevy Pebbles" (1937), "Malachite Box" (1938), " Stone Flower"(1938), "Mining Master" (1939), "Two Lizards" (1939), "Fragile Twig" (1940), "Grass West" (1940), "Tayutka's Mirror" (1941).

Representing a collection of ancient legends that circulated among miners.

P. P. Bazhov

The writer was born in the Urals - in the city of Sysert. His father was a mining foreman. Future writer, journalist, publicist and folklorist graduated from a factory school in Sysert. From 10 to 14 years old, the boy studied at a theological school in Yekaterinburg. Then he graduated from seminary in Perm. After receiving his education, he taught Russian. During his summer vacation, he traveled around the Urals and collected folklore.

P. P. Bazhov began writing “Ural Tales” in the 1930s. At first they were published in the magazine. Then a collection of Ural tales was published, which was called “The Malachite Box”. It was published in 1939. The author has updated the book many times.

In 1943, Pavel Petrovich received the Stalin Prize for his work.

"Ural Tales"

Bazhov P. collected “Ural Tales,” as mentioned above, throughout the Urals. He heard many of them from miners as a child. After some time, Pavel Petrovich made an official statement that he composed “Ural Tales” himself. The works are combined into groups that are related to each other common characters. P. Bazhov thought through such a move in order to give his book more integrity. Many tales are interconnected by the place of action.

The most important wonderful character of P. Bazhov's fairy tales is the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. She guards the treasure. The hostess is extraordinarily beautiful and has magical abilities. Only talented stone craftsmen were allowed to descend into her domain. She could help, but she could also destroy.

List of tales included in the collection

The book “Ural Tales” by P. P. Bazhov includes the following works:

• "Mining Master".
• "Vasin's Mountain"
• "Cast Iron Grandmother"
• "Snake trail"
• “A gift from the old mountains.”
• "Diamond Match"
• "The Amethyst Case."
• "Two lizards."
• "Golden Hair"
• "Sunstone".
• "Copper Share"
• "Silk Hill".
• "Blue Snake"
• "Mistress of the Copper Mountain."
• “About the Great Snake.”
• "Tyutka's mirror."
• "Far Peeper"
• "Crystal varnish".
• "Inscription on the Stone."
• "Markov stone".
• "Golden Bloom of the Mountain"
• "The mysterious Tulunkin."
• "At the old mine."
• "Rudy Pass".

And many others.

"Mistress of the Copper Mountain"

This is one of the most significant, well-known and beloved works of the book “Ural Tales” by readers. We offer a brief summary of the contents of this work below.

A young worker named Stepan once saw a girl in the forest - beautiful, with a long braid and wearing clothes made of malachite. He realized that this was the Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself. The girl told him that she had business with him. We need to go to the factory clerk and tell him to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine. The Mistress promised Stepan that she would marry him if he fulfilled her orders. Then she turned into a lizard and ran away. The next morning Stepan went to the clerk and handed over everything that was ordered. For this they flogged him, took him down the mountain, and chained him up. At the same time, they ordered to extract a lot of malachite. The Mistress helped Stepan because he was not afraid to fulfill her order. He mined a lot of malachite. The Mistress showed him her dowry. And then she began to ask if he agreed to take her as his wife. Stepan thought and said that he already had a fiancée. The Mistress praised him for not coveting her wealth. She gave Stepan a box of jewelry for his bride. And then she said that he would live richly, but he must forget her. Soon he got married, built a house, and had children. But he was not happy. Stepan began going into the forest to hunt and every time he looked at the Krasnogorsk mine. Stepan could not forget the Mistress. One day he went into the forest and did not return - he was found dead.

"Malachite Box"

Another very famous work cycle "Ural Tales". Summary“Malachite Box” is presented in this article. This tale is a continuation of the story about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Stepan died, but the malachite box remained with his widow Nastasya. Jewelry was kept in it, given by the Mistress. Only Nastasya didn’t wear them and wanted to sell them. There were many people who wanted to buy the box. But everyone offered a small price. There was another reason why she kept the box with her. Youngest daughter Tatyana loved these decorations very much. Tanyusha grew up and, thanks to a stranger who asked to stay at their house for the night, she learned to embroider with silk and beads. And she was such a craftswoman that she began to earn a lot of money. Soon the master saw the girl and was so struck by her beauty that he invited her to become his wife. She agreed, but set the condition that she would marry him if he showed her the queen in a room made of malachite made by her father. The master promised to fulfill her wish. Finding herself in the queen’s malachite chamber, the girl leaned against the wall and melted. Since then, no one has heard anything about her, they only began to notice that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain began to double.

"Stone Flower"

This work is the last of the series about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, which was created by Pavel Bazhov. "Ural Tales", as is known, include several stories about this amazing beauty. “The Stone Flower” is a story about the orphan Danilka, who at the age of 12 became an apprentice to a malachite master. The boy was talented and the teacher liked him. When Danila grew up, he became an excellent craftsman. He had a dream. He wanted to create a malachite bowl that looked like a flower. I even found a suitable stone. But he just couldn’t cut out a beautiful flower. One day he met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself. He asked her to show him her stone flower. The Mistress tried to dissuade him from this, but he insisted. He saw the flower of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and from then on he completely lost peace. Then he broke his unfinished bowl and left. He was never seen again, but there were rumors that he was serving with the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

"Silver Hoof"

P. P. Bazhov wrote “Ural Tales” for children, but they are also interesting for adults. One of the stories that appeals to readers of all ages is “The Silver Hoof.” Lonely old man Kokovanya sheltered an orphan. Grandfather worked every day, and his granddaughter put things in order in the hut and cooked. In the evenings, Kokovanya told the girl fairy tales. And one day he told her about a magic goat with silver hoof with which he knocks, and precious stones appear in that place. Once a girl was waiting for her grandfather from hunting and saw through the window that her cat was playing with the same goat from the fairy tale. She ran out to look at him. And the goat jumped onto the roof, began to beat with his hoof, and precious stones fell from under his feet. Grandfather and granddaughter collected them and lived comfortably for the rest of their lives.

"Sinyushkin Well"

The book “Ural Tales” includes the story of the good fellow Ilya. He was left an orphan early. The only inheritance he received was a sieve full of feathers from Lukerya’s grandmother, who instructed her grandson not to pursue riches. One day Ilya decided to take a short route to the mine. And this path lay through the swamp. Ilya felt thirsty. He looks, and in the swamp there is an area with clean water like a well. He decided to drink this water, lay down on the ground, and from the water Sinyushka stretched out her hands to him. He managed to overcome her charms, he stood up and spat on her hand. And she began to tease him that he would not be able to drink water from her well. Ilya promised Sinyushka that he would return and left.

The fellow kept his promise. Ilya returned, tied the ladle to a perch and used it to scoop up water from the well. Sinyushka was amazed at his ingenuity and promised to show her wealth. Ilya came to the well again. And girls come up to him with trays full of jewelry. He remembered that his grandmother had punished him and began to refuse everything. An eighteen-year-old beauty approached him with a sieve containing berries and feathers. Ilya realized that this was Sinyushka. He took the sieve from her hands. When I came home, the berries turned into gems. Ilya began to live richly, but he could not forget Sinyushka. One day he met a girl very similar to her, and he married her.

This tale is about the fact that the main riches in life are not gold and gems. Sinyushkin's well is a test that only those who do not envy, are not greedy and remember advice can pass.

"Jumping Firefly"

The book that Bazhov P. wrote - “Ural Tales” - includes a story about a gold mine. One day the men were sitting by the fire, and with them was the boy Fedyunka. And suddenly they saw red-haired girl who jumped out of the fire. She danced, and then stopped near a pine tree and stamped her foot. According to legend, this is how she indicated the place where gold should be looked for. Only she deceived this time - there was nothing under the pine tree. Soon Fedyunka saw Jumping again. This time she showed him the right place. The boy found gold and lived comfortably for 5 years. The people heard about it, and everyone rushed to that mine for gold. People were coming there from all directions. But the gold disappeared there because of this.

One day two workers went to look at the grass in their fields. It was a holiday, the weather was good, hot. These people worked at the factory, mining malachite and other stones. The work was hard and harmful. One guy was very young, unmarried. But the work had already taken its toll on his health, “his eyes were starting to look green.” The other one was older. He was sick, exhausted, coughing heavily. It was very nice in the forest, the birds were singing. The men were a little tired and lay down on the grass to rest. Somehow, unnoticed, they fell asleep. The young guy suddenly woke up and saw a girl sitting on the rocks. He noticed that her braid seemed to be stuck to her back. There were amazing ribbons on the spit, either red or green. They sparkled, tinkled and shimmered. The girl was short, nice, and fast. The guy realized that it was the Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself. After all, she was wearing clothes made of silk malachite. She said that she wanted to talk to him. She called the guy by name - Stepan Petrovich. The guy was scared, but didn’t show it. He said that he had no time to talk, he was in a hurry to look at the grass. The girl laughed at him. Then she said that she had business with him. The guy had no choice but to approach her. When he began to approach it, he saw that the place was full of lizards. They were all colorful. The girl laughed and asked Stepan Petrovich not to accidentally crush the lizard. At the same time, she clapped her hands, and there was no free space left around the guy. There were only lizards. The girl laughed and laughed at Stepan, and then told him not to be afraid; She promised that she would not do anything bad to him. The guy was offended that they were laughing at him. And he said that he was not afraid of anything or anyone. The Mistress liked it. And she said: “I just need someone like him, someone who is not afraid of anyone. Tomorrow, as you descend the mountain, your factory clerk will be here, you tell him yes, look, don’t forget the words: “The owner of Copper Mountain ordered you, a stuffy goat, to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine. If you still break this iron cap of mine, I’ll dump all the copper in Gumeshki there for you, so there’s no way to get it.” The hostess told Stepan not to say anything to his friend, because he was an elderly, tired and sick man. After this, the Mistress herself turned into a lizard. At parting, she said that if Stepan did as she ordered, she would marry him. And she ran away. Stepan’s friend woke up, they went to look at the grass, then returned home. Stepan kept thinking about what he should do. After all, it was dangerous to say such words to the clerk. But it was impossible not to say. After all, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain could be offended by him. And he decided to do as she told him. The next day, when the clerk approached,... A gentleman came from St. Petersburg and promised Stepan to set him free if he found huge malachite stones so that large pillars could be made from them. Stepan replied that he had already been deceived once. And now he agrees to try only if he is given his freedom first. Master Only later did someone find out that these were the tears of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. He kept them all his life. Apparently, Stepan was never able to forget the Mistress, as she told him, he remembered her all his life. It turned out that the meeting with the sorceress did not bring anything good to Stepan. “Here she is, then, what kind of Mistress of the Copper Mountain is she! For the bad to meet her is grief, and for the good there is little joy.” The reality of the work lies in how truthfully the fate of mining workers during the era of serfdom is shown. Fantasy is the image of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, a powerful and fair sorceress. Main character, a worker named Stepan, is shown to be an honest, hardworking, conscientious and talented man. Such qualities have always evoked admiration and respect among the people. Stepan strives for perfect mastery and worked tirelessly. And with this he earned the approval of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain..

Very briefly, a young serf meets the mythical Mistress of the Copper Mountain, thanks to her he gets his freedom, but does not find happiness and peace. At the end, the hero is found dead under strange circumstances.

One day two workers went to the distant mowing to look at the grass. Both of them mined malachite in the mountain. The older worker was “completely ruined”, and the younger one, Stepan, “had already begun to have a green cast in his eyes.”

As soon as the workers got to the mowing, they were starved to death in the hot sun. They lay down on the grass and fell asleep. Suddenly Stepan woke up, “exactly who pushed him in the side.” He sees a girl sitting on a stone with her back to him, and her black braid is not dangling like other girls’, but seems to be stuck to her back. She is a good-looking girl, small in stature and as lively as mercury.

Stepan wanted to talk to the girl, but suddenly noticed that her dress was made of rare silk malachite. The guy realized that the Mistress herself was in front of him copper mountain, and became timid.

From the old people, you see, he heard that this Mistress - a malachite woman - loves to play tricks on people.

As soon as Stepan thought so, the Mistress looked around, grinned and called to talk. The guy was scared, but didn’t show it - “even though she’s a secret force, she’s still a girl,” it’s a shame for a guy to be shy in front of a girl.

Stepan came up, and the Mistress asked him not to be scared. The guy got angry: he works in grief, should he be afraid of the Mistress? Malachite liked his courage, and she gave Stepan an assignment. He must tell his clerk that he, the “stuffy goat,” gets out of the mine and doesn’t break her iron cap. If the clerk disobeys, then the Mistress will lower all the copper so that you won’t find it.

Having said this, the Mistress jumped up and ran across the stone like a green lizard with a human head. Stepan became numb, and the lizard turned around and shouted that she would marry him if he fulfilled her order. The guy spat in the heat of the moment - “so that I marry a lizard” - the Mistress heard, burst out laughing and disappeared behind the hill.

Stepan thought. It’s not easy to say this to the clerk, and it’s scary not to say it, because the Mistress can punish you, instead of good ore, plant a decoy, and you don’t want to show yourself off as a braggart in front of the girl.

The next morning, Stepan approached the clerk and conveyed to him the words of the Mistress. The clerk got angry and ordered the guy to be chained in the face, fed empty oatmeal and flogged mercilessly. The mine supervisor assigned Stepan the worst face - “it’s wet here, and there’s no good ore.” And he ordered to obtain a completely incongruous amount of pure malachite.

It is known what time it was, the fortress. They made fun of the person in every possible way.

Stepan began to swing the pickaxe. He looks - the work is going well, the finest malachite is pouring out from under the pickaxe, and the face has become dry. The guy thought that it was the Mistress who was helping him. Then Malachite herself appeared and praised Stepan for his courage. The lizards came running, removed the guy’s shackles, and the Mistress took him to look at the dowry. Stepan saw all the riches of the Ural Mountains.

Then the Mistress brought him to her richest chamber with walls made of malachite and asked if he was ready to marry her. Stepan hesitated and admitted that he had a fiancée. The guy thought that Malachite would be angry, but she seemed happy.

Well done, he says, Stepanushko. I praised you for being a clerk, and for this I will praise you twice as much. You didn’t get enough of my wealth, you didn’t exchange your Nastenka for a stone girl.

The Mistress gave Stepanova's bride a large malachite box with rich women's attire, promised from the clerk that she would rescue him and arrange a comfortable life, and in the end she ordered not to think about her anymore.

The lizards came running, the table was set, Stepan was fed deliciously. The Mistress says goodbye to the guy, and tears start to fall and freeze like grains in her hand. Malachite collected a full handful of these grains and gave them to Stepan “for living” - big money they are standing.

The stones are cold, but the hand, listen, is hot, as if it were alive, and is shaking a little.

The guy returned to the mine, and there the Mistress’s servants had already mined a double amount of malachite. The warden was surprised, he transferred Stepan to another face, and he had work going on there too. The warden decided that Stepan had sold his soul to evil spirits, and reported everything to the clerk. He didn’t show that he was scared, but he stopped breaking the Mistress’s iron hat.

The clerk ordered Stepan to be unchained and promised freedom if he found “a malachite block worth a hundred pounds.” Stepan found such a block, but did not get his free one. They reported the discovery to the master. He came “from, hear me, Sam-Petersburg” and again promised Stepan his freedom if he found such malachite stones that they would make “pillars no less than five fathoms long.” The guy did not believe the master’s “honest noble word” and forced him to sign the freedom certificate in advance for both himself and his bride.

Stepan soon found suitable stones.

What does he need if he knew the whole inside of the mountain and the Mistress herself helped him.

The pillars cut from this malachite were placed in main church St. Petersburg. Since then, the malachite has disappeared from the mine - apparently the Mistress was angry that her church was decorated with malachite.

Stepan received his freedom, got married, set up a house and farm, but happiness never came to him. Stepan walked around looking gloomy, and his health had become worse - he was melting before our eyes. He got himself a shotgun and started going hunting, all to the place where he first met the Mistress. I didn’t carry out her last order - I couldn’t forget.

One day Stepan did not return from hunting. We went to look and found him dead, and nearby we noticed a green lizard - sitting over the dead man and crying. When they brought Stepan home, they noticed green grains in his fist. Knowledgeable person looked and said that it was a copper emerald, a rare and expensive stone. They began to take it out of Stepanova’s handful, but it took it and crumbled into dust.

Then they realized that these pebbles were the tears of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Stepan didn’t sell them, he kept them as souvenirs. Here she is, Malachite, “for the bad to meet her is grief, and for the good there is little joy.”

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov - famous writer, his greatest merit is that he is a pioneer in the literary treatment of Ural tales. One of the results of this work is his work “Mistress of the Copper Mountain”. The summary will introduce the reader to this interesting tale.

Brief biography of the author, history of the creation of the tale

To better understand a work, you need to know at least a little about its creator. Pyotr Bazhov was born on the 15th, and according to the old style on January 27, 1879. His father was a mining master and probably told his son about his work, about the valuable stones that are found in rocks. Thus, arousing the child’s interest in this topic.

The future writer’s excellent style was facilitated by the fact that he studied very well, and subsequently worked as a teacher of the Russian language in theological schools of Kamyshev and Yekaterinburg.

Then the Mistress of the Copper Mountain says to Stepan: “You need to tell the factory clerk to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine, otherwise it will be bad.” She clapped her hands, the ore turned into lizards again, and then the girl herself did too. She ran to the top of the mountain and from there shouted to the guy that if he said as she asked, he would marry him.

Stepan fulfills the Mistress’s order, what came of it

The guy is thinking about what to do now. I decided to do as the girl asked. The next day, at the factory (where he worked) he approached the clerk and conveyed what the Mistress of the Copper Mountain had ordered. He was amazed at such audacity, did not believe Stepan and ordered him to be whipped. They chained the young man to a long chain and ordered him to work in the face.

They gave the guy a task - to extract a lot of malachite and assigned him to an unpromising adit, where expensive stones are almost never found. It was also wet and damp there. So that Stepan would not die of hunger, the boss ordered to give him a bowl of dog oatmeal.

So the young man would have been in these terrible conditions if the Mistress of the Copper Mountain had not come to his rescue.

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A new acquaintance helped the young man, she drained the adit, and then came to him herself. The mistress ordered her faithful assistant servants to extract malachite twice as much as Stepan was ordered, and she took him to her palace to show the dowry.

Mansions under the mountain

Like this interesting story, based on ancient stories, was invented by P.P. Bazhov. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain took the guy to her palace. There seem to be large rooms located underground. The walls are cast different colors, like the girl's dress. It changed just before our eyes. At first it looked like it was made of malachite, then it began to look like glass. After that it was covered

The guest and hostess entered a very spacious room. There is a bed, a table, and stools. They sat down, the girl asked, how about marriage now. After all, she promised to give her hand and heart if the guy conveyed her words to the clerk. But the young man could not marry the Mistress. He told her that he had a fiancée, the orphan Nastya. Bazhov talks about this further. The mistress of Copper Mountain seemed to be glad that Stepan did not exchange his Nastenka for her - the stone girl.

For this, the girl rewarded him and gave him a box with rings and earrings for the bride. Then the Mistress fed him and showed him the way back.

Stones

The young man returned to the adit, and there the lizards had already stored a lot of malachite for him. They adjusted the chain again, as if the guy had never gone anywhere. The clerk was amazed when he saw how much malachite Stepan had mined, gave this adit to his nephew, and sent the young man to a bad slaughterhouse. But even there the guy managed to get a lot of malachite, because a magical girl invisibly helped him.

Then they ordered Stepan to find a huge block of malachite and promised freedom for this. After all, back then it was still serfdom. The guy found a block, but they didn’t give him freedom. The master heard about everything, came, gave the guy his word of honor as a nobleman to grant him freedom if he found malachite stones from which pillars could be cut out at least five fathoms long. The young man said that he would try to get some, but first let the master write a free letter to him and his bride Nastya. That's what we decided

How the story ended

Styopa found this wealth, of course, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain helped him invisibly.

The story ends on a not very happy note. Nastenka and Stepan received their freedom and got married. A young man built a house, it seemed everything was fine, but Stepan Petrovich became sad and melted right before our eyes.

He took his gun and went hunting. But his path invariably led to Red Mountain, and the man returned from the hunt empty-handed. One day in the fall he left and never returned. They began to search and found a lifeless man in the mine, he lay motionless and seemed to be smiling.

Someone said that he saw a very large one next to him. Most likely, it was the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

The meeting with the magical girl did not bring happiness to Stepan. It is not for nothing that in the last lines the author says that if bad person If he meets her, it will be woe to him, and there will be little joy from this for the good. This ends both the story and summary works.

If you listen to reviews of this story, it will become clear what is hidden behind the image main character. She turned into a lizard, since this is the reptile that is mentioned in the folk tales of that area. They also say that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain is imprinted folk image the goddess Venus, her sign was branded on field copper in the 18th century.

Readers like this story about a simple, honest, brave Stepan, who was not greedy and calculating, like a clerk or a master. The unusual speech of the characters, expressions, folk words. You can also learn about this from reader reviews.