Short biography of Bazhov

He became famous as the author of fairy tales based on the Ural folklore. Born on January 27 of the year in the village of Sysersk Plant near Yekaterinburg. His father Petr Bazhov worked at mountain factories, his mother led the household, sewed and woveed lace. Children's years took place in the small city of Polevsky of the Sverdlovsk region. He studied at a factory school, where he was one of the best students of the class.

After graduating from the spiritual school in Yekaterinburg, he entered the theological seminary of Perm. Having completed his studies in the year, he began to work as a Russian language teacher. The first writing activity of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov fell on the years of the Civil War. It was then that he began to work as a journalist, later carried away by the history of the Urals.

However, the biography of Pavel Bazhov is more known as a folklorist. Since the year, Pavel Bazhov worked in Sverdlovsk by the editor of the "peasant newspaper". He dismantled readers' letters, collected material for future works, wrote essays about old factories. In the year, Bazhov’s book entitled “The Urals were. From the recent life of Syurt factories. ” In X Bazhov began to collect folklore.

On trips, he turned to the “factory old people” - as the prose writer called people who worked in factories for several decades. In the year, Bazhov’s book “Malachite Casket” was published, which brought the writer world fame. This collection includes works about the mistress of the Copper Mountain, Danila Mastera and other characters. In these stories, Bazhov connected fairy tales with a description of the real life of the miners, which was familiar to him since childhood.

One of the main fairy -tale images in the work of the writer is the mistress of the Copper Mountain, or the Malachite. The cycle about it includes ten tales, including the “Stone Flower”, “Mountain Master”, “Herbal West”. This heroine is the spirit of the Ural mountains, the keeper of valuable minerals. In some of the tales, the story is fictional, grandfather's audience.

Its prototype was the guard of the factory warehouse Vasily Khmelinin, who told Bazhov a lot of stories. During the Great Patriotic War, Bazhov continued to go to remote working villages, met with local old -timers, studied the history of mountain factories, the life of masters. Bazhov collected the sayings - expressions in the speech that were used for decoration or jokes, as well as pables and sayings.

At the same time, Bazhov edited books on local history and newspapers, created essays and novels. In the year, the story “Far - Close” about the history of Sverdlovsk - modern Yekaterinburg was published. This autobiographical work tells about the big city how the little boy first saw him. Bazhov was also the editor of the Almanac "Ural Contemporary". Pavel Bazhov created many works on the basis of which ballets, operas, performances, films and cartoons were staged.

In the year the film "Stone Flower" was released. Based on the tales, drawn and puppet cartoons appeared: “Sinyushkin well”, “Silver hoove” and others.