Bazhov Encyclopedia. Blazes V.V.

Personal and work of Pavel Petrovich Bazhov are so significant that both the writer himself and the tales created by him from the “Malachite box” have long been perceived by a certain symbol of the mining Urals - his relics, greatness, beauty. The Bazhov Encyclopedia is the first large -scale publishing project in the study of life and literary heritage P.P. Bazhova, who gives the most complete set of modern information about his biography and works, about folklore, historical and literary roots of his fairy-tale prose, about the new life of the characters of the latter in cinema and on the theater stage, in painting and graphics, in the work of artists of decorative and applied art. The thematic connection of the works about the keepers of the Ural mineral treasures-the mistress of the Copper Mountain, the Golden Planned, the firewall, and others-with the development of the industry of the region, with the flora and fauna of the Bazhovskiy places.