Figure-scrap. Bazhov P.P.

We present to your attention the book “Fire-Scrap” Pavel Petrovich Bazhov

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879-1950) was born in the Urals in the factory village of Sysert, in the family of a mining master. He spent his childhood among prospectors and masters who mines and process malachite and mica. After graduating from the spiritual seminary, he taught Russian in Yekaterinburg, traveled a lot around the Urals, collected folk headings, legends and fairy tales. On this material, the famous Bazhov tales were created, works in which truth and fiction are inextricably intertwined.

“Firewood-Poskushka” is a story about a little forest sorceress, which is sometimes to the prospectors by the fire and dance to her dance Indicates the places where the gold is.