Ural Mountains’ storyteller
пятница 9 августа 2024, 14:25
 Zausaev A. Singer of the Urals. Pavel Bazhov on Dumnaya Gora (fragment) (1952) |
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The library continues to introduce you to the brands and symbols of the Sverdlovsk region, which create its unique image for tourists and visitors. There are deposits of precious stones in the Urals, because of which the Sverdlovsk region is nicknamed the keeper of gems. Emeralds, amethysts, aquamarine, jasper, rhodonite and malachite can be found in the depths of the mountains. The latter became a symbol of the Urals thanks to the tales of Pavel Bazhov. This year the most famous Ural storyteller celebrates 145 years since his birth. Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian and Soviet writer, folklorist, publicist, author of the famous book of fairy tales "The Malachite Casket", and other tales and essays about the life of the people of the Urals. He was born in the small working town of Sysert, Sverdlovsk region, 50 km from Yekaterinburg. Bazhov was an amazing writer. His work combined two different motifs – the working life of real people and fairy tale events. The Ural storyteller became one of the few writers of the twentieth century, honored with his own encyclopedia. "Bazhov Encyclopedia" is a large-scale publishing project in the study of the life and literary heritage of Bazhov. It contains a chronicle of the life and work of the writer, his genealogy, a dictionary of obsolete and dialectal vocabulary of tales, a huge amount of visual material. Also it covers the new life of the tales’ characters in the cinema and on the theater stage, in painting and graphics, in the work of artists. The “Bazhov Encyclopedia” is available in different departments of the University Library. You can check the edition at Circulation desks and in reading rooms with the help of the Library Catalogue. Author: Olga Mikhalitsyna
Translator: Anastasiia Smorkalova |