Biography of Bazhovs stories

Pavel Bazhov - unknown about the famous. We get acquainted with his work as a child, reading the novel "Green Mare", "Far-Shchelo". But Bazhov’s most famous book is the Ural tales from the Malachite Casket. These are special works, which are a past with elements of a fairy tale, magic, transmitted by a beautiful folk language. Tales from the Malachite Casket, like the rest of the author’s books are not only entertaining stories, but also deeply moral works, permeated with folk wisdom.

Childhood the writer was born in Sysert on January 15. His father, Pyotr Vasilievich, was a mining master, worked in the Pudling-Svarian workshop. His surname was Bazhev, subsequently due to the error in the documents, its ending changed. Despite her father's high professionalism, the family lived in constant need. Pyotr Vasilievich suffered from alcohol dependence, was inanimate, often left without work.

In difficult periods, the family helped her mother, she was an excellent needlewoman, she knew how to earn money with this. The future writer spent the childhood in Sysert and in the Polevsky factory. For three years, he studied at the Systema Zemstvo School, where he was among the best students. From 10 to 14 years old, a capable teenager studied at the Yekaterinburg Theological School.

It was difficult for parents to pay for him, so they transferred Paul to the Perm Theological Seminary, where training was cheaper.

But the young man was not going to become a priest, he was attracted by pedagogical activity. Pavel Bazhov in his youth, a young literature teacher taught for a long time at a rural school, then got a job as a Russian language teacher at the Yekaterinburg Diocesan Women's School. Here he worked for six years. Pavel Petrovich's students loved a young teacher very much.

There was an interesting tradition at the school - during literary evenings, reward readers with colored bows. Bazhov has always received the largest number of these cute prizes. During the summer holidays, Pavel Petrovich traveled around the surrounding villages, collected dialectisms, folklore, proverbs and sayings. For some time, Bazhov was a teacher of the Theological School in Kamyshlov.

Pavel Petrovich was an ardent revolutionary. There was a time when he was in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, but then joined the Bolsheviks. During the Civil War he conducted active activity, established Soviet power in Russia, in Kazakhstan. He was the organizer of the underground in Ust-Kamenogorsk, prepared his comrades for underground activities in case of the transition of the village under the power of the White Guards.

When the city was captured by white rebels, Bazhov was inactive for six months to save his life. Subsequently, he was a lot of reproached for this, but the forces of underground at the end of the years were not enough for an armed uprising, and Bazhov perfectly understood this. Six months later, he resumed activities, united several partisan detachments into a single shock.

After the restoration of Soviet power in Ust-Kamenogorsk, he became the organizer of the new Sovdep. With his direct participation, the prepared uprising of the White Guards was suppressed, the leader of which was a trump card. In the second half of the year, Bazhov was the head of the food detachment, a special authorized by the district food committee, the head of the public education committee.

Last post, Bazhov became the organizer of the teacher's courses and the Likbez. He was engaged in the restoration of the Ridder mine, resolved other important issues related to the work of the national economy. During this period, denunciations began to arrive at Bazhov, he was accused of long inaction during a coup in Ust-Kamenogorsk. Pavel Petrovich returned to the Urals.

Dinuses pursued him for 15 years, Bazhov was excluded twice from the party, but both times were restored a year later. He was accused of "attributing party experience." In Kamyshlov, Bazhov was engaged in literary activities, worked in the Ural Regional Peasant Gazeta. He was the head of the editorial committee on writing books on the construction of the Krasnokamsk Paper Plant, the history of the Kamyshlovsky regiment.

The works were not published, their heroes fell under repression. Pavel Bazhov in the creative process Bazhov’s book “Uralsky” was the light of the year. After 12 years, the writer published the first fairy tale - "Girl to Azovka." At the beginning of the 10ths of the last century, Soviet folklorers received an important task, they needed to collect the "collective farm and industrial" folklore.

The historian Vladimir Biryukov was in difficulty, he did not find working folklore in the Urals. The historian was helped by Bazhov, who wrote three tsenians specifically for him, which his grandfather heard in childhood. However, no grandfather had a audience, Bazhov himself came up with fairy tales. But these beautiful Ural legends were so reliable and good that they were printed already in the year.

So the Soviet people met the book "Malachite Casket". Four years later, the writer for his work received the Stalin Prize of the 2nd degree.The book was struck by everything - a unique language telling about the beauty of the Urals and its wealth, the introduction of magic into an ordinary narrative. Short Ural legends in the retelling of Bazhov are magnificent, these are small masterpieces of a brilliant author.

They were read and read by adults and children with great pleasure. Comerator people in Bazhov’s tales look like real Russian heroes, powerful, proud, wise. In his works, the writer covers a large period of time - from serfdom to modernity. Tales from the Malachite Casket were translated into many languages ​​of the world. It was not easy for the translators, a kind of language of the tales of many of them was confused.

They noted that these short works are practically indistinguishable due to their cultural and linguistic features. Since the year of Bazhov’s tales, they were included in the list of “Books” recommended by Russian schoolchildren for independent reading. In total, he wrote 56 tales, calling them either “mountain stories”, then stories, then legends. At first, the writer called Khmelinin by the author of his tales, but later he removed this surname from all the drafts.

The writer wrote most of the tales at the most difficult time for his family - when he was once again expelled from the party and refused to hire. The large family then survived at the expense of their garden and modest salary of a relative, sister of the wife of a writer who worked as a librarian. They also helped them out a cow, which was looked after by the wife, Valentina Aleksandrovna.

And Bazhov himself during this period of forced idleness had time for creativity, and he successfully used it. The author wrote all his works in a house standing on the corner of Chapaev and Bolshakov streets. He used to live on Bolotnaya Bolshakov Street, but the old house died in a conflagration. The building on Chapaeva Street 11 began to erect in the year. Before leaving for Kamyshlov, the writer's family lived in it for three years.

After the return of Bazhov from Kazakhstan, he again settled in his house and lived here until death. There are four rooms in the house, the writer’s office simultaneously served as a adultery for a married couple. One side of the house looks at the garden, planted by the hands of the huts. Apple trees, cherries, mountain ash, bird cherries, birch and linden grow in it.

The writer especially loved a bench under the mountain ash, where he often rested in the summer heat. The table under the linden, where he often worked, has also been preserved. They may be familiar.