Intimate legends about buried treasures and gems burning with witchcraft fire, tales about Danil the Master and the Mistress of the Copper Mountain - attractive, seductive, generous, but at the same time deadly... Perhaps all this is just the imagination of the talented storyteller Pavel Bazhov? The author of this book, Valery Nikitich Demin, is convinced of the opposite: the legends of the Urals - the priceless heritage of the Russian land - are rooted in the deepest, Hyperborean antiquity. The book, discovered in the archives of the writer and philosopher, is being published for the first time.