Russian storyteller Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879–1950) was born and raised in the Urals. From year to year in the summer he traveled around his native places, and in the Ural region there is hardly a corner where this miner of oral speech gold and seeker of native legends has not visited. Everywhere he met interesting people, listened about life and delved into everything. The storyteller worked day and night. And unfading stone flowers bloomed on the white sheets, good and evil monsters, blue snakes, nimble lizards and cheerful goats came to life. Researchers of P.P. Bazhov’s work call “The Malachite Box” the writer’s main book. The writer himself said: “I would like this recording from memory to at least weakly reflect the spontaneity and amazing power with which the tales heard at the guardhouse on Dumnaya Mountain were full.” In total, P.P. Bazhov created 56 tales, here is one of them, included in the “Collected Works in Three Volumes. Volume two."