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 Urals there is hardly a corner where this miner of oral speech gold and the seeker of native legends has not been. Everywhere he knew interesting people, he listened to life and delved into everything. The storyteller worked day and night. And unfading stone flowers bloomed on 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 main book of the writer. The writer himself said: “I would like this entry from memory to at least to a slight extent reflect the immediacy and amazing power with which the tales heard at the guardhouse on Dumnaya Hill were full.”Total P.P. Bazhov created 56 tales, here is one of them, included in the collection "Malachite Box".