Bazhov "Mistress of the Copper Mountain": a summary for the reader's diary

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov is a famous writer, his greatest merit is that he is a pioneer in the literary processing of Ural tales. One of the results of this work is his work "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain". A brief summary will introduce the reader to this most interesting tale.

Brief biography of the author, the history of the creation of the tale

To better understand the work, you need to know at least a little about its creator. Pyotr Bazhov was born on the 15th, and according to the old style on January 27, 1879. His father was a mining master and probably told his son about his work, about the valuable stones that are found in rocks. Thus, arousing the child's interest in this topic.

The excellent style of the future writer was facilitated by the fact that he studied very well, and later worked as a teacher of the Russian language in the religious schools of Kamyshev and Yekaterinburg.

Then the Mistress of the Copper Mountain says to Stepan: "We need to tell the factory clerk to get out of the Krasnogorsk mine, otherwise it will be bad." She clapped her hands, the ore turned into lizards again, and then the girl herself turned into too. She ran up to the top of the mountain and from there she shouts to the guy that if he says as she asks, she will marry him.

Stepan fulfills the order of the Mistress, what came of it

The guy thinks about what to do now. Decided to do as the girl asked. The next day, he approached the clerk at the factory (where he worked) and conveyed what the Mistress of the Copper Mountain had ordered. He was amazed at such impudence, did not believe Stepan and ordered him to be whipped. They chained the young man to a long chain and ordered him to work in the mine.

They gave the guy a task - to get a lot of malachite and assigned him to an unpromising adit, where almost no expensive stones come across. It was still wet and damp. So that Stepan would not die of hunger, the chief ordered to give him a bowl of dog porridge.

So the young man would have been in these terrible conditions if the Mistress had not come to his rescue of the Copper Mountain.

• summary;
• Bazhov P.P.;
• title of the work;
• the main characters.

Recall that these items must be filled in the reader's diary. In the column "main characters" write down "Stepan" and "Mistress of the Copper Mountain".

A new friend helped the young man, she drained the adit, and then appeared to him herself. The hostess ordered her faithful assistant servants to get 2 times more malachite than Stepan was ordered, and she herself took him to her palace to show the dowry.

Mansions under the mountain

Here is such an interesting story, based on ancient stories, invented by P.P. Bazhov. The mistress of the Copper Mountain took the guy to her chamber. Under the ground, as if large rooms are located. The walls are cast in different colors, like the girl's dress. It was changing right before our eyes. At first it was as if made of malachite, then it began to be molded with glass. After that it covered

The guest and hostess entered a very spacious room. There is a bed, a table, stools. They sat down, the girl asked, how about marriage now. After all, she promised to give her hand and heart if the guy conveys her words to the clerk. But the young man could not marry the Mistress. He told the one that he had a fiancee - the orphan Nastya. Bazhov tells about this further. The mistress of the Copper Mountain seemed to be glad that Stepan did not exchange his Nastenka for her - a stone girl.

For that, the girl rewarded him, gave him a box with rings and earrings for the bride. Then the Mistress fed him and showed him the way back.

stones

The young man returned back to the adit, and there the lizards had already stored up a lot of malachite for him. They fixed the chain again, as if the guy had never gone anywhere. The clerk was amazed when he saw how much Stepan mined malachite, gave this adit to his nephew, and sent the young man to a bad face. But even there the guy managed to get a lot of malachite, because a magical girl invisibly helped him.

Then they ordered Stepan to find a huge block of malachite and promised freedom for this. After all, then there was still serfdom. The guy found a block, but they did not give him the will. The master heard about everything, came, gave the guy an honest word of nobility to give him freedom if he finds malachite stones, from which poles no less than five fathoms long can be cut down. The young man said that he would try to get such, but first let the master write free to him and his bride Nastya. That's what they decided

How did the story end

Styopa found this wealth, of course, helped him invisibly Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

The story ends on a not very happy note. Nastenka and Stepan got their freedom and got married. A young man built a house, it seems everything was fine, but Stepan Petrovich became sad, melted right before his eyes.

He took a gun and went hunting. But his path invariably lay to the Red Mountain, and from the hunt the man returned empty-handed. Somehow, also in the fall, he left and did not return. They began to search, found an inanimate in the mine, he lay motionless and seemed to be smiling.

Someone said that next to him he saw a very large one. Most likely, it was the Mistress of the Copper Mountain.

The meeting with a magical girl did not bring happiness to Stepan. Not without reason, in the last lines, the author says that if a bad person meets her, there will be grief for him, and there is little joy from this. This ends both the tale and the summary of the work.

If you listen to the reviews about this story, it will become clear what is hidden behind the image of the main character. She turned into a lizard, since it is this reptile that is mentioned in the folk tales of that area. They also say that the folk image of the goddess Venus is imprinted in the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, field copper was branded with her sign in the 18th century.

Readers like this story about a simple, honest, brave Stepan, who was not greedy and prudent, like a clerk or a gentleman. Unusual speech of heroes, expressions, folk words are interesting. This can also be found in reader reviews.