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- Stone Flower
Author: Pavel Bazhov
Year of writing: 1937
Genre: fairy tale
Main characters: master Prokopich, student, orphan Danilka Nedokormish.
Plot:
One day, an old malachite carver had a talented student. The old man rejoiced at his abilities, the clerk rejoiced at the impeccably completed work, and the master began to trust him with the most expensive orders. The young master would live and live, but he became sad and often went uphill. I kept looking for an extraordinary stone flower in order to comprehend the very essence of beauty and harmony. He achieved his goal - he met the Mistress of the mountain, and saw a stone flower. To your own detriment.
The meaning of the story . The story tells about a talented young master Danil, who perfectly mastered the craft of a malachite carver, but this was not enough for him. His soul yearned for unique knowledge, for the sake of which he abandoned ordinary earthly life.
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Brief summary of Bazhov Stone Flower
The old master Prokopich did not need students, and he dismissed them all, considering them unsuitable for the malachite business. But one day they assigned him a boy who quickly showed amazing talent and ingenuity. The meeting with Prokopyich was a happy turn in fate for Danilka: in him he found both a generous teacher and a caring father.
Danilka had everything: ability, hard work, universal recognition of his skill, and even fame. He lived a calm and satisfying life; he had all the necessary tools and the best stone for his work. He got himself a good girl, Katerina, as his wife. But he was not happy.
Any completed work seemed to him insufficiently virtuosic, uninspiring, unreal. He believed that there was something in the world that would allow him to one day live out his dream. These thoughts of his were spurred on by the gloomy stories of the villagers about the existence of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and the unknown Stone Flower. Danilko really wanted to look at this flower in order to reproduce it in stone.
He began to disappear from home more and more often. Fellow villagers constantly saw him in the fields, then in the meadows, then near the abandoned mine near Zmeinaya Gorka. They began to say that the boy had gone crazy, and they were not far from the truth. Some kind of obsession was directly guiding Danilka. It was as if he was looking for a treasure inaccessible to others. And the mistress of the Copper Mountain always keeps an eye on such people, and she began to give the master tips. But the better his work became with her help, the more he began to yearn for an unattainable ideal.
No precautions helped. Even the Mistress's own warnings did not stop him. She showed the master a stone flower. And he could not resist this craving. On the night before his marriage, he smashed his best work with a hammer (now he saw all its shortcomings) and disappeared in an unknown direction...
Sometimes work and beauty captivate a person.
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The clerk sent the orphan Danilka Nedomysh to study with Prokopich, a malachite carver. Boys had been sent to the master as apprentices before, but he refused to teach them - either he did not want to reveal the secrets of his skill, or he considered them incapable. He liked Danilko, as he immediately saw the beauty of the stone. In order for the weak boy to get better, Prokopich gave him a lot of freedom, but the clerk, having learned about this, began to give him tasks for stone products.
The master decided to determine Danilka’s skill level and ordered a bowl with a foot to be cut out of malachite. The master was pleased with it and sent a drawing according to which Danilko was supposed to make another bowl with a very complex pattern. Danilka did not like this kind of work - she had to process the stone strictly according to the drawing, without taking into account the beauty of a particular malachite sample. Because of this, there is no true beauty in the product.
Then the young master decided to carve another bowl in addition to this one, in the shape of a flower, and so that the beauty of the stone would be visible in it. Thoughts about this work haunted him, and Prokopich decided to marry him so that the nonsense would fly out of his head. And Danilko himself has already made an agreement with Katya Letemina that they will get married after fulfilling the master’s order.
The finished bowl, made according to the drawing, was approved by other craftsmen, but Danilko did not see beauty in it. He heard from the old master himself that he who sees the beauty of a stone will understand the beauty of a stone flower. Such a person will end up as a mountain master with the Mistress and will live in the mountain. The guy really wanted to look at that stone flower.
When before the wedding he went to Snake Hill to look for suitable malachite, the Mistress appeared to him. Danila asked to show the stone flower, but she began to dissuade him, since he would have no other joy than true mastery, and his old life would be completely disliked. She reminded me of Prokopyich, the bride, but the guy stubbornly asked to see the flower. The Mistress took Danila to her garden of gems, where he saw wonderful stone flowers.
Danilo returned home not himself. He broke the bowl he was making in the shape of a flower and ran out of the house. Since then no one has seen him. They said that he, having lost his mind, disappeared in the forest. Others were convinced that Danilo had become the Mistress's mining master.
Stone Flower
Master Prokopich, the first in malachite in those places, lived in one of the Ural factories. The master was already elderly, so the master ordered a student to be assigned to him. But Prokopich’s science wasn’t going well, “everything he does is just a push and a poke.” He'll give the boy bumps all over his head, cut off his ears, and send him back - he's not capable of science, they say.
Local boys began to be afraid of Prokopich, and the parents did not want to send their child to torture. This is how it came to Danilka the Underfed. This twelve-year-old boy was an orphan - he didn’t remember his mother, and he didn’t know his father at all. Danilka’s face was clean and handsome, so they took him as a “Cossack” to the master’s house. Here it would be necessary to curl up like a vine, and the boy would stare at some decoration and freeze in the corner.
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They considered Danilka a “blessed slow-moving” and sent him to the shepherd. But even here his work did not work out. The old shepherd will fall asleep, Danilka will daydream, and the cows will scatter. Once we lost several cows, one of them was the clerk's.
The reprisal then, we know what it was like. For any guilt, show your back.
First they flogged the old shepherd, and then they began to take care of the frail Danilka. The executioner hit him lightly at first. Danilka clenched his teeth and remained silent. Then the executioner got angry and began to beat with all his might. The boy fell asleep without uttering a sound.
The local healer grandmother came to see Danilka. From her the boy learned about the stone flower. This flower grows at the Mistress’s place in the malachite mountain, “it has full power for the snake festival.” If a person sees that flower, he will be unhappy all his life, and the grandmother did not know why.
Soon Danilka was on his feet. The clerk noticed this and assigned him as a student to Prokopich: the boy is an orphan, teach as you want, no one will intercede. Danilka’s eye turned out to be correct. On the very first day, he pointed out the mistake to the foreman.
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Prokopich lived alone, his wife died, he had no children, so the master became attached to the orphan. Working with malachite is harmful, stone dust quickly clogs the lungs, so the master decided to fatten up the thin and frail Danilka first, and then get down to science. He assigned the boy to the farm and began to give him tasks - whether it was work or fun.
Prokopich was a serf, but he was allowed to work for himself, “on quitrent,” so the master had his own income. He took Danilka for his son and bought him good clothes and boots. The master had not yet allowed him near his craft, but Danilka himself asked Prokopyich and remembered everything.
Soon the clerk became interested: whose little boy was he lazing around all day? I decided to check what the master had managed to teach him. It turned out that in the meantime Danilka had managed to learn a lot of wisdom. From that day on, Danilushka’s comfortable life ended, and the clerk began giving him work.
After all, they - the malachite workers - are in a messy business. It’s just a trivial thing, but how long has he been sitting on it!
Danila grew up doing this work. He worked quickly, but Prokopich taught him not to rush and impressed upon the clerk that Danilka was a slow mover. In his free time, the boy even learned to read and write. Over time, Danila became a prominent guy - tall, ruddy, curly and cheerful, “in a word, girlish dryness.”
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When Danila carved a “snake sleeve from a solid stone,” the clerk recognized him as a master and wrote about him to the master. He decided to test the new master, ordered to carve a bowl from malachite, sent the drawing and ordered him to make sure that Prokopyich did not help Danila.
The clerk placed Danilo in his place. At first the guy tried to work slowly, but then he got bored, so he carved the bowl in one fell swoop. The clerk ordered him to carve two more bowls of the same type. It turned out that Danila made three bowls in the time that the master gave for one.
The clerk realized that Prokopich was leading him by the nose, got angry and described everything to the master. The same one “turned everything the other way around” - he assigned Danila a small rent and did not order him to take it from Prokopich, hoping that the two of them would come up with something new. The master attached a drawing of an intricate bowl to the letter, ordered him to make the same one, and set an unlimited time limit.
Danila set to work, but he didn’t like the bowl - there was no beauty in it, just curls. With the clerk’s permission, Danila decided to carve another bowl according to his own idea.
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Danila the master became pensive, sad, his face fell asleep, he kept walking through the meadows, looking for a flower so that he could make his own cup in its likeness and show all the beauty of the stone. He chose the Datura flower for the bowl, but first decided to complete the master’s order.
Prokopich dissuaded him, then decided to marry him, hoping that after the wedding all the nonsense would come out of his head. Danila admitted that his neighbor Katya had been waiting for him for a long time. Finally, Danila carved the master's bowl and organized a celebration for the occasion, inviting the bride and old masters. One old man, Prokopia’s teacher, told the guy that those who manage to see a stone flower comprehend all the beauty of the stone and forever end up with the Mistress as mountain masters.
Danila lost peace, forgot about the wedding - he so wanted to understand the beauty of the stone. One day he went to look for malachite for his dope cup, and a voice told him: go to Snake Mountain. Then a woman flashed in front of Danila and disappeared. The guy went to Snake Mountain, found what he was looking for, set to work, but his cup didn’t come out, there was no life in it.
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Danila realized that he himself was unable to capture the beauty of the stone, and decided to get married. The wedding took place “just around the Snake Festival.” Danila came to Snake Hill for the last time, sat down to rest, and then the Mistress appeared to him. The guy recognized her by her beauty and malachite dress. He asked the Mistress to show him the stone flower. She tried to dissuade him: those who see the flower lose the joy of life and return to it themselves. But Danila did not back down. The Mistress took him to her garden with trees and grass made of different stones and led him to black, velvet-like bushes.
On these bushes there are large green malachite bells and in each there is an antimony star. The fire bees sparkle above those flowers, and the stars tinkle subtly and sing smoothly.
Danila the master looked at the stone flower, and the Mistress sent him home.
That day Katya the bride had a party. At first Danila was having fun with everyone, and then he became sad. Returning home after the party, Danil broke his dope cup, spat into the master’s cup and ran out of the hut.
They searched for Danila for a long time. Some believed that he had gone crazy and died in the forest, while others said that the Mistress took Danila as a mountain foreman.
A summary of the work “Stone Flower” can be read below
There was a master at the plant who worked with malachite, Prokopich. The master ordered to give him students, but no one approached the master.
There lived an orphan named Danilka Nedokormish in the factory. He was assigned to various jobs, but he couldn’t do it: he kept thinking about something and looking at everything. Only he played the horn very well.
Danilka started playing once when he was grazing cows with a shepherd, and several cows disappeared. For this they flogged the shepherd grandfather and Danilka. But the boy never cried out. His grandmother Vikhorikha was leaving him.
Danilka asked his grandmother about all the herbs and flowers. She told about a stone flower that brings misfortune.
Danilka was sent to study with Prokopich. At first the master didn’t like him, but then he saw talent in the boy.
Prokopyich began to raise Danilka as a son. To begin with, I decided to fatten him up, and then teach him the business.
The clerk at the pond saw Danilka, didn’t recognize him, then got angry that he wasn’t studying, but Danilka answered all the questions about the case.
Soon Danilka began to work like a master. He felt sorry for Prokopichego, and he felt sorry for the guy.
The master ordered a complex bowl to be made. Danilka didn’t like that the pattern was complex, but without beauty - he began to come up with his own pattern, and did not sleep for nights and days.
Prokopich decided to marry Danilka. The guy said that he would marry Katya Letemina when he came up with his own cup.
Danila finished the ordered bowl. All the masters praised it, but Danila didn’t like it: there was no beauty. The oldest master agreed with him, but warned him not to think about it so as not to end up with the Mistress of the Mountain, and also told him about the stone flower.
Danila continued to look everywhere for a stone for his cup. In the mines, some woman suggested going to Snake Hill. I found a stone there.
Danila started working and forgot about the wedding.
I made a bowl like with real flowers, but he still didn’t like it - he decided to have a wedding.
Danila went to Snake Hill again, met the Mistress of the Mountain, and begged her to show her the stone flower.
Danil saw a flower, and the hostess said that if he had come up with the flower himself, she would have given him any stone, but now she won’t.
Since then, Danila stopped living normally: he kept thinking about the flower. As a result, he left home and disappeared.
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The meaning of Pavel Bazhov's story “The Stone Flower”
“The Stone Flower” by Pavel Bazhov is a very complex fairy tale.
Whatever you say, the fairy tale genre confidently maintains its position in world literature. But at the same time, this is one of those layers of human creativity that, over the course of time, has undergone perhaps the greatest changes.
Today, fairy tales have a very specific task: to teach children kindness, compassion, tolerance for other people, care - the best qualities that a person can muster. As for the fairy tales of yesteryear, everything is not so clear...
What does Bazhov’s work teach, which in style is more similar to the fables of an old grandfather who decided to embellish his youth?
The story does not protect the young reader from the ugly truth: in the settlement next to the malachite quarries, in which the main character Danila was born and raised, serfdom flourished with all its might. Even a child, not to mention an adult, could be subjected to cruel punishment with a whip. The reader learns about the current state of things little by little, but at the same time, serfdom is one of the omnipotent forces of the story, a kind of antagonist who appears in the person of the Clerk.
The clerk managed the settlement, making sure that each resident benefited his owner, who at that time lived far from the quarries and enjoyed only the fruits of the labors of his serfs.
The clerk had full control over the fate of the talented stone carver, and he was free to ruin Danila’s creative streak with tasteless tasks, monotonous work and far-fetched quibbles.
And on the other side of this gray, hopeless life stood... the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. The unknown, natural, unshakable power of the stone with which Danila worked. Although in the fairy tale she appears as a beautiful woman, the Mistress carries within herself the image of nature itself, which is almost impossible to fully comprehend. The mistress can bestow wealth and knowledge, but at the same time she is capricious and can destroy a careless person.
The whole problem with Master Danila was that he himself turned out to be willful and freedom-loving, and also talented and inquisitive enough to, despite everything, try to comprehend the secret of the Mistress of the Copper Mountain. The desire to make a stone flower of unprecedented beauty became for Danila an opportunity to surpass himself, and also to escape from the tight shackles of the Clerk. Even a strong-willed person can break under the weight of circumstances, but from a young age they tried to “drive Danila into a vice”: first with boring, monotonous work, and then with lordly whims, which did not allow Danila’s talent to reveal its full potential.
The young master became absorbed in himself. The desire to create something so beautiful that it would elevate his talent above everyday problems captured Danila’s mind. Even his marriage to a good and kind girl Katya, who in this work became the personification of all the people who surrounded Danila, did not save him.
In the throes of creativity, the young master breaks away from people. He forgets about those close to him who need him and support him. Danila leaves them to be torn apart by reality with its Clerk, bondage and constant work. And in the end, the uncontrollable passion to achieve perfection dries up Danila’s soul and almost drives him crazy.
Instead of trying to resist evil in reality, the main character of the fairy tale chose to flee, although Bazhov presented this as leaving the world in search of himself and an unattainable ideal.
The fairy tale “The Stone Flower” has a very childish meaning: while striving for perfection, do not cut off all ties with people, do not burn bridges behind you, do not try to escape from real difficulties here and now. Because in the pursuit of perfection, you may end up with a broken malachite cup, and there is no one around who can support you.
