Summary of the story: stone flower of the Bazhs. Encyclopedia of fairy-tale heroes: "Stone Flower"

To the question what is the brief content of the stone flower Bazhov P. P.? given by the author Caucasian the best answer is A tale about an orphan, whom the malachite master took as an apprentice. The orphan had a gift; he could quickly complete tasks. And Master Danila wanted to make the stone alive. But he can't do it. Once I heard a legend about the Mistress of the Copper Mountain, who has a stone flower, as if alive, and goes straight to her, without hesitation, so that she shows him this flower. And when I saw him, I completely lost sleep... In the end, Danila disappeared in an unknown direction... The tale ends like this: “Whoever said that he made up his mind died in the forest, and who again said: “The mistress took him to mining masters. In reality, it turned out differently. There will be a story about that later. "...))
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An orphan boy, Danilushka, ends up with the master of malachite works, Prokopiech. Danilushka grew up with him, became prettier, changed and became a master. He had a fiancee. And one fine day they asked him, Danilushka, to make a malachite box, he had a drawing, but he did not see any beauty. Then he went into the forest to pick flowers, and there he met the mistress of the copper mountain, she gave him a stone. So he sat and made it, and all the passers-by said that there was nowhere more beautiful than this box. But the boy still couldn’t finish it. And then he took it and broke it. And he disappeared.

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Once upon a time there lived a malachite craftsman, Prokopich. He was a good master, but already older. Then the master decided that the master should pass on his craft further and ordered the clerk to find him an apprentice. No matter how much the clerk brought the boys, they did not suit Prokopich. Until one day the clerk brought in the 12-year-old orphan Danilka, the Underfed One. The boy was assigned to Prokopich only because there was no use for him anywhere, and if Prokopich accidentally knocked him down, then there would be no one to ask for him. From the very first day the boy amazed the old master.
Approaching the machine with the malachite stone, Danilko immediately showed the master how best to use the stone so that the pattern would fit better on the product. Prokopich realized that the young man would be useful and decided to teach him his skills. One day the clerk found Danilko at the pond, well-fed, healthy and well dressed, and did not immediately recognize him, but soon realized that this was the same orphan.
The clerk and the master decided to test his skills by giving him the task of making a bowl. Danilko made three bowls in the allotted time and then the master allowed Prokopich and Danilka to take as much malachite as they wanted and make any crafts. Danilko grew up, became an excellent craftsman and betrothed Natasha, but postponed the wedding until he created a bowl imitating the datura herb with a flower. Danilko found a suitable stone and made the base of the bowl, but when he reached the flower, the bowl lost its beauty. Danilko kept walking through the forests, looking for inspiration and the stone flower that Grandma Vikhorka told him about as a child. Natasha already began to cry, afraid to be a bride forever, and then Danilko decided to get married. We planned a wedding. Danilko, during his next walk near Zmeinaya Gorka, met the owner of Mednaya Mountain, about whom he had heard legends since childhood, about her stone garden, about the best craftsmen working for her. Although she tried to dissuade Danilko, he insisted, and the hostess showed him her stone garden and the flower that he had dreamed of seeing all his life.
Returning home, Danilko went to his bride’s party, but happiness and fun left him, he now dreamed only of a stone flower. Late in the evening Danilko came home and while Prokopich was sleeping, he broke his unfinished dope bowl and left. People began to say that he was now working as a master for the mistress of Copper Mountain.

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Before breaking his cup, Danilko met the Mistress of the Copper Mountain and she reluctantly showed him a stone flower, otherwise many write that he simply broke the cup and disappeared. Read more carefully!

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Danilushka Nedokomysh is an orphan, a dreamy boy ends up with Prokopiech (a master of malachite), grew up with him, became prettier, and became a master. He had a fiancee - Katya. Once they asked him (Danila) to make a malachite bowl, they gave him a drawing, but he “doesn’t see the beauty in it.” He went through the forest to look for flowers and blades of grass, met the Mistress of the Mountain, who then threw him a stone for a bowl. Danilka sits making his bowl, everyone walks around, saying that there is nothing more beautiful, but he sits and cannot finish everything. One night he got up and broke his malachite cup, ran out into the street and disappeared.

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The marble workers were not the only ones who were famous for their stone work. In our factories, too, they say, they had this skill. The only difference is that ours were more fond of malachite, as there was enough of it, and the grade is no higher. It was from this that malachite was suitably made. Hey, these are the kind of things that make you wonder how they helped him.

There was a master Prokopich at that time. First on these matters. No one could do it better. I was in my old age.

So the master ordered the clerk to put the boys under this Prokopich for training.

Let them go over everything down to the finer points.

Only Prokopich - either he was sorry to part with his skill, or something else - taught very poorly. Everything he does is a jerk and a poke. He puts lumps all over the boy's head, almost cuts off his ears, and says to the clerk:

This one is no good... His eye is incapable, his hand cannot carry it. It won't do any good.

The clerk, apparently, was ordered to please Prokopich.

It’s not good, it’s not good... We’ll give you another... - And he’ll dress up another boy.

The kids heard about this science... They roar early in the morning, trying not to get to Prokopich. Fathers and mothers, too, do not like to give away their own child for wasted flour - they began to protect their own as best they could. And to say that, this skill is unhealthy, with malachite. The poison is pure. That's why people are protected.

The clerk still remembers the master’s order - he assigns disciples to Prokopich. He will wash the boy in his own way and hand him back to the clerk.

This is no good... The clerk began to get angry:

How long will this last? No good, no good, when will it be good? Teach this...

Prokopich, know yours:

What do I... Even if I teach for ten years, this kid will be of no use...

What else do you want?

Even though you don’t put it on me at all, I don’t miss it...

So the clerk and Prokopich went through a lot of kids, but the point was the same: there were bumps on the head, and in the head there was a way to escape. They spoiled them on purpose so that Prokopich would drive them away. This is how it came to Danilka the Underfed. This little boy was an orphan. Probably twelve years then, or even more. He is tall on his feet, and thin, thin, which is what keeps his soul going. Well, his face is clean. Curly hair, blue eyes. At first they took him as a Cossack servant at the manor's house: give him a snuff box, give him a handkerchief, run somewhere, and so on. Only this orphan did not have the talent for such a task. Other boys climb like vines in such and such places. A little something - to the hood: what do you order? And this Danilko will hide in a corner, stare at some painting, or even at a piece of jewelry, and just stand there. They shout at him, but he doesn’t even listen. They beat me, of course, at first, then they waved their hand:

Some blessed one! Slug! Such a good servant will not make.

They still didn’t give me a job in a factory or up a mountain - the place was very runny, there wasn’t enough for a week. The clerk put him in assistant grazing. And here Danilko didn’t fare well. The little guy is extremely diligent, but he always makes mistakes. Everyone seems to be thinking about something. He stares at a blade of grass, and the cows are over there! The old gentle shepherd was caught, felt sorry for the orphan, and at the same time he cursed:

What will come of you, Danilko? You will destroy yourself, and you will also put my old back in harm’s way. Where is this good? What are you even thinking about?

I myself, grandpa, don’t know... So... about nothing... I stared a little. A bug was crawling along a leaf. She herself is blue, and from under her wings she has a yellowish look peeking out, and the leaf is wide... Along the edges the teeth, like frills, are curved. Here it looks darker, but the middle is very green, they just painted it exactly... And the bug is crawling...

Well, aren't you a fool, Danilko? Is it your job to sort out insects? She crawls and crawls, but your job is to look after the cows. Look at me, get this nonsense out of your head, or I’ll tell the clerk!

Danilushka was given one thing. He learned to play the horn - what an old man! Purely based on music. In the evening, when the cows are brought in, the women ask:

Play a song, Danilushko.

He will start playing. And the songs are all unfamiliar. Either the forest is noisy, or the stream is murmuring, the birds are calling to each other in all sorts of voices, but it turns out well. Women began to greet Danilushka a lot for those songs. Whoever will mend a thread, whoever will cut a piece of canvas, who will sew a new shirt. There is no talk about a piece - everyone strives to give more and sweeter. The old shepherd also liked Danilushkov’s songs. Only here, too, something went a little wrong. Danilushko will start playing and forget everything, even if there are no cows. It was during this game that trouble befell him.

Danilushko, apparently, began to play, and the old man dozed off a little. They lost a few cows. As they began to gather for the pasture, they looked - one was gone, the other was gone. They rushed to look, but where are you? They grazed near Yelnichnaya... This is a very wolf-like place, desolate... They only found one little cow. They drove the herd home... So and so - they talked about it. Well, they also ran from the factory - they went looking for him, but they didn’t find him.

The reprisal then, we know what it was like. For any guilt, show your back. Unfortunately, there was another cow from the clerk's yard. Don't expect any descent here. First they stretched the old man, then it came to Danilushka, but he was skinny and scrawny. The Lord's executioner even made a slip of the tongue.

“Someone,” he says, “will fall asleep in one go, or even lose his soul altogether.”

He hit anyway - he didn’t regret it, but Danilushko is silent. His executioner suddenly in a row is silent, the third is silent. The executioner then became enraged, let’s go bald from all over the shoulder, and he himself shouted:

What a patient man he was! Now I know where to put him if he remains alive.

Danilushko took a rest. Grandma Vikhorikha stood him up. There was, they say, an old lady like that. Instead of a doctor in our factories, she was very famous. I knew the power in herbs: some from teeth, some from stress, some from aches... Well, everything is as it is. I myself collected those herbs at the very time when which herb had full strength. From such herbs and roots I prepared tinctures, boiled decoctions and mixed them with ointments.

Danilushka had a good life with this grandmother Vikhorikha. The old lady, hey, is affectionate and talkative, and she has dried herbs and roots and all sorts of flowers hung all over the hut. Danilushko is curious about herbs - what’s the name of this one? where does it grow? what flower? The old lady tells him.

Once Danilushko asks:

Do you, grandma, know every flower in our area?

“I won’t brag,” he says, “but I seem to know everything about how open they are.”

But, he asks, “are there things that haven’t been opened yet?”

There are, - he answers, - and such. Have you heard Papor? It's like she's blooming

The day of Ivan. That flower is witchcraft. The treasures are opened to them. Harmful for humans. On the gap-grass the flower is a running light. Catch him - and all the gates are open for you. Vorovskoy is a flower. And then there is also a stone flower. It seems to be growing in the malachite mountain. On the snake holiday it has full power. The unfortunate person is the one who sees the stone flower.

Why, grandma, are you unhappy?

And this, child, I myself don’t know. That's what they told me. Danilushko

Vikhorihi might have lived longer, but the clerk’s messengers noticed that the boy began to go a little, and now to the clerk. The clerk called Danilushka and said:

Now go to Prokopich and learn the malachite trade. The job is right for you.

Well, what will you do? Danilushko went, but he himself was still being shaken by the wind. Prokopich looked at him and said:

This was still missing. The studies here are beyond the ability of healthy boys, but what you get is enough to make you barely worth living.

Prokopich went to the clerk:

There is no need for this. If you accidentally kill, you will have to answer.

Only the clerk - where are you going - didn’t listen;

It’s given to you - teach, don’t argue! He - this guy - is strong. Don't look how thin it is.

Well, it’s up to you,” says Prokopyich, “it would have been said.” I will teach, as long as they don’t force me to answer.

There is no one to pull. This guy is lonely, do whatever you want with him,” the clerk replies.

Prokopich came home, and Danilushko was standing near the machine, looking at the malachite board. A cut has been made on this board - break off the edge. Here Danilushko is staring at this place and shaking his little head. Prokopich became curious about what this new guy was looking at here. He asked sternly how things were done according to his rule:

What are you? Who asked you to pick up a craft? What are you looking at here? Danilushko answers:

In my opinion, grandfather, this is not the side where the edge should be cut. See, the pattern is here, and they’ll cut it off. Prokopich shouted, of course:

What? Who are you? Master? It didn’t happen to my hands, but are you judging? What can you understand?

“Then I understand that this thing has been ruined,” Danilushko answers.

Who spoiled it? A? It’s you, brat, to me, the first master!.. Yes, I’ll show you such damage... you won’t live!

He made some noise and shouted, but didn’t hit Danilushka with his finger. Prokopich, you see, was thinking about this board himself - which side to cut off the edge from. Danilushko hit the nail on the head with his conversation. Prokopich shouted and said very kindly:

Well, you, revealed master, show me how to do it your way?

Danilushko began to show and tell:

That would be the pattern that would come out. And it would be better to put a narrower board, beat off the edge in an open field, just leave a small braid on top.

Prokopich, know, shouts:

Well, well... Of course! You understand a lot. I've saved up - don't wake up! - And he thinks to himself: “The boy is right. This will probably do some good. But how can I teach him? Knock him once and he’ll stretch his legs.”

I thought so and asked:

What kind of scientist are you?

Danilushko told about himself. Say, an orphan. I don’t remember my mother, and I don’t even know who my father was. They call him Danilka Nedokormish, but I don’t know what his father’s middle name and nickname are. He told how he was in the household and why he was driven away, how he spent the summer walking with a herd of cows, how he got caught in a fight. Prokopich regretted:

It’s not sweet, I see you, guy, have a hard time with your life, and then you came to me.

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.

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...

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Once upon a time there lived a malachite craftsman, Prokopich. He was a good master, but already older. Then the master decided that the master should pass on his craft further and ordered the clerk to find him an apprentice. No matter how much the clerk brought the boys, they did not suit Prokopich. Until one day the clerk brought in the 12-year-old orphan Danilka, the Underfed One. The boy was assigned to Prokopich only because there was no use for him anywhere, and if Prokopich accidentally knocked him down, then there would be no one to ask for him. From the very first day the boy amazed the old master.

Approaching the machine with the malachite stone, Danilko immediately showed the master how best to use the stone so that the pattern would fit better on the product. Prokopich realized that the young man would be useful and decided to teach him his skills. One day the clerk found Danilko at the pond, well-fed, healthy and well dressed, and did not immediately recognize him, but soon realized that this was the same orphan.

The clerk and the master decided to test his skills by giving him the task of making a bowl. Danilko made three bowls in the allotted time and then the master allowed Prokopich and Danilka to take as much malachite as they wanted and make any crafts. Danilko grew up, became an excellent craftsman and betrothed Natasha, but postponed the wedding until he created a bowl imitating the datura herb with a flower. Danilko found a suitable stone and made the base of the bowl, but when he reached the flower, the bowl lost its beauty. Danilko kept walking through the forests, looking for inspiration and the stone flower that Grandma Vikhorka told him about as a child. Natasha already began to cry, afraid to be a bride forever, and then Danilko decided to get married. We planned a wedding. Danilko, during his next walk near Zmeinaya Gorka, met the owner of Mednaya Mountain, about whom he had heard legends since childhood, about her stone garden, about the best craftsmen working for her. Although she tried to dissuade Danilko, he insisted, and the hostess showed him her stone garden and the flower that he had dreamed of seeing all his life.

Returning home, Danilko went to his bride’s party, but happiness and fun left him, he now dreamed only of a stone flower. Late in the evening Danilko came home and while Prokopich was sleeping, he broke his unfinished dope bowl and left. People began to say that he was now working as a master for the mistress of Copper Mountain.

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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.

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.

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 giving 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.”

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 it to be taken from Prokopyich, 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.

It’s not us who said: to criticize someone else’s things requires a little wisdom, but to come up with your own, you’ll be turning from side to side for more than one night.

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.

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 evenly.

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.