Biography Bazhov for children

The biography page Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was born and lived his life in the Urals. His childhood passed in the town of Syserti and at the Polevsky Plant, near Yekaterinburg. His father at that time was a mining master, his mother was a skilled lace. Paul early began to recognize himself as a responsible member of the family: to go fishing to “get to the ear, or even two”, go to the forest - bring berries and mushrooms.

The future writer received education thanks to the assistance of the veterinarian N. Smorodintsev, who persuaded his parents to send the boy to study. P. Bazhov studied at the Yekaterinburg Theological School, and then at the Perm Seminary. These educational institutions usually belittled the children of the clergy, but sometimes made an exception for the "worldly" ones. After graduating from the seminary in the year, Paul dreamed of continuing his education at the university, but due to political unreliability he was denied admission to Tomsk University.

At the age of twenty, Bazhov began working as a teacher of Russian language and literature, first in the deaf village of Shaidurich, and then in Yekaterinburg and Kamyshlov.

In the summer months, he traveled a lot around the Urals, looked at the surrounding life, talked with the workers, wrote down their well -aimed words, conversations, stories. The rich reserve of life impressions, samples of folk speech helped him in the future in writing. From the beginning of the revolution, he went to work of public organizations, volunteered in the Red Army in the year, took part in military operations on the Ural Front.

In the years, Bazhov lived in Sverdlovsk and worked in the editorial office of the "peasant newspaper", speaking on its pages with essays on the old factory life, about the civil war. In the year, one of the magazines published his first tales. Their success prompted Bazhov to continue work. So he found himself as a writer. In the year, Bazhov’s most famous work was published - a collection of fairy tales "Malachite box", for which the writer received the State Prize.

Subsequently, Bazhov replenished this book with new stories. During the Patriotic War, Bazhov takes care not only of the Sverdlovsk writers, but also about the writers evacuated from different cities of the Union. Bazhov was awarded the Order of Lenin. After the war, the writer's eyesight began to weaken sharply, but he continued editorial work, and collecting, and creative use of folklore.

In the year, Bazhov was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council. In early December, P. Bazhov died in Moscow. He was buried in Yekaterinburg. Interesting facts: on the year of the writer, the P. Bazhov Award was established, which was annually awarded to writers in Yekaterinburg for works on the Urals in five nominations: “prose”, “poetry”, “dramaturgy”, “literary criticism” and “journalism”.

The first presentation of the literary prize, dedicated to the birthday of P. Bazhov, took place on January 30 in the Hall of the Chamber Theater in Yekaterinburg. Especially for this solemn event, gold and silver medals were cast. Images from P. Bazhov’s tales “Stone Flower” and “Mistress of the Copper Mountain” in the form of a green stone flower with a crowned gold yellow lizard are depicted on the coat of arms of the city of Polevskaya Sverdlovsk region, with the environs of which many tales are associated.

According to P. Bazhov, several films and cartoons were shot, the ballet “Tale of the Stone Flower” by S. Prokofiev was created, plays in the plots of his tales are playing the theaters, in Moscow there is a “Stone Flower” fountain, and monuments were erected to the writer.