Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879-1950) was born in the Urals, in the factory village of Sysert, in the family of a mining master. He spent his childhood among prospectors and craftsmen who mined and processed malachite and mica. After graduating from the theological seminary, he taught Russian in Yekaterinburg, traveled a lot around the Urals, collected folk tales, legends and fairy tales. It was on this material that the famous Bazhov fairy tales were created, works in which truth and fiction are inextricably intertwined. Pavel Bazhov's fairy tale "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" is filled with beauty. And the beauty of nature, and the beauty of a kind of unhurried speech. And, of course, the beauty of human character, the beauty of the treasures of the Urals.