A story about a malachite box. Pavel bazhov - malachite box

Malachite box (Tale)

With Nastasya, Stepanova's widow, the Malachitov's box remained. With every feminine device. Rings there, earrings and protchas according to the female rite. The Mistress herself Copper Mountain gave Stepan this box, as he was still going to marry.

Nastasya grew up in orphanhood, was not used to some kind of wealth, and it was not a mistake to be a fashion lover. From the first years, when we lived with Stepan, I put on, of course, from this box. Only not to the soul she had. He will put on a ring ... Exactly just right, he doesn’t press, he doesn’t roll, but he will go to church or visit where he will go. Like a chained finger, at the end the nali will turn blue. Hanging earrings - worse than that.

The ears will pull back so that the lobes are swollen. And to take on the hand - not harder than those that Nastasya always wore. Beads in six or seven rows only once and tried on. Like ice around their necks, they don't get warm in the least. I didn't show those busts to people. I was ashamed.

- Look, they will say what a queen she found in the Field!

Stepan also did not compel his wife to carry from this box. Once he even once said:

Nastasya put the box in the lowest chest, where they keep the canvases and prints in reserve.

How Stepan died and the stones in his dead hand It turned out, Nastasya and took part in that box to strangers. And the one who knows who told about Stepanov's pebbles, and tells Nastasya later, as the people faded away:

- You, look, do not turn this box for a trifle. It costs big thousands.

He, this man, was a scientist, also from the free. Worse, he went around in dandies, but he was dismissed: he gives the people a weakness. Well, he did not disdain wine. It was also a good tavern, the plug was, not to be remembered, the little head is deceased. And so in everything correct. The request to write, the test to wash it off, the signs to look around - I did everything according to my conscience, not like other prototypes, anyhow to rip off half a shtof. Someone, and everyone will bring a glass to him as a festive affair. So he lived at our factory and lived to death. He ate around the people.

Nastasya had heard from her husband that this dandy was correct and smart in business, even though he was addicted to wine. Well, and listened to him.

- Okay, - he says, - I'll save it for a rainy day. - And put the box in its old place.

They buried Stepan, the magpies sent honor with honor. Nastasya is a woman in juice and with plenty, they began to grab onto her. And she is a smart woman, she says one thing to everyone:

- At least the gold second, but we will keep everything to the robots.

Well, we are behind in time.

Stepan good security left to the family. The house is good, the horse, the cow, the furnishings are complete. Nastasya is a hard-working woman, word-of-word robots, they don't live well. Live for a year, live for two, live for three. Well, they got poorer all the same. Where can a woman and youngsters manage the household! You also need to get a penny somewhere. For salt though. Here are relatives and let Nastasya hum in her ears:

- Sell the box! What is it to you? That good lies in vain. Everything is one and Tanya, as he grows up, will not wear. There are some things over there! Only bars and merchants fit to buy. With our remy you can't put on an eco-place. And people would give money. Delivery to you.

In a word, they slander. And the buyer, like a raven on a bone, swooped down. All merchants. Some give one hundred rubles, some two hundred.

- We are sorry for yours, because of your widowhood, we are doing your descent.

Well, they get along well with fools, but they got on the wrong one.

Nastasya remembered well what? the old dandy told her that he didn't sell for such a trifle. It's a pity too. After all, a groom's gift, a husband's memory. And even worse than that, her youngest girl burst into tears, asks:

- Mammy, don't sell! Mammy, don't sell! I’d better go to the people, and save the memo.

From Stepan, you see, there are three little robots left. Two boys. Robyats are as shy, but this one, as they say, is neither mother nor father. Even when Stepanova was still small, people marveled at this girl. Not that the girls-women, but the peasants said to Stepan:

- Not otherwise, this one from you, Stepan, fell out of the brushes. In whom it was just conceived! The little black thing itself and the little fable, and the little green eyes. It doesn't seem like our girls at all.

Stepan jokes, it used to be:

- It's not a miracle that she's a little black. Father, after all, from an early age skidded in the ground. And that the eyes are green is also not surprising. You never know, I stuffed malachite for Barin Turchaninov. Here is a memo left to me.

So he called this girl a Memo. "Come on, my memo!" And when it happened to her what to buy, so always blue or green will bring.

- Beauty is beauty, but not ours. Exactly who replaced the girl for me.

According to Stepan, this girl was killed very quickly. She was purely crying all over, she lost weight from her face, only her eyes remained. Mother thought of giving Tanyushka that casket to Malakhitov - let him have some fun. Even a little, but a girl, from an early age they are flattered to scoff at themselves. Tanya began to disassemble these things. And here's a miracle - which she tries on, the one for her. Mother didn't know why, but this one knows everything. And he also says:

- Mammy, how good is a donut! Warmth from him, as if you are sitting on a warmer, and even who is stroking you soft.

Nastasya sewed it herself, she remembers how her fingers were numb, her ears ached, her neck could not warm up. So he thinks: “It's not for nothing. Oh, not without reason! " - Yes, hurry up the box, then back into the chest. Only Tanya since then, no, no, and will ask:

- Mammy, let me play with a taty gift!

When Nastasya is nailed down, well, a mother's heart, she will regret it, take out the box, only punish:

- Don't break something!

Then, when Tanya grew up, she began to take out the box herself. The mother and the older boys will leave for the mowing or somewhere else, Tanyushka will remain to play housewives. First, of course, he will rule what the mother punished. Well, wash the cups and spoons, shake off the tablecloth, wave a broom in the hut with a broom, give the chicken feed, take a look in the stove. Will settle everything as soon as possible, and for the box. By that time, one of the upper chests remained, and even that one became light. Tanya will move him onto a stool, take out the casket and sort out the pebbles, admire, try on himself.

Once the chitnik also climbed up to her. Either he buried himself in the fence early in the morning, or then imperceptibly where he crawled, only from his neighbors no one saw him walking down the street. An unknown person, but in the case you see - someone brought him in, told the whole order.

- Oh, priests, I went blind! Oh, went blind! - and he rubs his eyes.

Tanya sees - something is wrong with the person, she began to ask:

- How are you, uncle, came to us, why did you take the ax?

And he knows he moans and rubs his eyes. Tanya took pity on him - she scooped up a ladle of water, wanted to serve, and the man just shied away from the door.

- Oh, don't come near! - So I sat in the senki and filled up the doors so that Tanya inadvertently would not jump out. Yes, she found a way - she ran out the window and to her neighbors. Well, they came. They began to ask what kind of person, by what occasion? He blinked a little, explains - the passing, de, wanted to ask for mercy, but something with his eyes cried out.

- As the sun hit. I thought I would go completely blind. From the heat, or something.

Tanya did not tell her neighbors about the ax and the stones. They think:

“It's a trifling matter. Maybe she herself forgot to lock the gate, so the passing one entered, and then something happened to him. You never know. "

Until Nastasya was still passing by, they didn’t let him go. When she and her sons arrived, this man told her what he had told his neighbors. Nastasya sees that everything is safe, she did not knit. The man left, and so did the neighbors.

Then Tanya's mother laid out how it was. It was then that Nastasya realized that she had come for the box, but it was evidently not easy to take it. And she herself thinks:

"To protect her all the same it is necessary stronger."

She took it on the sly from Tanya and others, and buried that box in the golbets.

All family members left again. Tanya missed the box, but it happened to be. It seemed bitter to Tanyushka, and then suddenly it smelled of warmth. What is this thing? Where? I looked around, and there was light from under the floor. Tanya was frightened - was it a fire? I looked into the golbets, there is a light in one corner. I grabbed a bucket and wanted to splash - only there is no fire and it does not smell of smoke. She dug in that place and saw - a box. I opened it, and the stones became even more beautiful. So they burn with different lights, and it is light from them, like in the sun. Tanya did not drag the box into the hut either. Here in the golbtse and played enough.

So it has been since then. The mother thinks: “She hid it well, no one knows,” and the daughter, how to play housewives, will snatch an hour to play with her father’s expensive gift. Nastasya would not let her relatives talk about the sale.

- The world will come just right - then I will sell.

Although she had a hard time, she strengthened herself. So they overcame for a few more years, then went on to the right. The older robots began to earn little money, and Tanya did not sit idly by. She, hey, learned how to sew with silk and beads. And so I learned that the best master craftswomen clapped their hands - where does she get the patterns, where does she get the silk?

And it also happened by chance. A woman comes to them. Small in stature, dark-haired, in Nastasya's already years, and with staring eyes and, apparently, sniffed such that just hold on. On the back there is a linen knapsack, in his hand a bird cherry bag, kind of like a wanderer. Asks Nastasya:

- Could you, hostess, have you a day or two to rest? The little legs do not carry, and do not go close.

At first Nastasya wondered if she had been sent again for the box, but then she let it go.

- The place is not a pity. If you don't lie, go and take it with you. Only here is an orphan piece from us. In the morning - an onion with kvass, in the evening kvass with an onion, all and change. You are not afraid to grow thin, so you are welcome, live as long as necessary.

And the wanderer has already put her little bag, put the knapsack on the hot stove and takes off her shoes. Nastasya did not like this, but kept silent.

“Look, you don't think so! They didn’t have time to greet her, but she took off her boots and untied her knapsack. ”

The woman unbuttoned her little knapsack and beckons Tanya to her with her finger:

- Come on, child, look at my needlework. If he looks, and I'll teach you ... Looks like a tenacious peephole, there will be!

Tanya came up, and the woman hands her a small fly, the ends are sewn with silk. And such and such, hey, a hot pattern on that fly that exactly in the hut became lighter and warmer.

Tanya glared at her, and the woman chuckles.

- Looked, know, daughter, my needlewoman? Do you want to learn?

- I want to, - he says.

Nastasya was so eager:

- And forget to think! There is nothing to buy salt, but you invented to sew with silks! The supplies are worth the money.

“Don't worry about that, mistress,” says the wanderer. - If my daughter has a concept, there will be supplies. I'll leave her for your bread and salt - that's enough for a long time. And then you will see for yourself. We pay money for our skill. We do not give our work for nothing. We have a piece.

Here Nastasya had to give in.

- If you spend supplies, then there is nothing to learn. Let him learn how much the concept is enough. I will thank you.

This woman started teaching Tanya. Pretty soon Tanya took over everything, as if she knew it before. And here's another thing. Tanya was not so affectionate to strangers, she was not affectionate to her own people, but she clings to this woman and clings to this woman. Nastasya skosa looked:

“I found myself a new relative. She won't fit her mother, but she stuck to the tramp! "

And she still teases evenly, she calls all Tanya a child and her daughter, but she never remembered her baptized name. Tanyushka sees that her mother is offended, but cannot restrain herself. Before that, hey, I trusted this woman, what I told her about the box!

- There is, - he says, - we have an expensive memorandum - Malachite's box. That's where the stones are! A century would have looked at them.

- Will you show me, daughter? The woman asks.

Tanya didn't even think it was wrong.

- I will show, - he says, - when none of the family is at home.

As soon as such an hour turned out, Tanya called that woman into the golbets. Tanya took out the box, showed it, and the woman looked a little, and said:

- Put it on yourself - it will be more visible.

Well, Tanyushka, - the wrong word, - began to put on, and she knows praises.

- Okay, daughter, okay! The droplet only needs to be corrected.

Came closer, and let's poke a finger into the pebbles. The one that touches - that one will light up differently. Tanya can see something different, not otherwise. After that, the woman says:

- Get up, daughter, straight.

Tanya got up, and the woman and let her slowly stroke her hair and back. She stroked everything, and she teaches:

- I will make you turn, so you, look, do not look back at me. Look ahead, notice what will happen, but don't say anything. Well, turn around!

Tanya turned around - in front of her was a room that she had never seen before. Not that the church, not that. The ceilings are high on pillars of pure malachite. The walls are also lined with malachite the size of a man, and a malachite pattern has passed along the upper cornice. Right in front of Tanyushka, as in the mirror, there is a beauty, about which only in fairy tales they say. Hair like night, and green eyes. And she's all adorned with precious stones, and her dress is made of green velvet with an overflow. And so this dress is sewn, like the queens in the pictures. What only keeps. Out of shame, our factory would have burned out in public to wear this, but this green-eyed woman stands calmly for herself, as if it should be so. The room is full of people. Dressed like a master, and all in gold and merit. Some have it hung in front, some have it sewn on the back, and some have it on all sides. Looks like the highest bosses. And their women are right there. Also bare-handed, gologruds, hung with stones. But where are they to green-eyed! None can hold a candle.

Along with the green-eyed, some kind of fair-haired. Eyes vskos, ears stumped, like a hare. And the clothes on him are a darkening of the mind. This little gold seemed a little, so he, hey, planted stones on both sides. Yes, they are so strong that maybe in ten years they will find one like that. You can see right away - this is a breeder. That green-eyed hare is gurgling, but at least she raised an eyebrow, as if he weren't there at all.

Tanya looks at this lady, marvels at her and only then noticed:

- After all, the stones are tarry on it! - joked Tanyushka, and nothing happened.

And that woman chuckles:

- I didn’t look, daughter! Do not grieve, you will see in time.

Tanya, of course, is questioning - where is this room?

- And this, - he says, - the royal palace. The very same chamber adorned with local malachite. Your late father was getting it.

- And who is this in the headdress and what kind of hare is it with her?

- Well, I won't say that, you yourself will soon find out.

On the same day, as Nastasya came home, this woman began to get ready for the journey. She bowed low to the hostess, gave Tanya a bundle of silks and beads, then took out a tiny button. Either it is made of glass, or it is made of a dummy to a simple edge. He gives it to Tanya, and says:

- Take, my daughter, a memo from me. How do you forget about work or a difficult case will come up, look at this button. Here you will have the answer.

She said so and left. They only saw her.

Since that time, Tanyushka has become a craftswoman, and even in the years she began to enter, she looks like a bride at all. The factory guys about Nastasya's eyes smoothed their eyes, and they are afraid to approach Tanyushka. You see, she is not affectionate, not cheerful, and where the free will go for a serf. Who wants to wear a noose?

In the master's house, they also visited about Tanyushka because of her skill. They began to send to her. A younger but more noble lackey will be dressed in a master's way, a watch with a tenacious will be given and sent to Tanyushka, as if for some business. They think, whether the girl will look at this fellow. Then you can reverse it. Sense all the same did not come out. Tanyushka will say what is on the case, and other conversations of that lackey are ignored. If you get tired of it, you will also set up a ridicule:

- Go, my dear, go! They are waiting. They are afraid, so that your watch will not wear out later and the chain will not hesitate. You see, without habit, how you call them.

Well, to a footman or other lordly servant, these words are like boiling water to a dog. He runs like scalded, snorts to himself:

- Is this a girl? Stone statue, green-eyed! Will we find such a thing!

He snorts like that, but he was already overwhelmed. Who will be sent, Tanyushka's beauty cannot be forgotten. As if bewitched to that place, you are drawn - even if you pass by, look out the window. On holidays, almost all the factory bachelor's business is on that street. They made the path at the very windows, but Tanyushka didn't even look.

The neighbors began to reproach Nastasya:

- What is it you Tatiana very high led herself? She has no girlfriends, she doesn't want to look at the guys. Tsarevich-prince is waiting for al in Christ's bride okay?

Nastasya only sighs for these concessions:

- Oh, old ladies, I don't know myself. And so my girl was tricky, and this witch who was passing by completely exhausted her. You start talking to her, and she stares at her witch button - and is silent. She would have thrown away this damned button, but on business it is good for her. How to change silk or something, so it looks like a button. She told me too, but apparently my eyes became dull, I can't see. I would have pounded the girl, yes, you see, she is an artisan with us. Honor, we only live by her work. I think, I think so, and a glow. Well, then she will say: “Mammy, because I know that my destiny is not here. I don’t welcome anyone and I don’t go to the games. Why should we drive people into anguish in vain? And as I sit under the window, my work requires it. Why are you coming to me? What have I done wrong? " So answer her!

Well, they started to live all right. Tanyushka's needlework went into fashion. Not like in the al factory in our city, they learned about it in other places, orders are sent and they pay a lot of money. A good man just right to earn so much. Only then misfortune caught them - the fire happened. And at night it was. The drive, the delivery, the horse, the cow, all the tackle - everything burned out. With that, they only stayed in what they jumped out in. However, Nastasya snatched out the box, she managed to do it in time. The next day he says:

- Apparently, the edge has come - we will have to sell the box.

- Sell it, mammy. Just don't be cheap.

Tanya furtively glanced at the button, and there the green-eyed one looms - let them sell it. Tanya felt bitter, but what can you do? All the same, this green-eyed father's memo will go away. She sighed and says:

- Sell so sell. - And she didn't even look at those stones goodbye. And then to say - the neighbors took shelter, where to lay out here.

They came up with this - to sell something, and the merchants are already right there. Who, perhaps, set up the arson himself in order to take possession of the box. Also, after all, the people are - a marigold, it will get scratched! They see - the robots have grown up - they give more. Five hundred there, seven hundred, one reached a thousand. A lot of money for the plant, you can get it. Well, Nastasya asked for two thousand all the same. So they go to her, dress up. They put it on little by little, but they themselves hide from each other, they cannot come to an agreement among themselves. You see, a piece of such - no one is reluctant to give up. While they were walking like that, a new salesman arrived at Polevoy.

When, after all, they - clerks - sit for a long time, and in those years some kind of transfer happened to them. The stuffy goat that Stepan was with was set aside by the old master on Krylatovskoe for the stench. Then there was Fried Ass. The workers put him on a blank. Then Severyan the Slayer interceded. This again the Mistress of the Copper Mountain threw into the empty rock. There were two more, there were three of them, and then this one arrived.

They say he came from foreign lands, he seemed to speak all kinds of languages, but worse Russian. Purely pronounced one thing - to flog. So high, with a stretch - steam. What a shortage they will talk to him about, one shouts: a lot! They called him Parotey.

In fact, this Parotya was not very thin. At least he shouted, but at all the people did not drive to the fire. The local booters did not care at all. The people sighed a little at this Parote.

Here, you see, the thing is something. The old master by that time had become completely fragile, barely fiddling with his feet. He came up with the idea of marrying his son to some sort of countess or something. Well, this young master had a sweetheart, and he had a great adherence to her. How can business be? It's awkward all the same. What will the new matchmakers say? So the old master began to conspire with that woman - his son's lover - for the musician. This musician served with the master. Robyatishek taught on music and so foreign conversation, as is conducted by their position.

- Than, - he says, - you so-and-so live on bad fame, marry you. I will dress you as a dowry, and I will send my husband as a clerk to the Field. The matter is directed there, let the people keep it stricter. Enough, come on, it’s good that even though he’s a musician. And you will live better with him in Polevoy. The first person, one might say, will be. Honors to you, respect from everyone. What's bad?

The conspiracy butterfly turned out to be. Either she was at odds with the young master, or she had a trick.

“For a long time,” he says, “I had a dream about it, but I didn’t dare to say it.

Well, the musician, of course, first rested:

- I don’t want to, - helluva lot of glory about her, like a slut.

Only the master is a cunning old man. No wonder I amassed the factories. Lively broke off this musician. He frightened them with something, ali hesitated, or made them drunk - their business, only soon the wedding was celebrated, and the young went to Polevoy. So Parotia appeared in our factory. Not long only lived, and so - what to say in vain - a person is not harmful. Then, as one and a half Hari interceded instead of him - from his factory, they felt so sorry even for this Parotya.

Parotya and his wife arrived just at the time the merchants were courting Nastasya. Parotina's woman was also prominent. White and ruddy - in a word, a lover. Probably the master wouldn’t take the worst. Also, go and choose! This Parotin’s wife heard that the box was being sold. "Come on," he thinks, "I'll see if something really worthwhile." She quickly pulled herself together and rolled over to Nastasya. Factory horses are always ready for them!

- Well, - he says, - dear, show me what kind of pebbles you sell?

Nastasya took out the box and showed it. Parotina's woman's eyes began to run. She, hey, was brought up in Sam-Petersburg, she visited different countries with the young master, she had a lot of things in these outfits. “What is it,” he thinks, “is it? The queen herself does not have such adornments, but here she is - in Polevoy, at the fire victims! As soon as the purchase fails ”.

- How much, - asks, - do you ask?

Nastasya says:

- I would like to take two thousand.

The lady was dressed up for a gimmick, and she says:

- Well, honey, get ready! Let's go to me with the box. You will get the money in full there.

Nastasya, however, did not go for it.

- We, - he says, - do not have such a custom that bread goes by belly. Bring the money - the box is yours.

The lady sees - there is such a woman - she quickly twisted herself for money, and she herself punishes:

- You, dear, do not sell the box.

Nastasya replies:

- Be in hope. I will not disassociate myself from my word. I will wait until the evening, and then my will.

Parotin's wife left, and the merchants all came running in at once. You see, they followed. They ask:

- Well, how?

- I sold it, - Nastasya answers.

- How much?

- For two, as appointed.

- What are you, - they shout, - did the mind decide, or what? You give it into the wrong hands, but you refuse to yours! - And let's add the price.

Well, Nastasya didn't bite this bait.

“This,” he says, “is a delightful thing for you to play in words, but I never happened. Has reassured the woman, and the conversation is over!

Parotina woman turned around sharply. I brought the money, handed it from pen to pen, grabbed the box and let's go home. Only on the threshold, and towards Tanya. She, you see, went somewhere, and this whole sale was without her. He sees - some kind of lady with a box. Tanyushka stared at her - they say, not the one she saw then. And Parotin's wife looked even more.

- What an obsession? Whose is this? - asks.

- People call their daughter, - Nastasya answers. - The very heiress of the box, which you bought. I would not sell, if not the edge came. From an early age she loved to play with these clothes. He plays and praises - how warm and good they make. What can I say about it! What has fallen from the cart is lost!

“In vain, dear, you think so,” says Parotina baba. - I'll find a place for these stones. - And to himself he thinks: “It's good that this green-eyed strength does not feel her. If she had appeared in Sam-Petersburg, she would have been spitting tsars. It should be - my fool Turchaninov did not see her. "

With that we parted.

Parotin's wife, when she arrived home, boasted:

- Now, my dear friend, I am not like you, and I am not compelled by the Turchaninovs. Just a little - goodbye! I’ll go to Sam-Petersburg or, even better, abroad, I’ll sell a casket, and I’ll buy two dozen men like you, if the need arises.

She boasted, but to show herself a new purchase is still a hunt. Well, how - a woman! I ran to the mirror and first of all attached the headgear. - Oh, oh, what is it! - I have no patience - twists and tears my hair. I barely escaped. And itching to do it. I put on the earrings - I almost burst my earlobes. She put her finger in the ring - she fettered it, barely pulled it off with soap. The husband chuckles: not so, apparently, wear!

And she thinks, “What is this? We must go to the city, show the master. He will adjust it as needed, if only he would not change the stones. "

No sooner said than done. The next day, in the morning, I drove away. It's not far from the factory troika. I found out what the most reliable master is - and to him. The master is old, old, but a dock in his business. He looked around the box and asked who bought it. The lady said that she knew. The master looked again at the box, but did not even look at the stones.

- I will not undertake, - he says, - what you like, let's. This is not the work of the local masters. It is inconvenient for us to compete with them.

The lady, of course, did not understand what the squiggle was in, snorted and ran to the other masters. Just as everyone agreed: they will look around the box, admire it, but they do not look at the stones and flatly refuse to work. The lady then went for a trick, she says that she had brought this box from Sam-Petersburg. They did everything there. Well, the master to whom she weaved this just laughed.

- I know, - he says, - in what place the box was made, and I have heard a lot about the master. To compete with him all of ours are not on the shoulder. On one whom the master drives, the other will not suit, what you want to do.

The lady didn’t understand all that, she only understood - it’s not right, they are afraid of someone master. She recalled that the old mistress had said that her daughter liked to wear these hats on herself.

“Was it not this green-eyed girl who was being driven? What a misfortune! "

Then he again translates in his mind:

“What is it to me! Selling any rich fool. Let him toil, but I will have the money! " With this I left for Polevoy.

She arrived, and there was news: they received the news - the old master ordered to live long. He arranged it cunningly with Parotey, but death outwitted him - took it and knocked it. He never had time to marry his son, and now he has become a complete master. After a short time, Parotin's wife received a letter. So and so, my dear, I will come to the factories through the spring water to show myself and I will take you away, and we will caulk your musician somewhere. Parotya somehow found out about it, he raised a noise-scream. It's a shame, you see, in front of the people for him. After all, the clerk, and then there is that - the wife is being taken away. He began to drink heavily. With employees, of course. They are happy to try for a gift. Here we were having a feast. Some of these booze and boast:

“She grew up in our factory, a beauty, you won't find another one like that soon.

Parotya and asks:

- Whose is this? Where does he live?

Well, they told him and remembered about the box - in this family, your wife bought the box.

Parotya also says:

- I should have a look.

And there was a drink and some trouble:

- At least now let's go - to examine whether they've built a new hut. The family, even if they are free, lives on the factory land. In which case, you can press it.

Send two, three with this Parotey. They dragged the chain, let's make a measurement, did Nastasya stab herself into someone else's estate, do the tops come out between the pillars. Are looking for, in a word. Then they go into the hut, and Tanya was just one. Parotya looked at her and lost his words. Well, I've never seen such beauty in any land. She stands like a fool, and she sits - keeping quiet, as if her case does not concern her. Then Parotia walked away a little, began to ask:

- What are you doing?

Tanyushka says:

- I sew by order, - and showed my work.

- I, - says Parotya, - can I make an order?

- Why not, if we agree on the price.

- Can you, - asks Parotya again, - I can embroider a patret with silks from myself?

Tanya slowly glanced at the button, and there the green-eyed one gives her a sign - take the order! - and points at himself with a finger. Tanya also answers:

“I’m not going to have my patret, but I have in mind a woman alone in expensive stones, in the tsarina’s dress, I can embroider this one. Only such work will not be cheap.

- About this, - he says, - do not hesitate, at least one hundred, at least two hundred rubles I will pay, if only there was a similarity with you.

- In the face, - he answers, - there will be similarity, but the clothes will be different.

We got together for a hundred rubles. Tanya also appointed a deadline - in a month. Only Parotya no, no, and will run in, as if to find out about the order, but he himself is not at all on his mind. She also frowned at him, but Tanyushka did not even notice at all. Say two or three words, and the whole conversation. The drunkards Parotins began to laugh at him:

- It won't break off here. You shouldn't flap your boots!

Well, here, Tanya embroidered that patret. Parotya looks - you, my God! But this is she herself, adorned with clothes and stones! He gives, of course, three hundredths tickets, but Tanya didn't take two.

- They are not oversized, - he says, - we accept gifts. We feed ourselves on labor.

Parotya ran home, admired the patret, and kept it from his wife. He began to feast less, and began to delve into the factory business a little, a little.

In the spring a young master came to the factories. I drove to the Field. The people were rounded up, a prayer service was served, and then the bell-bells went to the master's house. Two barrels of wine were also rolled out to the people - to commemorate the old one, to congratulate the new master. The seed, then, has been done. The Turchaninov masters were all for this. As you fill the master's glass with a dozen of your own, and who knows what kind of holiday it will seem, but in reality it will come out - you washed your last penny and is completely useless. The next day the people went to work, and in the master's house they feasted again. And so it went. Sleep as long as yes again for a party. Well, there, they ride on boats, ride horses into the forest, strum on music, but you never know. And Parotya was drunk all the time. On purpose, the master of the most dashing roosters put to him - pump them up to failure! Well, they are trying to help the new master.

Parotya even drunk, but he senses where this is heading. He is embarrassed in front of the guests. He speaks at the table, in front of everyone:

“I don’t mind that the master Turchaninov wants to take my wife away from me. Be lucky! I don’t need this. This is who I have! - Yes, and takes that silk patret out of his pocket. Everybody gasped, but Parotina woman couldn't close her mouth. The gentleman, too, has eaten up his eyes. He became curious.

- Who is she? - asks.

Parotya know he laughs:

- The table is full of gold mound - and I will not say that!

Well, how can you not say, if the factory immediately recognized Tanya. They try to one in front of the other - they explain to the master. Parotina woman with hands and feet:

- What do you! What do you! Make a fence that way! Where did the factory girl get such a dress, and even dear stones? And this husband brought the patret from abroad. He showed it to me even before the wedding. Now from the drunken eyes you never know what will weave. Soon he will not remember himself. Look all swollen!

Parotya sees that his wife is not very nice, he and let's cheektail:

- You stramina, you stramina! Why are you braiding your braids, throw sand in your master's eyes! What patret did I show you? Here they sewed it for me. The same girl they're talking about over there. As for the dress - I won't lie - I don't know. What kind of dress you can wear. And they had stones. Now you have it locked in your closet. She herself bought them for two thousand, but could not wear them. Apparently, the Cherkassko saddle does not fit the cow. The whole plant knows about the purchase!

As soon as the master heard about the stones, now:

- Well, show me!

He, hey, was not very smart, too dull. In a word, heir. He had a strong predilection for stones. He had nothing to flaunt, - as they say, neither height, nor voice, - so even with stones. Wherever he hears about good stone, now buy is okay. And he knew a lot about stones, even though he was not very smart.

Parotina woman sees - there is nothing to do, - brought the box. The master looked and immediately:

- How many?

She thumped completely unheard of. Master to dress up. In half they agreed, and the master signed the loan: there was no money, you see, with you. The master put the box on the table in front of him, and he says:

- Call this girl, about whom we are talking.

We ran after Tanyushka. She went right away - she thought how big the order was. She comes into the room, and there is a crowd of people and in the middle the very hare she saw then. Before this hare, the box is a father's gift. Tanya immediately recognized the master and asks:

- Why did you call?

The master can't even say a word. He stared at her, and that's all. Then all the same I found a conversation:

- Your stones?

- There were ours, now there are theirs, - and pointed to Parotin's wife.

- Mine now, - the master boasted.

- This is your business.

- Would you like to give it back?

- There is nothing to give away.

- Well, can you try them on? I want to see how these stones will fall on a person.

- This, - Tanyushka answers, - you can.

She took the box, took apart the clothes - it was a usual thing, and quickly attached them to the place. The master looks and only gasps. Oh yes ah, there are no more speeches. Tanya stood in her dress and asks:

- Have you looked? Will? I’m not just standing here because there’s work to be done.

The master is here in front of everyone and says:

- Marry me. Agree?

Tanya only grinned:

- It would not be a match for a master to say such a thing. - She took off her hats and left. Only the master does not lag behind. The next day I came to the match. Nastasya begs and prays: give me your daughter.

Nastasya says:

- I don’t take her will off, as she wants, but in my opinion - as if it doesn’t fit.

Tanya listened, listened, and even said:

- That's what, not that ... I heard that in the royal palace there is a chamber, trimmed with malachite duck of prey. Now, if you show me the queen in this ward, then I will marry you.

The master, of course, agrees to everything. Now he began to gather in Sam-Petersburg and calls Tanyushka with him - he says, I’ll leave the horses for you. And Tanyushka answers:

“According to our rite, the bride doesn’t ride groom’s horses to the crown, and we’re no one yet.” Then we'll talk about it, how you fulfill your promise.

- When, - asks, - will you be in Sam-Petersburg?

- To the Pokrov, - he says, - I will certainly be. Don't worry about it, but for now, get out of here.

The master left, Parotin's wife, of course, did not take, he does not even look at her. As soon as I arrived home in Sam-Petersburg-ot, let's glorify all over the city about the stones and about your bride. I showed the box to many. Well, they were very curious to see the bride. By the autumn, the master prepared an apartment for Tanyushka, brought in all sorts of dresses, put on clothes, and she sent the news - here she lives with such and such a widow on the very outskirts.

Master, of course, go there now:

- What do you! Is it a thought to live here? Quarter cooked, first grade!

And Tanyushka answers:

- I'm fine here.

The rumor about stones and Turchanin's bride reached the queen. She says:

- Let Turchaninov show me his bride. Something lies a lot about her.

Master to Tanyushka, - they say, you need to get ready. Sew an outfit so that you can put on stones from a malachite box in the palace. Tanya answers:

“It’s not your sadness about the outfit, but I’ll take the stones for holding.” Look, don't try to send horses for me. I'll be on my own. Just wait for me at the porch, in the palace.

The master thinks - where did she get the horses from? where is the palace dress? - and still did not dare to ask.

So they began to gather at the palace. Everybody rides on horses, in silks and velvets. Turchaninov the master spins around the porch early in the morning - he is waiting for his bride. Others are also curious to look at her, - they immediately stopped. And Tanyushka put on the stones, tied herself up with a handkerchief in the factory, threw on her fur coat and went on quietly. Well, people - where did this come from? - the shaft fells behind her. Tanyushka came up to the palace, and the tsar's lackeys did not let him in - it was not allowed, they say, from the factory. Turchaninov the master from afar saw Tanyushka, only he was ashamed in front of his own that his bride on foot, and even in this fur coat, he took and hid. Tanya opened her fur coat here, the footmen were looking - a dress! The queen does not have such a thing! - they let me in right away.

And when Tanyushka took off her handkerchief and her fur coat, everyone around them sank:

- Whose is this? What lands is the queen?

And master Turchaninov is right there.

“My fiancee,” he says.

Tanya looked at him sternly:

- We'll look ahead! Why did you deceive me - didn't wait at the porch?

Barin back and forth, - the gimmick came out. Excuse me please.

They went to the royal chambers, where it was ordered. Tanyushka is looking - not the right place. Turchaninova-barina asked even more severely:

- What is this deception? It has been told you that in that ward, which is lined with malachite by the titty work! - And went through the palace, then at home. And the senators, generals and protchi follow her.

- What, they say, is it? Apparently, it was ordered there.

There were a lot of people, and everyone did not take their eyes off Tanyushka, but she stood to the very malachite wall and was waiting. Turchaninov, of course, is right there. She grumbles to her that it’s not right, the queen ordered to wait in this room. And Tanyushka stands calmly, even if she raised an eyebrow, as if the master was not at all.

The queen went into the appointed room. Looks - no one is there. The Tsaritsa’s earpieces are bringing them - the Turchaninovska’s bride took everyone to the Malachite chamber. The queen grumbled, of course - what a self-righteousness! Sinking with her feet. She was angry, so a little. The queen comes to the Malachite's ward. Everyone bows to her, but Tanya stands - does not move.

The queen and shouts:

- Well, show me this tyrant - Turchanin's bride!

Tanyushka heard this, completely brought her eyebrows together, says to the master:

- This is what I came up with! I told the queen to show me, and you set me up to show her. Deception again! I don’t want to see you again! Get your stones!

With this word, she leaned against the malachite wall and melted. The only thing left is that the stones sparkle on the wall, as they stuck to the places where the head was, neck, hands.

Everyone, of course, was frightened, and the queen, unconscious, blurted out on the floor. They fussed, began to lift. Then, when the commotion subsided, the friends say to Turchaninov:

- Pick up at least stones! They will plunder quickly. Not some place - a palace! Here they know the price!

Turchaninov and let's grab those stones. Whichever one grabs, that one will curl up into a drop from him. Ina drop is clean, like a tear, ina yellow, and then again, like blood, thick. So I didn’t collect anything. He looked - a button was lying on the floor. From bottle glass, to a simple edge. Trivial. Out of grief, he grabbed her. He just took it in his hand, and in this button, as in a large mirror, a green-eyed beauty in a malachite dress, all adorned with expensive stones, laughs and laughs:

- Eh you, crazy scythe hare? Will you take me! Are you a match for me?

After that, the master lost his last mind, but did not abandon the button. No, no, and will look into her, and there everything is the same: the green-eyed woman is standing, laughing and saying hurtful words. Out of grief, the master let us have a feast, he made debts, it was almost during his time that our factories did not go under the hammer.

And Parotya, as he was dismissed, went to the taverns. I got drunk until the remki, and the patret was that silk coast. Where this patret then disappeared - nobody knows.

Parotin's wife did not profit either; come on, get on the borrowed paper, if all the iron and copper are pledged!

Since then, there has been no word about Tanyushka in our plant. As it was not.

Of course, Nastasya was grieving, but also not from strength. Tanya, you see, even though she was a guardian for the family, and all Nastasya is like a stranger.

And that is to say, Nastasya's guys had grown up by that time. Both got married. The grandchildren are gone. The people in the hut became thick. Know to turn around - look for that, give it to another ... Is it bored here!

The bachelor did not forget longer. He stomped under Nastasya's windows. They waited for Tanyushka to appear at the window, but they did not wait.

Then, of course, they got married, but no, no, they will remember:

- That's what a girl we had in the factory! You will not see another such in life.

Moreover, after this incident, a note came out. They said that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain began to split in two: people saw two girls in malachite dresses at once.

The tale "Malachite Box" tells about legends Ural mountains, about the hard underground labor of mining workers, about the art of folk stone cutters and cutters. The work describes the events of ancient times, when many people did not have complete freedom, and completely depended on their master. In the Malachite Box, the author Bazhov, expressed his delight and admiration for those people who will not sell their conscience and soul for any wealth. Human honor is incorruptible!

The meaning of the tale lies in the clear and inviolable conscience of many Ural women. This work of Bazhov teaches the future generation to live faithfully. A lie will certainly come out. The honor and dignity of a person in this work was above all.

One Ural woman, whose name was Nastasya, inherited a casket from Stepan's late husband. The box contained items made of precious stones, made by true craftsmen. Rich merchants did not leave her alone with their persuasions to sell the box. Nastasya knew the value of this wealth and did not succumb to the persuasion of irrepressible traders, so she was in no hurry to sell the precious box. This also did not want her daughter Tanyushka. She loved to play with beautiful decorations who fit her like no other girl. The girl was painted not only with expensive stones, but also with an elegant craft, which was taught to her by a beggar old woman... But, grief came, there was a fire in the house. The malachite box had to be sold. As a result, Stepanov's jewelry ended up in the hands of the master - the owner of local factories. And when he saw Tanyushka, a local needlewoman, he wished to marry her. She was already beautiful, and her father's jewelry made the girl even more beautiful. But, a young girl, set the conditions for the breeder that she would marry only when he showed her the queen herself in the royal chambers. In Petersburg, the master boasted to everyone about his extraordinary bride. The queen herself became interested in seeing the miracle, and she arranged a reception for distinguished guests. Barin Turchaninov promised to meet the Ural beauty at the threshold of the royal court, but at the last moment, seeing Tanyushka walking to the porch in a simple, poor and modest attire, he chickened out and deceived her. Hiding from what seemed to him shame, he missed important point... The fairy-tale heroine exposed the master's unclean intentions and, having entered the column, disappeared. Also disappeared gems, which melted in the wicked hands of Turchaninov.

Picture or drawing Malachite box

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With Nastasya, Stepanova's widow, the Malachitov's box remained. With every feminine device. Rings there, earrings and protchas according to the female rite. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself presented Stepan with this box, as he was still going to marry.
Nastasya grew up in orphanhood, was not used to some kind of wealth, and it was not a mistake to be a fashion lover. From the first years, when we lived with Stepan, I put on, of course, from this box. Only not to the soul she had. He will put on a ring ... Exactly just right, he doesn’t press, he doesn’t roll, but he will go to church or visit wherever he will. Like a chained finger, at the end the nali will turn blue. Hanging earrings - worse than that. The ears will pull back so that the lobes are swollen. And to take on the hand - not harder than those that Nastasya always wore. Beads in six or seven rows only once and tried on. Like ice around their necks, they don't get warm in the least. I didn't show those busts to people. I was ashamed.
- Look, they will say what a queen she found in the Field!
Stepan also did not compel his wife to carry from this box. Once he even once said:
- Take it away from sin.
Nastasya put the box in the lowest chest, where they keep the canvases and prints in reserve.
As Stepan died and the pebbles in his dead hand were, Nastasya took part in that box to strangers to show. And the one who knows who told about Stepanov's pebbles, and tells Nastasya later, as the people faded away:
- You, look, do not turn this box for a trifle. It costs big thousands.
He, this man, was a scientist, also from the free. Worse, he went around in dandies, but he was dismissed: he gives the people a weakness. Well, he did not disdain wine. It was also a good tavern, the plug was, not to be remembered, the little head is deceased. And so in everything correct. The request to write, the test to wash it off, the signs to look around - I did everything according to my conscience, not like other prototypes, anyhow to rip off half a shtof. Someone, and everyone will bring a glass to him as a festive affair. So he lived at our factory and lived to death. He ate around the people.
Nastasya had heard from her husband that this dandy was correct and smart in business, even though he was addicted to wine. Well, and listened to him.
- Okay, - he says, - I'll save it for a rainy day. - And put the box in its old place.
They buried Stepan, the magpies sent honor with honor. Nastasya is a woman in juice and with plenty, they began to grab onto her. And she is a smart woman, she says one thing to everyone:
- At least the gold second, but we will keep everything to the robots.
Well, we are behind in time.
Stepan left good support for the family. The house is good, the horse, the cow, the furnishings are complete. Nastasya is a hard-working woman, word-of-word robots, they don't live well. Live for a year, live for two, live for three. Well, they got poorer all the same. Where can a woman and youngsters manage the household! You also need to get a penny somewhere. For salt though. Here are relatives and let Nastasya hum in her ears:
- Sell the box! What is it to you? That good lies in vain. Everything is one and Tanya, as he grows up, will not wear. There are some things over there! Only bars and merchants fit to buy. With our remy you can't put on an eco-place. And people would give money. Delivery to you.
In a word, they slander. And the buyer, like a raven on a bone, swooped down. All merchants. Some give one hundred rubles, some two hundred.
- We are sorry for yours, because of your widowhood, we are doing your descent.
Well, they get along well with fools, but they got on the wrong one.
Nastasya remembered well what the old dandy told her, he didn't sell for such a trifle. It's a pity too. After all, a groom's gift, a husband's memory. And even worse than that, her youngest girl burst into tears, asks:
- Mammy, don't sell! Mammy, don't sell! I’d better go to the people, and save the memo.
From Stepan, you see, there are three little robots left. Two boys. Robyats are as shy, but this one, as they say, is neither mother nor father. Even when Stepanova was still small, people marveled at this girl. Not that the girls-women, but the peasants said to Stepan:
- Not otherwise, this one from you, Stepan, fell out of the brushes. In whom it was just conceived! The little black thing itself and the little fable, and the little green eyes. It doesn't seem like our girls at all.
Stepan jokes, it used to be:
- It's not a miracle that she's a little black. Father, after all, from an early age skidded in the ground. And that the eyes are green is also not surprising. You never know, I stuffed malachite for Barin Turchaninov. Here is a memo left to me.
So he called this girl a Memo. "Come on, my memo!" And when it happened to her what to buy, so always blue or green will bring.

So that girl grew up in people's minds. Exactly and in all likelihood the garusinka fell out of the festive belt - you can see it far away. And although she was not very fond of strangers, and everyone to her - Tanya and Tanyushka. The most envious women, and they admired. Well, how - beauty! Everyone is cute. One mother sighed:
- Beauty is beauty, but not ours. Exactly who replaced the girl for me.
According to Stepan, this girl was killed very quickly. She was purely crying all over, she lost weight from her face, only her eyes remained. Mother thought of giving Tanyushka that casket to Malakhitov - let him have some fun. Even a little, but a girl, from an early age they are flattered to scoff at themselves. Tanya began to disassemble these things. And here's a miracle - which she tries on, the one for her. Mother didn't know why, but this one knows everything. And he also says:
- Mammy, how good is a donut! Warmth from him, as if you are sitting on a warmer, and even who is stroking you soft.
Nastasya sewed it herself, she remembers how her fingers were numb, her ears ached, her neck could not warm up. So he thinks: “It's not for nothing. Oh, not without reason! " - Yes, hurry up the box, then back into the chest. Only Tanya since then, no, no, and will ask:
- Mammy, let me play with a taty gift!
When Nastasya is nailed down, well, a mother's heart, she will regret it, take out the box, only punish:
- Don't break something!

Then, when Tanya grew up, she began to take out the box herself. The mother and the older boys will leave for the mowing or somewhere else, Tanyushka will remain to play housewives. First, of course, he will rule what the mother punished. Well, wash the cups and spoons, shake off the tablecloth, wave a broom in the hut with a broom, give the chicken feed, take a look in the stove. Will settle everything as soon as possible, and for the box. By that time, one of the upper chests remained, and even that one became light. Tanya will move him onto a stool, take out the casket and sort out the pebbles, admire, try on himself.
Once the chitnik also climbed up to her. Either he buried himself in the fence early in the morning, or then imperceptibly he crawled where, only from the neighbors no one saw him walking down the street. An unknown person, but in the case you see - someone brought him in, told the whole order.

As Nastasya left, Tanyushka ran a lot around the house and climbed into the hut to play with her father's pebbles. She put on a headband and hung her earrings. At this time, and puff into the hut, this henchman. Tanya looked around - an unfamiliar man with an ax was on the doorstep. And their ax. In the senki, in a corner stood. Just now Tanya was rearranging it, as in the chalk chalk. Tanyushka was frightened, she sits as if she froze, but the peasant mocked, dropped the ax and captured his eyes with both hands, as he burned them. Moans-shouts:
- Oh, priests, I went blind! Oh, went blind! - and he rubs his eyes.
Tanya sees - something is wrong with the person, she began to ask:
- How are you, uncle, came to us, why did you take the ax?
And he knows he moans and rubs his eyes. Tanya took pity on him - she scooped up a ladle of water, wanted to serve, and the man just shied away from the door.
- Oh, don't come near! - So I sat in the senki and filled up the doors so that Tanya inadvertently would not jump out. Yes, she found a way - she ran out the window and to her neighbors. Well, they came. They began to ask what kind of person, by what occasion? He blinked a little, explains - the passing, de, wanted to ask for mercy, but something with his eyes cried out.
- As the sun hit. I thought I would go completely blind. From the heat, or something.
Tanya did not tell her neighbors about the ax and the stones. They think:
“It's a trifling matter. Maybe she herself forgot to lock the gate, so the passing one entered, and then something happened to him. You never know. "
Until Nastasya was still passing by, they didn’t let him go. When she and her sons arrived, this man told her what he had told his neighbors. Nastasya sees that everything is safe, she did not knit. The man left, and so did the neighbors.
Then Tanya's mother laid out how it was. It was then that Nastasya realized that she had come for the box, but it was evidently not easy to take it. And she herself thinks:
"To protect her all the same it is necessary stronger."
She took it on the sly from Tanya and others, and buried that box in the golbets.
All family members left again. Tanya missed the box, but it happened to be. It seemed bitter to Tanyushka, and then suddenly it smelled of warmth. What is this thing? Where? I looked around, and there was light from under the floor. Tanya was frightened - was it a fire? I looked into the golbets, there is a light in one corner. I grabbed a bucket and wanted to splash - only there is no fire and it does not smell of smoke. I dug in that place and saw - a box. I opened it, and the stones became even more beautiful. So they burn with different lights, and it is light from them, like in the sun. Tanya did not drag the box into the hut either. Here in the golbtse and played enough.
So it has been since then. The mother thinks: “She hid it well, no one knows,” and the daughter, how to play housewives, will snatch an hour to play with her father’s expensive gift. Nastasya would not let her relatives talk about the sale.
- The world will come just right - then I will sell.
Although she had a hard time, she strengthened herself. So they overcame for a few more years, then went on to the right. The older robots began to earn little money, and Tanya did not sit idly by. She, hey, learned how to sew with silk and beads. And so I learned that the best master craftswomen clapped their hands - where does she get the patterns, where does she get the silk?
And it also happened by chance. A woman comes to them. Small in stature, dark-haired, in Nastasya's already years, and with staring eyes and, apparently, sniffed such that just hold on. On the back there is a linen knapsack, in his hand a bird cherry bag, kind of like a wanderer. Asks Nastasya:
- Could you, hostess, have you a day or two to rest? The little legs do not carry, and do not go close.
At first Nastasya wondered if she had been sent again for the box, but then she let it go.
- The place is not a pity. If you don't lie, go and take it with you. Only here is an orphan piece from us. In the morning - an onion with kvass, in the evening kvass with an onion, all and change. You are not afraid to grow thin, so you are welcome, live as long as necessary.
And the wanderer has already put her little bag, put the knapsack on the hot stove and takes off her shoes. Nastasya did not like this, but kept silent.
“Look, you don't think so! They didn’t have time to greet her, but she took off her boots and untied her knapsack. ”
The woman unbuttoned her little knapsack and beckons Tanya to her with her finger:
- Come on, child, look at my needlework. If he looks, and I'll teach you ... Looks like a tenacious peephole, there will be!
Tanya came up, and the woman hands her a small fly, the ends are sewn with silk. And such and such, hey, a hot pattern on that fly that exactly in the hut became lighter and warmer.
Tanya glared at her, and the woman chuckles.
- Looked, know, daughter, my needlewoman? Do you want to learn?
- I want to, - he says.
Nastasya was so eager:
- And forget to think! There is nothing to buy salt, but you invented to sew with silks! The supplies are worth the money.
“Don't worry about that, mistress,” says the wanderer. - If my daughter has a concept, there will be supplies. I'll leave her for your bread and salt - that's enough for a long time. And then you will see for yourself. We pay money for our skill. We do not give our work for nothing. We have a piece.
Here Nastasya had to give in.
- If you spend supplies, then there is nothing to learn. Let him learn how much the concept is enough. I will thank you.
This woman started teaching Tanya. Pretty soon Tanya took over everything, as if she knew it before. And here's another thing. Tanya was not so affectionate to strangers, she was not affectionate to her own people, but she clings to this woman and clings to this woman. Nastasya skosa looked:
“I found myself a new relative. She won't fit her mother, but she stuck to the tramp! "
And she still teases evenly, she calls all Tanya a child and her daughter, but she never remembered her baptized name. Tanyushka sees that her mother is offended, but cannot restrain herself. Before that, hey, I trusted this woman, what I told her about the box!

Like almost all of Bazhov's tales, the "Malachite Box" is "the legend of the Ural Mountains." It is included in the collection of the same name, along with such well-known works as: "Ognevushka-jump", "Sinyushkin well", "Golden hair", " Silver Hoof"And so on.

The tale "The Malachite Box" is a continuation of the story "The Hostess of the Copper Mountain", as it contains it comes about the daughter of Stepan and Nastasya - Tanyushka. were created in 1936-1938, and were later combined by him into the collection "Malachite Box". The Mistress herself is a recurring character in all the stories of the collection. Moreover, in many stories she herself does not appear, but acts indirectly. The story itself is not very long, but we will try to shorten it even further, providing you with a short retelling.

"Malachite Box"

Bazhov did not immediately give the story such a name, at first it was called "Tyatino's Gift", but just before its publication, the author decided to change the name. As we can judge now, it turned out to be extremely successful. But this does not entirely relate to the topic of our conversation, we promised to retell you what Pavel Petrovich Bazhov wrote. "Malachite Box" ( summary we will describe the tale below) tells us about the events that develop a few years after the adventures of the heroes described in the tale "Mistress of the Copper Mountain."

Successful family life Stepan and Nastasya did not succeed - she became a widow, left with two children. Older sons can already help their mother, and Tanya is still too young for this. To keep her daughter busy, Nastasya lets her play with her wedding gift from the Mistress herself at the end of the previous tale - the development of wonderful events and decided to continue Bazhov. "Malachite box", the summary of which you are now reading, is not for nothing that it bears this name. It is full of jewelry crafted from local gems by mining craftsmen. These jewelry did not fit Nastasya: as soon as she put earrings into her ears, strung rings and adorned herself with a necklace, the case ended with the lobes beginning to swell, her fingers swelling, and a heavy and cold collar wrapped around her neck.

So, out of the kindness of her soulful little Tanyushka, she let her play with the jewels. The little girl was delighted! Immediately realizing that the rings are for fingers, and earrings are supposed to be put into the ears, she began to try on headsets, looking at which the empresses should feel like beggars.

Frightened that the case might end up with the casket being stolen, Nastasya hides it from her daughter. But she finds the mother's cache and continues to secretly try on jewelry, assuring that the stones are good for her. For this occupation, she is caught by a beggar beggar who has entered the hut to ask for some water. Having quenched her thirst, the beggar woman decides to stay for a while in a hospitable house, promising to teach Tanya to embroider marvelous tapestries with silk and beads as payment for the stay. She kept her word and even provided her student with the materials necessary for the work. Soon the wanderer went on, leaving in memory Tanya a valuable artifact - a button, through which she could communicate with her. This technique was borrowed from the old Russian fairy tales of the Bazhovs.

"Malachite box": a summary. Development of events

The family ceased to live in poverty, as needlework brought a good income, but then fate strikes the family another blow - a fire. Everything acquired by back-breaking labor burned down. To survive, Nastasya decides to sell the box, and the buyer is found instantly. It turns out to be the local clerk Parotya, or rather, his wife and former mistress of the young master Turchaninov. But the jewelry turned out to be out of size for the clerk's wife.

Meanwhile Turchaninov, having decided to inspect his Ural property, left Petersburg and appeared in Polevoy. I looked at the acquisition of my ex-lover and wanted to talk to the former owner. Seeing Tanyushka, he instantly inflamed with high feelings and, without leaving the place, offered her his hand, heart and fortune. As a proof of his decency, he presents her jewelry purchased from his former mistress as a gift.

Tanya did not refuse directly, but set a condition that she would give an answer after she was introduced to the empress. Moreover, the meeting ceremony should take place in the chambers decorated with malachite, which the late Stepan obtained, but for now she considers herself a conditional bride and temporary keeper of the contents of the box. Somewhat taken aback by such demands, Turchaninov agrees and goes to the capital to prepare everything for the bride's visit.

Bazhov "Malachite box": summary - end

In Petersburg, he began to boast that he would soon marry a dazzling beauty. This news excited the entire capital's elite, and the Empress herself wished to see this Ural beauty miracle. Turchaninov immediately informs Tanyushka that she is to arrive in St. Petersburg. Agreeing that the groom would meet her on the steps of the palace, Tatyana Stepanovna put on all the jewelry from the box and walked on foot to the meeting. To prevent passers-by from being blinded by the glitter of the gems, she covered them with an old fur coat. Seeing such a modestly dressed bride, the groom, out of shame, was ready to fall through the marble floor, and shamefully retreated from the meeting place. Tanya easily entered the territory of the palace, presenting her jewelry as a pass to the guards. Having handed over the fur coat of the servants, she went to the malachite chambers, but no one was waiting for her there, since the empress had appointed an audience in another room. Realizing that her fiance had impudently deceived her, she told him everything she thought, and then stepped into the nearest malachite column and disappeared into it. Turchaninov was left not only without a bride, but also without the contents of the malachite box: although the jewelry did not enter the stone after Tanyushka, remaining on the surface, it was not possible to collect them. And since then, in the Urals, two Mistresses began to appear to the people ...

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P.P. Bazhov

Malachite Box

Nastasya, Stepanova's widow, Malachitov's box remained. With every feminine device. Rings there, earrings and protchas according to the female rite. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain herself presented Stepan with this box, as he was still going to marry.

Nastasya grew up in orphanhood, was not used to some kind of wealth, and she was not very fond of fashion. From the first years, when we lived with Stepan, I put on, of course, from this box. Only not to the soul she had. He will put on a ring ... Exactly just right, he doesn’t press, he doesn’t roll, but he will go to church or visit where he will go. Like a shackled finger, at the end of the drink it will turn blue. Hanging earrings - worse than that. The ears will pull back so that the lobes are swollen. And to take on the hand - not harder than those that Nastasya always wore. Beads in six or seven rows only once and tried on. Like ice around their necks, they don't get warm at all. I didn't show those busts to people. I was ashamed.

Look, they will say what a queen she found in the Field!

Stepan also did not compel his wife to carry from this box. Once he even once said:

Nastasya put the box in the lowest chest, where they keep the canvases and prints in reserve.

As Stepan died and the pebbles in his dead hand were, Nastasya took part in that box to strangers to show. And the one who knows who told about Stepanov's pebbles, and tells Nastasya later, as the people faded away:

Look, don’t twist this box for a trifle. It costs big thousands.

He, this man, was a scientist, also from the free. Worse, he walked around in dandies, but he was dismissed; He gives the people weakened. Well, he did not disdain wine. It was also a good tavern, the plug was, not to be remembered, the little head is deceased. And so in everything correct. The request to write, the test to wash it off, the signs to look around - I did everything according to my conscience, not like other prototypes, anyhow to rip off half a shtof. Someone, and everyone will bring a glass to him as a festive affair. So he lived at our factory and lived to death. He ate around the people.

Nastasya had heard from her husband that this dandy was correct and smart in business, even though he was addicted to wine. Well, and listened to him.

Okay, - he says, - I'll save it for a rainy day. - And put the box in its old place.

They buried Stepan, the magpies sent honor with honor. Nastasya is a woman in juice, and with plenty, they began to grab onto her. And she, a smart woman, says one thing to everyone:

At least the gold second, but we will keep everything to the robots.

Well, we are behind in time.

Stepan left good support for the family. A good house, a horse, a cow, a complete set up. Nastasya is a hard-working woman, word-of-word robots, they don't live well. Live for a year, live for two, live for three. Well, they got poorer after all. Where can a woman and youngsters manage the household! You also need to get a penny somewhere. For salt though. Here are relatives and let Nastasya hum in her ears:

Sell the box! What is it to you? What a waste of good lie! Everything is one and Tanya, as he grows up, will not wear. There are some things over there! Only bars and merchants fit to buy. With our remy you can't put on an eco-place. And people would give money. Delivery to you.

In a word, they slander. And the buyer, like a raven on a bone, swooped down. All of the merchants. Some give one hundred rubles, some two hundred.

We are sorry for yours, we are doing the descent according to the position of widowhood.

Well, they get along well with fools, but they got on the wrong one.

Nastasya remembered well that the old dandy told her that he didn’t sell for such a trifle. It's a pity too. After all, a groom's gift, a husband's memory. And even worse than that, her youngest girl burst into tears, asks:

Mammy, don't sell! Mammy, don't sell! I’d better go to the people, and save the memo.

Not otherwise, this one has fallen out of your hands, Stepan. In whom it was just conceived! She herself is little black and little bass, and her eyes are green. It doesn't seem like our girls at all.

Stepan jokes, it used to be:

It’s not a miracle that she’s black. Father, after all, from an early age skidded in the ground. And that the eyes are green is also not surprising. You never know, I stuffed malachite for Barin Turchaninov. Here is a memo left to me.

So he called this girl a Memo. - Come on, my memo! - And when it happened to her what to buy, so always blue or green will bring.

Beauty is beauty, but not ours. Exactly who replaced the girl for me

Mammy, how good is a donut of meat! Warmth from him, as if you are sitting on a warmer, and even who is stroking you soft.

Nastasya sewed it herself, she remembers how her fingers were numb, her ears ached, her neck could not warm up. So he thinks: "It's not for nothing. Oh, for a reason!" -Yes, hurry, the box is back in the chest. Only Tanya since then, no, no, and will ask:

Mammy, let me play with a taty gift!

When Nastasya is nailed down, well, a mother's heart, she will regret it, take out the box, only punish:

Don't break anything!

Then, when Tanya grew up, she began to take out the box herself. The mother and the older boys will leave for the mowing or somewhere else, Tanyushka will remain to play housewives. First, of course, he will rule what the mother punished. Well, wash the cups and spoons, shake off the tablecloth, wave a broom in the hut, give the chicken feed, take a look in the stove. Will settle everything as soon as possible, and for the box. By that time, one of the upper chests remained, and even that one became light. Tanya will move him onto a stool, take out the casket and sort out the pebbles, admire, try on himself.

Oh, priests, I have gone blind! Oh, went blind! - and he rubs his eyes.

Tanya sees - something is wrong with the person, she began to ask:

How are you, uncle, came to us, why did you take the ax?

And he, know, groans and rubs his eyes. Tanya took pity on him - she scooped up a ladle of water, wanted to serve, and the man just shied away from the door.

Oh, don't come near! - So I sat in the senki and filled up the doors so that Tanya inadvertently would not jump out. Yes, she found a way - she ran out the window and to her neighbors. Well, they came. They began to ask what kind of person, by what occasion? He blinked a little, explains - the passing, de, wanted to ask for mercy, but something with his eyes cried out.

As the sun hit. I thought I would go completely blind. From the heat, or something.

Tanya did not tell her neighbors about the ax and the stones. They think:

"It's a trifling matter. Maybe she herself forgot to lock the gate, so the passing one came in, and then something happened to him. You never know."

Then Tanya's mother laid out how it was. It was then that Nastasya realized that she had come for the box, but it was evidently not easy to take it.

And she herself thinks:

"To protect her all the same it is necessary stronger."

She took it on the sly from Tanya and others, and buried that box in the golbets.

So it has been since then. The mother thinks: "Well, she hid it well, no one knows," and her daughter, how to play housewives, will snatch an hour to play with her father's expensive gift. Nastasya would not let her relatives talk about the sale.

The world will come just right - then I will sell.

Although she had a hard time, she strengthened. So they overcame for a few more years, then went on to the right. The older robots began to earn little money, and Tanya did not sit idly by. She, hey, learned how to sew with silk and beads. And so I learned that the best master craftswomen clapped their hands - where does she get the patterns, where does she get the silk?

Could you, hostess, have you rest for a day or two? The little legs do not carry, and do not go close.

At first Nastasya wondered if she had been sent back to fetch the box, then she let it in anyway.

The place is not a pity. If you don't lie, go and take it with you. Only now we have an orphan piece. In the morning - an onion with kvass, in the evening - kvass with an onion, all and change. You are not afraid to grow thin, so you are welcome, live as long as necessary.

And the wanderer has already put her little bag, put the knapsack on the hot stove and takes off her shoes. Nastasya did not like this, but kept silent.

“Look, you don't have time to greet her!”

The woman, and it is true, unbuttoned her little knapsack and beckons Tanya to her with her finger:

Come on, child, look at my needlework. If he takes a look, and I'll teach you ... Looks like a tenacious peephole will be at this!

Tanya came up, and the woman hands her a small fly, the ends are embroidered with silk. And such and such, hey, a hot pattern on that fly that exactly in the hut became lighter and warmer.

Tanya glared at her, and the woman chuckles.

Looked, know, daughter, my needlewoman? Do you want to learn?

I want, - he says.

Nastasya was so eager:

And forget to think! There is nothing to buy salt, but you invented to sew with silks! The supplies are worth the money.

Don't worry about that, mistress, ”says the wanderer. - If my daughter has a concept, there will be supplies. I'll leave her for your bread and salt - that's enough for a long time. And then you will see for yourself. We pay money for our skill. We do not give our work for nothing. We have a piece.

Here Nastasya had to give in.

If you spend supplies, then there is nothing to learn. Let him learn how much the concept is enough. I will thank you.

"I found myself a new relative. She won't fit my mother, but I stuck to the tramp!"

There is, - he says, - we have an expensive memorandum - Malachite's casket. That's where the stones are! A century would have looked at them.

Will you show me, daughter? the woman asks.

Tanya didn't even think it was wrong.

I will show, - he says, - when none of the family is at home.

As soon as such an hour turned out, Tanya called that woman into the golbets. Tanya took out the box, showed it, and the woman looked a little and said:

Put it on yourself - it will be more visible.

Well, Tanyushka, - the wrong word, - began to put on, and she, you know, praises:

Okay, daughter, okay! The droplet only needs to be corrected.

Came closer and let’s poke your finger into the pebbles. The one that touches - that one will light up differently. Tanya can see something different, not otherwise. After that, the woman says:

Stand up, daughter, straight.

Tanya got up, and the woman and let her slowly stroke her hair and back. She stroked Veya, and she herself instructs:

I will make you turn, so you, look, do not look back at me. Look ahead, notice what will happen, but don't say anything. Well, turn around!

Tanya turned around - in front of her was a room that she had never seen before. Not that the church, not that. The ceilings are high on pillars of pure malachite. The walls are also lined with malachite the size of a man, and a malachite pattern has passed along the upper cornice. Right in front of Tanyushka, as in the mirror, there is a beauty, about which only in fairy tales they say. Hair like night, and green eyes. And she's all adorned with precious stones, and her dress is made of green velvet with an overflow. And so this dress is sewn, like the queens in the paintings. What only keeps. Out of shame, our factory would have burned out in public to wear this, but this green-eyed woman stands calmly for herself, as if it should be so. The room is full of people. Dressed like a master, and all in gold and merit. Some have it hung in front, some sewn it in the back, and some have it on all sides. Looks like the highest bosses. And their women are right there. Also bare-handed, gologruds, hung with stones. But where are they to green-eyed! None can hold a candle.

Tanya looks at this lady, marvels at her and only then noticed:

After all, the stones are tarry on it! - joked Tanyushka, and nothing happened.

And that woman chuckles:

I didn't see it, daughter! Do not grieve, you will see in time.

Tanya, of course, is questioning - where is this room?

And this, he says, is the royal palace. The same tent, decorated with local malachite. Your late father was getting it.

And who is this in tatny headdresses and what kind of hare is this with her?

Well, I won't say that, you yourself will soon find out.

On the same day, as Nastasya came home, this woman began to get ready for the journey. She bowed low to the hostess, gave Tanya a bundle of silks and beads, then took out a little button. Either it is made of glass, or it is made of a dummy to a simple edge,

He gives it to Tanya and says:

Take, daughter, a memo from me. How do you forget about work or a difficult case will come up, look at this button. Here you will have the answer.

She said so and left. They only saw her.

Since that time, Tanyushka has become a craftswoman, and even in years she began to enter, she looks like a bride at all. The factory guys about Nastasya's eyes smoothed their eyes, and they are afraid to approach Tanyushka. You see, she is not affectionate, not cheerful, and where the free will go for a serf. Who wants to wear a noose?

In the master's house, they also visited about Tanyushka because of her skill. They began to send to her. A younger but more noble lackey will be dressed in a master's way, a watch with a chain will be given and sent to Tanyushka, as if for some business. They think, whether the girl will look at this fellow. Then you can reverse it. Sense all the same did not come out. Tanyushka will say what is on the case, and other conversations of that lackey are ignored. If you get tired of it, you will also set up a ridicule:

Go, my dear, go! They are waiting. They are afraid, so that your watch will not wear out later and the chain will not hesitate. You see, without habit, how you call them.

Well, to a footman or other lordly servant, these words are like boiling water to a dog. He runs like scalded, snorts to himself:

Is this a girl? Stone statue, green-eyed! Will we find such a thing!

The neighbors began to reproach Nastasya:

What is it that you have Tatyana very high behaved? She has no girlfriends, she doesn't want to look at the guys. Tsarevich-prince is waiting for al in Christ's bride okay?

Nastasya only sighs for these concessions:

Oh, old ladies, I don't know myself. And so my girl was tricky, and this witch who was passing by completely exhausted her. You start talking to her, and she stares at her witch button and is silent. She would have thrown away this damned button, but on business it is good for her. How to change silk or something, so it looks like a button. She told me too, but apparently my eyes became dull, I can't see. I would have pounded the girl, yes, you see, she is an artisan with us. Honor, we only live by her work. I think, I think so, and the glow. Well, then she will say: "Mammy, because I know that my destiny is not here. I don't welcome anyone and I don't go to the games. Why should I drive people into depression in vain? And as I sit under the window, my work requires it. For nothing." What are you coming to me? What have I done wrong? " So answer her!

Apparently, the edge has come - you will have to sell the box.

Sell it, mommy. Just don't be cheap.

Sell so sell. - And she didn't even look at those stones goodbye. And then to say - the neighbors took shelter, where to lay out here.

They came up with this - to sell something, and the merchants are already right there. Who, perhaps, set up the arson himself in order to take possession of the box. Also, after all, the people are - a marigold, it will get scratched! They see, - the robots have grown up, - they give more. Five hundred there, seven hundred, one reached a thousand. A lot of money for the plant, you can get it. Well, Nastasya asked for two thousand after all. So they go to her, dress up. They put it on little by little, but they themselves hide from each other, they cannot come to an agreement among themselves. You see, a piece of such - no one is reluctant to give up. While they were walking like that, a new salesman arrived at Polevoy.

When, after all, they - clerks - sit for a long time, and in those years some kind of transfer happened to them. The old master on Krylatovsko left the stuffy goat that Stepan had with him for the stench. Then there was Fried Ass. The workers put him on a blank. Then Severyan the Slayer interceded. This again the Mistress of the Copper Mountain threw into the empty rock. There were two more, there were three of them, and then this one arrived.

In fact, this Parotya was not very thin. At least he shouted, but at all the people did not drive to the fire. The local booters did not care at all. The people sighed a little at this Parote.

Than, - he says, - you so-and-so live on bad fame, marry you. I will dress you as a dowry, and I will send my husband as a clerk to the Field. The matter is directed there, let the people keep it stricter. Enough, come on, it’s good that even though he’s a musician. And you will live better with him in Polevoy. The first person, one might say, will be. Honors to you, respect from everyone. What's bad?

The conspiracy butterfly turned out to be. Either she was at odds with the young master, or she had a trick.

For a long time, - he says, - she had a dream about it, but to say - she did not dare.

Well, the musician, of course, first rested:

I don't want to, - helluva lot of glory about her, like a whore.

Only the master is a cunning old man. No wonder I amassed the factories. Lively broke off this musician. He frightened them with what Ali placated, or made them drunk - their business, only soon the wedding was celebrated, and the young went to Polevoy. So Parotia appeared in our factory. Not long only lived, and so - what to say in vain - a person is not harmful. Then, as one and a half Hari interceded instead of him - from his factory, they felt so sorry even for this Parotya.

Parotya and his wife arrived just at the time the merchants were courting Nastasya. Parotina's woman was also prominent. White and ruddy - in a word, a lover. Probably the master wouldn’t take the worst. Also, go and choose! This Parotin’s wife heard that the box was being sold. "Come on," he thinks, "I'll see if it’s worth something." She quickly pulled herself together and rolled over to Nastasya. Factory horses are always ready for them!

Well, - he says, - dear, show me what kind of pebbles you sell?

Nastasya took out the box and showed it. Parotina's woman's eyes began to run. She, hey, was brought up in Sam-Petersburg, she visited different countries with the young master, she had a lot of things in these outfits. “What is it,” he thinks, “is it? The queen herself does not have such adornments, but here, at the same time, in Polevoy, at the fire victims! As soon as the purchase fails ”.

How much, - asks, - do you ask?

Nastasya says:

I'd like to take two thousand.

Well, honey, get ready! Let's go to me with the box. You will get the money in full there.

Nastasya, however, did not go for it.

We, - he says, - do not have such a custom for bread to go round the belly. Bring the money - the box is yours.

The lady sees - there is such a woman - she quickly twisted herself for money, and she herself punishes:

Don't sell the box, honey.

Nastasya replies:

Be in hope. I will not disassociate myself from my word. I will wait until the evening, and then my will.

Parotin's wife left, and the merchants all came running in at once. You see, they followed. They ask:

I sold it, - Nastasya answers.

How much?

For two, as appointed.

What are you, - they shout, - the mind has decided, or what! You give it into the wrong hands, but you refuse to yours! - And let's add the price.

Well, Nastasya didn't bite this bait.

This, - he says, - it’s a matter of fancy for you to turn around in words, but I didn’t happen to. Has reassured the woman, and the conversation is over!

What an obsession? Whose is this? - asks.

People call their daughter, - answers Nastasya. - The very heiress of the box, which you bought. I would not sell, if not the edge came. From an early age she loved to play with these clothes. He plays and praises - how warm and good they make. What can I say about it! What has fallen from the cart is lost!

In vain, dear, you think so, - says Parotina baba. - I'll find a place for these stones. - And to himself he thinks: “It’s good that this green-eyed power doesn’t feel her strength. If she had appeared in Sam-Petersburg, she would have turned it over as tsars.

With that we parted.

Parotin's wife, when she arrived home, boasted:

Now, my dear friend, I am not like you, and I am not compelled by the Turchaninovs. Just a little - goodbye! I’ll go to Sam-Petersburg or, even better, abroad, I’ll sell a casket, and I’ll buy two dozen men like you, if the need arises.

She boasted, but to show herself a new purchase is still a hunt. Well, how - a woman! I ran to the mirror and first of all attached the headgear. - Oh, oh, what is it! - I have no patience - twists and tears my hair. I barely escaped. And itching to do it. I put on the earrings - I almost broke my earlobes. She put her finger in the ring - she fettered it, barely pulled it off with soap. The husband chuckles: not so, apparently, wear!

And she thinks: "What kind of thing? We need to go to the city, show the master. He will adjust it as needed, so that he does not change the stones."

I will not undertake, - he says, - what you like, let's. This is not the work of the local masters. It is inconvenient for us to compete with them.

I know, - he says, - in what place the box was made, and I have heard a lot about the master. To compete with him all of ours are not on the shoulder. On one whom the master drives, the other will not suit, what you want to do.

"Didn't they fit this green-eyed girl? What a problem!"

Then he again translates in his mind:

"Yes, what is it to me! I will sell to any rich fool. Let him toil, but I will have the money!" With this I left for Polevoy.

She arrived, and there was news: they received the news, the old master ordered to live long. He arranged it cunningly with Parotey, but death outwitted him - took it and knocked it. He never had time to marry his son, and now he has become a complete master. After a short time, Parotin's wife received a letter. So and so, my dear, I will come to the factories through the spring water to show myself and I will take you away, and we will caulk your musician somewhere. Parotya somehow found out about it, he raised a noise-scream. It's a shame, you see, in front of the people for him. After all, the clerk, and then there is that - the wife is being taken away. He began to drink heavily. With employees, of course. They are happy to try for a gift. Here we were having a feast. Some of these booze and boast:

She grew up in our factory, a beauty, you won't find another one like that soon.

Parotya and asks:

Whose is this? Where does he live?

Well, they told him and remembered about the box - in this family, your wife bought the box. Parotya also says:

I ought to have a look - but there was a drink and some trouble.

At least now let's go - to survey, if they’ve put up a new hut. The family is free, but they live on the factory land. In which case, you can press it.

What are you doing?

Tanyushka says:

I sew by order - and I showed my work.

I, - says Parotya, - can I make an order?

Why not, if we agree on the price.

Can you, - asks Parotya again, - I can embroider a patret with silks from myself?

Tanya slowly glanced at the button, and there the green-eyed woman gives her a sign - take the order! - and points at himself with a finger. Tanya also answers:

I will not be my patron, but I have in mind a woman alone in expensive stones, in the tsarina's dress, I can embroider this one. Only such work will not be cheap.

About this, - he says, - do not hesitate, at least a hundred, at least two hundred rubles, if only there was a similarity with you.

In the face, - he answers, - there will be similarity, but the clothes will be different.

It won't break off here. You shouldn't flap your boots!

Well, Tanya embroidered that patret. Looks Parotya - fu you, my God! But this is she herself, adorned with clothes and stones. He gives, of course, three hundredths tickets, but Tanya didn't take two.

They are not overpriced, - he says, - we accept gifts. We feed ourselves on labor.

Parotya ran home, admired the patret, and kept it from his wife. He began to feast less, and began to delve into the factory business a little, a little.

In the spring a young master came to the factories. I drove to the Field. The people were rounded up, a prayer service was served, and then the bell-bells went to the master's house. Two barrels of wine were also rolled out to the people - to commemorate the old one, to congratulate the new master. The seed, then, has been done. The Turchaninov masters were all for this. As you fill the master's glass with a dozen of your own, and who knows what holiday will seem, but in reality it will come out - you washed your last penny and is completely useless. The next day the people went to work, and in the master's house they feasted again. And so it went. Sleep as long as yes again for a party. Well, there, they ride on boats, ride horses into the forest, strum on music, but you never know. And Parotya was drunk all the time. On purpose, the master of the most dashing roosters put to him - pump them up to failure! Well, they are trying to help the new master.

Parotya even drunk, but he senses where this is heading. He is embarrassed in front of the guests. He speaks at the table, in front of everyone:

I don't mind that the master Turchaninov wants to take my wife away from me. Be lucky! I don’t need this. This is who I have! - Yes, and takes that silk patret out of his pocket. Everybody gasped, but Parotina woman couldn't close her mouth. The gentleman, too, has eaten up his eyes. He became curious.

Who is she? - asks.

Parotya know he laughs:

The table is full of gold, a mound - and I won't say that!

Well, how can you not say, if the factory immediately recognized Tanya. They try to one in front of the other - they explain to the master. Parotina woman with hands and feet:

What do you! What do you! Make a fence that way! Where did the factory girl get such a dress, and even dear stones? And this husband brought the patret from abroad. He showed it to me even before the wedding. Now from the drunken eyes you never know what will weave. Soon he will not remember himself. Look, I'm all swollen!

Parotya sees that his wife is not very nice, he and let's cheektail:

You stramina, you stramina! Why are you braiding your braids, throwing sand in your master's eyes! What patret did I show you? Here they sewed it for me. The same girl they're talking about over there. As for the dress - I won't lie - I don't know. What kind of dress you can wear. And they had stones. Now you have it locked in your closet. She herself bought them for two thousand, but could not wear them. Apparently, the Cherkassko saddle does not fit the cow. The whole plant knows about the purchase!

As soon as the master heard about the stones, now:

Well, show me!

He, hey, was a little-minded, dull. In a word, heir. He had a strong predilection for stones. He had nothing to flaunt, - as they say, neither height, nor voice, - so even with stones. Wherever he hears about a good stone, now it is okay to buy. And he knew a lot about stones, even though he was not very smart.

Parotina woman sees - there is nothing to do, - brought the box. The master looked and immediately:

How many?

Call this girl, about whom we are talking.

Why did you call?

The master can't even say a word. He stared at her and that's all. Then all the same I found a conversation:

Your stones?

There were ours, now there are theirs, - and pointed to Parotin's wife.

Mine now, - the master boasted.

This is your business.

Would you like to give it back?

There is nothing to give away.

Well, can you try them on? I want to see how these stones will fall on a person.

This, - replies Tanyushka, - is possible.

She took the box, dismantled the clothes, - as usual, - and quickly attached them to the place. The master looks and only gasps. Oh yes ah, there are no more speeches. Tanya stood in her dress and asks:

Have you looked? Will? I’m not just standing here because there’s work to be done.

The master is here in front of everyone and says:

Marry me. Agree?

Tanya only grinned:

It wouldn't be a match for a master to say that. - She took off her hats and left.

Only the master does not lag behind. The next day I came to the match. Nastasya begs and prays: give me your daughter.

Nastasya says:

I don’t remove her will, as she wants, but in my opinion - as if it doesn’t fit.

Tanya listened, listened and said:

That’s what, not that ... I heard that there is a chamber in the royal palace, lined with malachite of duck prey. Now, if you show me the queen in this ward, then I will marry you.

The master, of course, agrees to everything. Now he began to gather in Sam-Petersburg and calls Tanyushka with him - he says, I’ll leave the horses for you. And Tanyushka answers:

According to our rite, the bride does not ride the groom's horses to the crown, and we are still nobody. Then we'll talk about it, how you fulfill your promise.

When, - asks, - will you be in Sam-Petersburg?

To the Pokrov, - he says, - I will certainly be. Don't worry about it, but for now, get out of here.

What do you! Is it a thought to live here? Quarter cooked, first grade!

And Tanyushka answers:

The rumor about stones and Turchanin's bride reached the queen. She says:

Let Turchaninov show me his bride. Something lies a lot about her.

Master to Tanyushka, - they say, you need to get ready. Sew an outfit so that you can put on stones from a malachite box in the palace. Tanya answers:

It's not your sadness about the outfit, but I'll take the stones for holding. Yes, look, don't try to send horses for me. I'll be on my own. Just wait for me at the porch, in the palace.

The master thinks - where did she get the horses from? where is the palace dress? - and still did not dare to ask.

So they began to gather at the palace. Everybody rides on horses, in silks and velvets. Turchaninov's master spins around the porch early in the morning - he is waiting for his bride. Others are also curious to look at her, - they immediately stopped. And Tanyushka put on the stones, tied herself up with a handkerchief in the factory, threw on her fur coat and went on quietly. Well, people - where did this come from? - the shaft fells behind her. Tanyushka came up to the palace, and the tsar's lackeys did not let him in - it was not allowed, they say, from the factory. Turchaninov's master from afar saw Tanyushka, only he was ashamed in front of his own that his bride on foot, and even in this fur coat, he took and hid. Tanya opened her fur coat here, the footmen were looking - a dress! The queen does not have such a thing! - they let me in right away. And when Tanyushka took off her handkerchief and her fur coat, everyone around them sank:

Whose is this? What lands is the queen?

And master Turchaninov is right there.

My fiancee, he says.

Tanya looked at him sternly:

Let's see it ahead! Why did you deceive me - didn't wait at the porch?

Barin back and forth, - the gimmick came out. Excuse me please.

They went to the royal chambers, where it was ordered. Tanyushka is looking - not the right place. Turchaninova asked the master even more severely:

What is this deception? It has been told you that in that ward, which is lined with malachite by the titty work! - And went through the palace, then at home. And the senators, generals and protchi follow her.

What, they say, is it? Apparently, it was ordered there.

The queen and shouts:

Well, show me this unauthorized bride - Turchanin's bride!

Tanyushka heard this, completely brought her eyebrows together, says to the master:

This is what I came up with! I told the queen to show me, and you set me up to show her. Deception again! I don’t want to see you again! Get your stones!

With this word, she leaned against the malachite wall and melted. The only thing left is that the stones sparkle on the wall, as they stuck to the places where the head was, neck, hands.

Everyone, of course, was frightened, and the queen, unconscious, blurted out on the floor. They fussed, began to lift. Then, when the commotion subsided, the friends say to Turchaninov:

Pick up at least stones! They will plunder quickly. Not some place - a palace! Here they know the price!

Oh, you crazy scythe hare! Will you take me! Are you a match for me?

And Parotya, as he was dismissed, went to the taverns. I got drunk until the remki, and the patret was that silk coast. Where this patret then disappeared - nobody knows.

Parotin’s wife didn’t profit either: come on, get on the borrowed paper, if all the iron and copper have been pledged!

Since then, there has been no word about Tanyushka in our plant. As it was not.

Of course, Nastasya was grieving, but also not from strength. Tanya, you see, even though she was a guardian for the family, and all Nastasya is like a stranger.

The bachelor did not forget longer. He stomped under Nastasya's windows. They waited for Tanyushka to appear at the window, but they did not wait.

Then, of course, they got married, but no, no, they will remember:

That's what a girl we had in the factory! You will not see another such in life.

Moreover, after this incident, a note came out. They said that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain began to split in two: people saw two girls in malachite dresses at once.