The Malachite Casket (fairy tale)

"The Malachite Casket"
Short story by Pavel Bazhov
Original titleМалахитовая шкатулка
TranslatorAlan Moray Williams (first), Eve Manning, et al.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian
Genre(s)skaz
Publication
Published inNa Smenu!
Publication typePeriodical
Media typePrint (newspaper, hardback and paperback)
Publication date1938
Published in English1944
SeriesThe Malachite Casket collection (list of stories)

"The Malachite Casket" (Russian: Малахитовая шкатулка, romanized: Malahitovaja shkatulka), also known as "The Malachite Box",[1] is a folk tale (the so-called skaz) of the Ural region collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the several issues of the Sverdlovsk newspaper Na Smenu! in September—November 1938, and in Uralsky Sovremennik (volume 1, 1938). It was later released as a part of The Malachite Casket collection. "The Malachite Casket" is considered to be one of the best stories in the collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in the 1950s.

  1. ^ Hilary Chung; Michael Falchikov (1996). In the party spirit: socialist realism and literary practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China. Rodopi. p. 116. ISBN 978-90-5183-979-1.