Uralskie skazy i legendy

Uralskie legendy i skazanija stali shiroko izvestny blagodarja "tajnym skazam" Pavla Bazhova, osnovannym na folklore gornorabochikh i zolotodobytchikov (a bolshej chastju - stavshim plodom fantazii velikogo skazochnika). No uralskaja zemlja rozhdala i inye tainstvennye predanija: legendy moguchej uralskoj tajgi i skazy, svjazannye s Uralskimi gorami, skazanija beskrajnikh stepej Preduralja, istoricheskij folklor. Ikh sobirali mnogie proslavlennye pisateli: filolog i folklorist Vladimir Dal, sozdatel sagi "Ugrjum-reka" Vjacheslav Shishkov, literator i puteshestvennik Vasilij Nemirovich-Danchenko, avtor "Seroj shejki" i "Alenushkinykh skazok" Dmitrij Mamin-Sibirjak, a takzhe drugie pevtsy sokrovisch Uralskoj zemli.Nashe sobranie skazov, mifov i legend Urala, kotoroe stanet otlichnym dopolneniem k "Malakhitovoj shkatulke", illjustrirovano shedevrami znamenitykh russkikh khudozhnikov: Apollinarija Vasnetsova, Mikhaila Nesterova, Petra Vereschagina i drugikh.