Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer.

Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket (“Малахитовая Шкатулка”), based on the Urals folklore

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 and published in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York

New York

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 and London

London

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. Later Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 created the ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower based on one of the tales.