Works. Volume 2

15 hrs. 0 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Pavel Bazhov

Narrator Vladimir Sushkov

The second volume of P. P. Bazhov’s collected works contains the writer’s tales, most of which were written at the end of the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war years. The volume opens with a cycle of tales devoted to the great leaders of peoples—Lenin and Stalin. Then follow tales about Russian master craftsmen of arms—steelworkers, coin-chasers, founders. Here the theme of innovation is linked to the theme of patriotic pride of the Russian worker, who glorified his homeland through labor feats.

The narrator, as in the tales of the first volume, is an experienced, seasoned miner/smelter. Earlier, in this role, there was “Grandfather Slyshko”—the “factory old man,” the one who had “worked out” his strength in the aristocrats’ ore mines and gold prospecting, who had seen even serfdom. In many tales of the second volume, the narrator is the Urals miner of a new generation. He is a participant in the Civil War, fighting with weapons in his hands for Soviet power, and later building socialist society. Speaking about the past of the Urals, he tells of great changes that occurred in the life of the working people after the October Revolution. Sometimes, in the tales, you can hear the voice of the author himself—from whose point of view the story is told.

Contents

Eagle’s feather
Sunstone
The hero’s glove
A gift from old mines
Ivanko the Winged
Veselyukhin ladle
The hidden native secret
The diamond match
Cast-iron granny
Crystal varnish
Cockroach soap
A silk mound/stack
A living thing in business
Vasina mountain
A far-off viewing-glass
Ore crossing
Goldflower of the mountain
A circular lantern
Broad shoulder
Amethyst work
Not that crane
A living spark
Demidov’s caftans
About the chief thief
Markov stone
An inscription on a stone
A heavy auger
About “divers”
In the same place
Copper share
A turn of dear land
By the old mine

1. Works. Volume 1 (narrated by Yury Zaborovsky) 2. Works. Volume 2 3. Works. Volume 3 (narrated by Vyacheslav Gerasimov)