Pavel Petrovich Bashov

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Pavel Bashov, 1911

Pawel Petrovich Baschow ( Russian Павел Петрович Бажов , scientific transliteration Pavel Petrovič Bažov ; born January 27, 1879 in Syssert near Yekaterinburg , † December 3, 1950 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer. He became known for his fairy tales and legends from the Ural region.

Life

Bashov was born into simple circumstances. His ancestors were serf ironworkers. He spent his childhood in Polewskoi . He first attended a school in Yekaterinburg for four years. From 1893 to 1899 he attended the Spiritual Seminary in Perm . From 1899 he worked as a primary school teacher and gave Russian lessons in Yekaterinburg and later in Kamyshlov . In the school holidays he hiked through the Ural Mountains .

In 1918 he became a member of the Bolsheviks and took part in the Russian civil war for four years . Bashov edited a division newspaper. He wrote feature sections , stories and sketches. After the end of the civil war, he was a correspondent for the Sverdlovsk newspaper in the Urals region. In 1924 he published his first book with Stories from the Urals . Then he dealt in his work with the time of the civil war. The green hay horse followed in 1939 in which he dealt with the harsh living conditions in the Urals. However, he became known with the book Die Malachitschatulle , also published in 1939 , in which he published 14 fairy tales and legends of the Ural region. He added further stories to this work in the following years. He wrote the fairy tales and legends using elements of local traditions and folklore.

In 1946 one of his fairy tales was made into a film in the Soviet film The Stone Flower . Bashov worked on the script. The same fairy tale served as a template for the ballet Die Steinerne Blume op. 118 (1950, first performance 1954) by Sergei Prokofjew . Another film adaptation was made in 1977 with Stepan's legacy .

Honors

Bashov was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1943 and the Order of Lenin in 1944 . There is a Pavel Bashov Museum in Polewskoi . In Syssert, the house where he was born is also run as the Baschow Museum.

The settlement of Baschowo in the Chelyabinsk Oblast , a district of Kopeisk , which was independent as an urban-type settlement from the 1980s to 2004, was named after Baschow .

family

The future Russian Prime Minister Yegor Timurowitsch Gaidar was a grandson of Bashov.

Individual evidence

  1. Nachbemerkung in Pawel Bashow, Mistress of Copper Mountain , Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1961, page 168 ff.

Web links

Commons : Pavel Bazhov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files