Pavel Bazhov

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Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (Russian: Павел Петрович Бажов) (January 27, 1879 - December 3, 1950) was a famous Russian writer, the author of the collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket based on the Urals folklor. The collection was published in 1939. In 1944 the translation of the collection into English was published in New York and London. Later Sergei Prokofiev created a ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower based on this book. He was also the author of several books on the Revolution and The Civil War. He was decorated with an Order of Lenin and won the URSS State Prize.

The former Russian prime-minister Yegor Gaidar is his grandson.

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NAME Bazhov, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Yekaterinburg
DATE OF DEATH 1950
PLACE OF DEATH Moscow
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