The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals" collection. In the 1950s another translation of "The Malachite Casket" was made by Eve Manning The talented miner Stepan dies, leaving his widow Nastasya (Nastyona) and their two sons and a daughter. Nastasya becomes the owner of the Malachite Casket filled with jewellery, which Stepan got from the legendary Mistress of the Copper Mountain. Only Tanyushka likes to play with the Casket, and every piece of jewellery looks good on her. With black hair and green eyes, Tanyushka does not look like her mother at all, as if she was born to different parents.
The Malachite Box "The Mistress of the Copper Mountain" and "The Malachite Casket", was created by Dmitry Batin. Two filmstrips were released, "The Fire-Fairy" (1956) and "The Malachite Box" (1972). "The Stone Flower" was adapted for stage many times. The first ballet of the same name was created by Alexander Fridlender in 1944. The opera in four acts "The Stone Flower" by Kirill Molchanov premiered on 10 December 1950 in Moscow at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. Sergey Severtsev wrote the Russian language libretto. It was the first opera of Molchanov. The role of Danila (tenor) was sung by Mechislav Shchavinsky, Larisa