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 Casket (fairy tale) The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) "The Malachite Casket" (), also known as "The Malachite Box", is a folk tale (the so-called "skaz") of the Ural region collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the several issues of the Sverdlovsk newspaper "Na Smenu!" in September—November 1938, and in "Uralsky Sovremennik" (volume 1, 1938). It was later released as a part of "The Malachite Casket" collection. "The Malachite Casket" is considered to be one of the best stories in the collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve