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 total circulation of about 37 million copies. "The Malachite Box" has been republished many times since then. The tales were translated into 64 languages, more than 250 editions in foreign languages were released. The list of languages include English, Hungarian, Italian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Mongolian, Chinese, Japanese, Assamese, Kannada. Four stories from "The Malachite Box" were published in the 1943 Moscow magazine "Internatsionalnaya Literatura" in English and French. In 1944 the book was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams and published by Hutchinson. Bazhov did not know about this translation and found out about it accidentally. In the