The Malachite Box nuggets. The story of the brothers is continued in "The Snake Trail" (alternative translation: "The Serpent's Trail"), published in 1939. In this "skaz", a young the factory worker Stepan meets the legendary Mistress of the Copper Mountain. He passes her tests and is rewarded by a malachite casket filled with jewellery for his betrothed, Nastyona. Stepan dies, leaving the Malachite Casket to his widow Nastyona. Their daughter Tanyushka likes to play with it. With black hair and green eyes, Tanyushka does not look like her mother at all, as if she was born to different parents. When she grows up,
Italian submarine Malachite of operations, she was attacked by an aircraft but the attack was beaten back with her anti-aircraft weapons. During the night January 27 1941 she patrolled in the Strait of Messina. From 9 to 18 February 1941 "Malachite" patrolled off Bardia. On February 14 she attempted an attack on an unidentified warship, but fails to launch torpedoes due to the high speed of the target. From 15 to 22 March 1941 she was deployed in the Kythira Strait. On the night of March 19, "Malachite" sighted a cruiser escorted by several destroyers. At 01:19 she launched two torpedoes but they