Of course, it was not by chance that I was on this site. The author is the Ural journalist and historian Alexander Fedosov, and the hero, Pavel Petrovich, devoted a considerable part of his life to journalism. The book is written in the form of a collection of essays and essays; artistic fragments coexist with purely biographical ones. Moreover, the biography of perhaps the most famous Ural writer in Russia and the world is rich in unexpected plot twists and has many blank spaces.
The life of a boy from a working-class family, Pasha Bazhev (that’s right), reflected all the vicissitudes of that turbulent time: he graduated from a theological seminary, was a teacher and journalist, a city mayor and a red commander, escaped from Kolchak’s prison, organized a partisan detachment in Siberia, was twice expelled from the Communist Party, fired from work … While on forced “vacation”, he wrote the famous “Malachite Box”. In a word, 300 pages of fascinating reading await us, where every fact is scrupulously confirmed by documents and rare photographs (few people have seen the famous narrator without his equally famous beard).
Alexander Fedosov calls his co-author Bazhov’s daughter, Ariadna Pavlovna, who will be 99 in a month and who, in a telephone conversation, expressed her gratitude to the researcher of her father’s work. Where else could Fedosov have learned the amazing story that the story of Silver Hoof is based on the biography of Bazhov’s mother?
