An artist of the creative workshop “Paleshane”, Vladimir Bushkov created the panel “Poloz the Great Snake”. It was included in a series of works which illustrated the tales of Ural writer Pavel Bazhov. This panel is based on the plots of two works — “The Great Snake” and “Golden Hair”.
Poloz the Great Snake is a generalized fairy-tale image of the guardian of Ural gold. According to legends, he could appear to people in the guise of an “enormous snake” with a human head or a man with a yellow face and thick beard, dressed “not in our way”. Miners believed that the gold mines in the rock appeared where the Snake crawled. There is a belief that if you anger the “owner”, he could take all the gold from the mine.
The heroes of the tale “Golden Hair” were a Bashkir hunter Ailyp and his beloved woman, the daughter of Poloz the Great Snake, a beautiful girl with long hair made of pure gold. The lovers tried to escape several times, but the strict father constantly dragged his daughter into the ground by her braid. Finally, Ailyp and his beloved managed to hide on a stone in the middle of the lake:
Poloz the Great Snake is a generalized fairy-tale image of the guardian of Ural gold. According to legends, he could appear to people in the guise of an “enormous snake” with a human head or a man with a yellow face and thick beard, dressed “not in our way”. Miners believed that the gold mines in the rock appeared where the Snake crawled. There is a belief that if you anger the “owner”, he could take all the gold from the mine.
The heroes of the tale “Golden Hair” were a Bashkir hunter Ailyp and his beloved woman, the daughter of Poloz the Great Snake, a beautiful girl with long hair made of pure gold. The lovers tried to escape several times, but the strict father constantly dragged his daughter into the ground by her braid. Finally, Ailyp and his beloved managed to hide on a stone in the middle of the lake:
