Pavel Bazhov — Children’s Writer for the Grown-ups: On the Conflict of Editing

Abstract

The article by Mariia Litovskaya deals with the issue of text adaptions created for an adult audience to fit into the children’s reading realm. The works by Pavel Bazhov, the creator of an originally authorized history of the Ural region are discussed. Since Bazhov was viewed as “genius loci”, his “skazy from the Urals” were “rewritten” for children (with his participation in the process). The article addresses the conversion of these adult narratives into the popular texts for children’s reading.   Keywords: Bazhov, Ural region, skaz, genius loci, history of the region