The Stone Flower
![Vladimir Preobrazhensky as Danilo in The Tale of the Stone Flower ballet, 1 March 1954.](/Images/godic/202502/16/RIAN_archive_644727_Ballet_dancer_Vladimir_Preobrazhensky_in_scene_from_ballet_The_Tale_of_the_Stone_Flower1444.jpg")
![The Stone Flower in the early design of Polevskoy's coat of arms (1981).[43]](/Images/godic/202502/16/Polevskoy_coat_of_arms_19811444.gif")
![The current flag of Polevskoy features the Mistress of the Copper Mountain (depicted as a lizard) inside the symbolic representation of the Stone Flower.](/Images/godic/202502/16/Flag_of_Polevskoy.svg1444.png")
"The Stone Flower" (Russian:Каменный цветок, tr.Kamennyj tsvetok;IPA: [ˈkɑmʲənʲɪj tsvʲɪˈtok]), also known as "The Flower of Stone", is a folk tale (also known as skaz) of the Ural region of Siberia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov, and published in Literaturnaya Gazeta on 10 May 1938 and in Uralsky Sovremennik. It was later released as a part of the The Malachite Box collection. "The Stone Flower" is considered to be one of the best stories in the collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and several times after that.