Secret legends about buried treasures and gems burning with witchcraft fire, tales of Danil the Master and the Mistress of the Copper Mountain - attracting, seductive, generous, but at the same time deadly... Perhaps all this is just a fiction of the talented storyteller Pavel Bazhov? The author of this book, Valery Nikitich Demin, is convinced of the opposite: the legends of the Urals - the priceless heritage of the Russian land - are rooted in the deepest, hyperborean antiquity. The book, discovered in the archive of the writer and philosopher, is published for the first time.