![]() ![]() Under her gaze Severian is unable to move his feet from the ground. Katerina flees and Severian is faced with a stranger who looks at him fixedly. ![]() The steward tries to take Katerina with him but the people defend her. Looking for her beloved, Katerina comes to a market and again meets Severian and his cohorts, wandering among the gypsies. Katerina drives the steward away and resolves to seek out Danila. Severian makes fun of her – "neither a bride nor a wife", and tries to win her love by force. Meanwhile, Katerina is gloomy, waiting for her betrothed who has been absent for several days. In order to retain her guest forever, the Mistress resolves to make him her mountain craftsman. She has fallen in love with the talented artist and does not wish to lose him. The Mistress of the Copper Mountain reveals to Danila more and more of the secrets of her realm. Appearing to Danila now as a lizard, and now as a "malachite maiden", the Mistress of the Copper Mountain draws him into her realm, and the stones come alive before the craftsman's eyes: their sharp facets playing, the gems glisten and a stone flower blossoms – it is Danila's dream. From the old masters, he knows that the Mistress of the Copper Mountain possesses the secret of the stone she is the guardian of underground treasures, and until Danila possesses the secret he will know no peace. Forgetting about the bowl, Severian tries to embrace the young woman to whom he has taken a fancy.Īll depart. Enraged at such impudence, the steward raises his lash threateningly, but Katerina stands between him and Danila. Dissatisfied with his own work, the craftsman refuses to hand it over. An uninvited guest arrives – Severian the landowner's steward: he demands the malachite bowl he has commissioned from Danila. ![]() In the village Danila and Katerina's engagement is being celebrated. The Ural master stone-cutter Danila dreams of creating a malachite bowl of hitherto unknown beauty and embodying in stone the delight of a living flower. ![]()
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