Golden Hair (fairy tale)

[5] He wrote: "I, for instance, have some Bashkir folklore in reserve, but I don't put it to use because I feel incompetent in the details of their everyday life".

[7] In 1944 the story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams and published by Hutchinson as a part of The Malachite Casket: Tales from the Urals collection.

While hunting in the steppe, a daring Bashkir hunter Ailyp meets a girl of "unprecedented beauty" sitting by the river.

[11] From the wise eagle-owl Ailyp learns that there's a place underneath Lake Itkul where Poloz is powerless.

After three years Ailyp goes back for Golden Hair, brings her to Lake Itkul and together they make a home underneath it.

[12] However the space under Itkul is viewed as the version of the pagan "Otherworld", or realm of the dead where people go after their physical death and remain there forever.

[13][14] Lidiya Slobozhaninova comments that it is no accident that Golden Hair leaves that place only occasionally, and that in the end the narrator confesses that he has never seen them after.

[14] In 1947 the Moscow Puppet Theater staged a play Tales from the Urals (Russian: Сказы старого Урала, romanized: Skazy starogo Urala) by Klavdiya Filippova, based on "Sinyushka's Well" and "Golden Hair".

The series included the following films: Sinyushka's Well (1973), The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (1975), The Malachite Casket (1976), The Stone Flower (1977), Podaryonka (based on "Silver Hoof", 1978[18]), Golden Hair, and The Grass Hideaway (1982).