The Mistress of the Copper Mountain became a well known character from her appearance in Pavel Bazhov's collection of the Ural Mountains folktales (also known as skaz) called The Malachite Box. The Mistress appears in the third skaz, The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, and in 9 other stories from the collection, including The Stone Flower, The Manager's Boot-Soles, and Sochen and His Stones.