Porfiry Illarionovich Ratushny and his "Lucky Stones”
The article is about the fate and work of the Ural writer Porfiry Illarionovich Ratushny, whose work was dedicated to the Ural miners, master lapidaries, stone cutters. P. I. Ratushny began to develop this topic in the same period as the more famous Ural writer Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, and could become his colleague or compete with him, but the creative path of P. I. Ratushny ended too quickly: in 1938 he was arrested on evidence-free accusations and executed by shooting in the same year. The books left after him are now a bibliographic rarity. Also, P. I. Ratushny left behind two creative generations - daughter Larisa Porfirievna Ratushnaya and grandson - Alexei Alekseevich Ratushny, who are also given attention in this article.