Literaturnaya Gazeta
The Moscow critic Viktor Pertsov read the manuscript of "The Stone Flower" in the spring of 1938, when he traveled across the Urals with his literary lectures. He was very impressed by it and published the shortened story in "Literaturnaya Gazeta" on 10 May 1938. His complimenting review "The fairy tales of the Old Urals" () which accompanied the publication.