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Young Sholokhov Learners Visited Moscow

For more than twenty years the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve has been holding a contest “Our Sholokhov” which is participated by schoolchildren from Sholokhov and Bokovskiy districts. This year the nominations in the creative competition of the young Sholokhov learners were artistic reciting, arts and crafts and fine arts. The winners were entitled to perform in the Moscow open festival “Sholokhov Spring – 2010”, taking place in the cultural centre “Moscovite” of the South-East Administrative District.

The contest programs of the Moscow “Sholokhov Spring” were participated by 2671 people from Poland, Moscow and Podmoskoviye, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, Krasnodar and Stavropol districts, Tomsk, Tula, Tver, Ryazan, Novgorod and Rostov regions. Among the talented boys and girls there were those from Vyoshenskaya and Bokovskaya.

The performance of our young countrymen was worth seeing. In the contest of fine arts and arts and crafts in the nomination of “Paintings, Water-Colours, Drawings”, the work “The Azov Siege Sitting” by Alexander Kabrinets from the Vyoshenskaya school of arts took the first place. His teacher Viktor Shchetnikov is marked with a special diploma for teaching mastery.

In the same nomination for rendering the character by means of arts and crafts Vladislav Emukhvari from Stanitsa Karghinskaya (The teacher is Olga Loseva) was entitled “the contest laureate”.

In the contest of performers in the nomination of “Reciters” Yana Gurova from the Grachov school (the teacher is Valentina Stupnikova) and Artyom Zhukov from the Vyoshenskaya M.I. Platov school (the teacher is Lyudmila Ivanova) became the laureates for their heartfelt reciting the abstracts from M.A. Sholokhov’s works “Virgin Soil Upturned” and “They Fought for Their Country”.

The children were highly impressed by the walk around Moscow and the sights of the capital. They visited the Kremlin museums and the Historical Museum, attended the Church of Christ the Saviour, St. Basil’s Cathedral, the V.I. Lenin Mausoleum, the Tretiyakov Picture Gallery, the Chambers in Zaryadiye. It was the first trip to Moscow for the young travellers and they were delighted.

The days of visiting the capital flew away quickly. The children marked their farewell with throwing coins into the Moscow fountains to come back there again and continue visiting the historic places.

L. Volodina