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At the Parental Homestead of Sholokhov

In the morning of May, 22, the country folks and numerous guests of Kruzhilinskiy Village came to the house, where M.A. Sholokhov was born. Here was held a folklore holiday devoted to the 105^th anniversary of the writer. It was opened by Olga Melnikova and Marina Nikulina with the poems devoted to the great countryman. The audience was greeted by the guests from Kazakhstan – Bisen Zhumagaliyev, who knew Sholokhov in person, and the director of the Memorial M.A. Sholokhov Museum in the village of Dariyinskoye of the West-Kazakhstan Region Olga Chekanova.

At the Cossack farmstead next to the parental homestead of the Sholokhovs amateur groups performed. The audience was delighted with songs and dances by the amateur groups of the Kruzhilinskiy village house of culture, the dance group “Raspberry Jam”, the folk group “Zarnitsa” of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, the young performers of the children musical theatre “Lelyushki” and the mode choreographic group “Kapel” (“dripping”) from the Neklinovskiy District, the Rostov Region.

On that day Kruzhilinskiy was visited by the deputy governor of the Rostov Region S.G. Kurdyumov and the heads of the northern districts of the region. The director of the Museum A.M. Sholokhov showed the guests around the parental homestead of the writer, told about the history of the village, about Alexander Mikhailovich and Anastasiya Danilovna Sholokhov, about the childhood of little Misha.

Then the guests went to the Cossack farmstead, where they learned to know about the everyday life of the Don Cossacks in the XIX – early XX centuries, which were described by M.A. Sholokhov in his novel “And Quiet Flows the Don”, got interested to observe the house and a summer kitchen, an icehouse, a barn, a stable, a barn for cattle, a tool shed. This museum site affords real living illustrations for each of the pages of the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don”, which describe usual routine farmstead business of a Cossack.

During the days of celebrating the 105^th anniversary of the writer the parental Sholokhov’s homestead was visited by many admirers, school delegations, tourists from many parts of Russia and abroad.

M. Trushikhin
The photo by N. Ponomaryov