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Happy Birthday, Mikhail Alexandrovich!

         On this day, May, 24, 107 years ago, the great Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov was born. Now the name of Sholokhov is one of the best-known and attractive. Both in the XX century and at the beginning of the XXI century he is still one of the leading genuine people’s writers. Sholokhov is rightly called a chronicler of his native country.

         It is a rare happy chance for an artist to become closely linked in his art with his native land, that his name has become inseparable from his Don country, its history and nature, the river of the Quiet Don glorified by him.

         To comprehend completely the art of Sholokhov you are sure to visit the Upper Don – the Sholokhov and Bokovsky districts, the “Open Air Novel” of the Sholokhov Museum-Reserve.

         According to the tradition, on the birthday of the writer – countryman, at 9.00 in the morning, the residents and guests of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya put flowers to the bronze bust of M.A. Sholokhov at the Don embankment and to his tomb in the garden of the Sholokhovs’ estate.

         Tomorrow, an all-Russian holiday of “Sholokhov Spring – 2012” is going to start. It will gather all those who know, love and value the art of the great writer.

         Happy Birthday, Mikhail Alexandrovich!

Serghey Gribanov