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You are Welcome to “Kruzhilin Toloki”

The Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov invites you for the annual literary and ethnographic holiday “Kruzhilin Toloki”, which will take place on September, 6, in Kruzhilin Village, in the homeland of the great Russian writer.

You will learn how Upper Don Cossacks built their kurens (houses) and clay-covered sheds, how they gathered altogether to help their neighbours in the work, how they trained their children in arts and crafts. The artistic and ethnographic composition will tell about the villagers of Kruzhilin who gathered for “toloki” to help a Cossack woman, whose husband was “on the active service”, to build a shed for cattle. Each guest can become a participant of the event: you will attend the village meeting, help to lay out the site for future construction, erect walls of brushwood, knead clay with straw and cover the walls of the shed with it. According to the traditions the hostess will treat the helpers to Kruzhilin dainties.

At the Museum Cossack farmstead you will try joinery, pottery, basket weaving, wood carving, spinning, knitting and coking Cossack dishes. There will be held classes of land use traditional for the upper Don: you will try to plough a plot on oxen, to thresh grain with flails, to purify it with a screen and grind flour. One can drive a tractor “Fordson-Putilovets”, which upturned the virgin soil in the 30-s, in the Vyoshensky collective farms.

The holiday program includes the performance of folk groups, horse riding, and tasting pancakes with honey and herb tea.

You are welcome on September, 6, to Kruzhilin Toloki”!