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Exhibition “The Fate of a Man is the Fate of the People” in the Kashari Museum of History and Local Studies

On March 22, 2017, the Museum of History and Local Studies in Kashari opened the exhibition “The Fate of a Man is the Fate of the People” dedicated to the 60^th anniversary of the story by M.A.Sholokhov.    

This is a joint project of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov and the local museum. The exhibition displays original documents and materials of the time of the Great Patriotic War and editions of the story “The Fate of a Man” published in many foreign languages.

The first to attend the exhibition were the students of the Kashari school. The children learned about the history of the work “The Fate of a Man”, where Sholokhov told about the hardships survived by the Soviet people, and here he was the first to raise the problem of the war prisoners, whose lives were deeply tragic. The children were greatly impressed with the history of the hero’s life, his unbending will to live and his fight against the enemy even in the fascist torture-chambers.

Of great interest for the schoolchildren were the letters to the author from the readers living in different parts of the country, photos, personal belongings of the writer, illustrations to the story from the collection of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov, and the war time exhibits from the Kashari Museum telling about heroism of the Soviet soldiers, who defended the Motherland from the German fascist invaders.

The exhibition will run in the Kashari Museum of History and Local Studies up to April 20, 2017.

Irina Panchenko