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Exhibition “Sholokhov’s World” in India

On 18 of October, 2017, the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve opens a new exhibition “Sholokhov’s World” to run in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in New Delhi (India). It is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and India.

The exhibition will tell the visitors about the life and literary work of the great Russian writer, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, about his public activity, the nature of the Don country and about the work of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov.

2017 is a special year for India and Russia. 70 years ago, on the 13 of April, 1947, before India became independent, the two countries established diplomatic relations, which further successfully developed and grew into a true partnership and friendship between the peoples. This significant date is marked with a number of events including those in the cultural sphere. The Russian Federation Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of India in the RF Pankage Saran signed the Program of cultural exchanges between the countries for 2017–2019.

One of the bright events will be the exhibition “Sholokhov’s World” organized by the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve and the Rossotrudnichestvo Agency in India.

Indian readers know and love the works of M.A.Sholokhov, who had always supported the idea of peace and friendship between peoples, cooperation with foreign figures of literature and art. The Secretary of the Literary Academy Krishna Kripalani in 1966, in the journal “Indian Literaturer” noted: “The name of the prominent Russian novelist Mikhail Sholokhov has been long known for Indian readers. I remember my reading a lot of his "And Quiet Flows the Don” in English in the 30s, and I was fascinated with the grand immensity of the epopee and the gift of the mature realism. All days long I lived with Cossacks and shared their thirst for life, their passionate love and hatred, their reckless courage among the horrors of the civil war…”

In 1950–1960, the works by M.A.Sholokhov were translated in India into 10 languages: Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu and Assamese. Indian literary scholars and researchers of the life and work of the great writer note in their publications a high artistry and humanism of

Sholokhov’s works, and at the scientific seminars and conferences they discuss the world significance of the work of M.A.Sholokhov.

We hope the exhibition “Sholokhov’s World”, which will run during the 18–26 of October, 2017, in the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in New Delhi, will arouse interest in the residents and guests of the Indian capital and will promote a further strengthening of cultural and friendly relations between our countries.

Irina Panchenko
Olga Bakhtiyarova