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Congratulate Your Family with a New Year Greeting Card

On December 1, 2017, the Memorial House of M.A.Sholokhov again opens its exhibition “We Sincerely Wish You Happy New Year!” showing Soviet postcards of the 1950–80s from the writer’s personal archives. The exhibition will run until January 15, 2018.

This time the exhibition is added with the postcards from the archives of Mikhail and Valentina Sholokhov, who sent their greetings to the writer’s family from foreign countries before the New Year holidays.

During the exhibition run, the Museum workers of the department “Estate of M.A.Sholokhov” will give classes devoted to the history of the postcards and Russia for school students and all other visitors.

Already in the XX century, New Year postcards differed in great variety. They were real works of art and often became a decoration of the interior. The heyday of the postcard refers to the 1960s. Teddy-bears, hares, snow girls were the heroes of the postcards drawn by A.Kanevsky, V.Zarubin, V.Chetveryakov and other artists. They cause joyful emotions and faith in New Year's miracles. Our exhibition shows the postcards made by the artists Y.Komirants (“A Boy on the Sputnik”, 1957), S.Byalkovsky (“New 1958 Year”, 1957), V.Andreyev (“Happy New Year, Comrades!” 1954), I.Znamensky (“Little Animals Decorate the New-Year Tree”, 1959), Y.Artsemenev (“Bullfinches on a Snow-Covered Fur-Tree”, 1969), A.Katukhina-Galekh (“Children on the Sled”, 1954), V.Zarubin (“Ded Moroz”, 1982) and many others. All they are made with a great skill.

It has become a good tradition to send postcards to the families just from the Estate of M.A.Sholokhov. All the visitors of the House-Museum have a chance to send a Soviet postcard to their families, and, besides, primary students can train in developing their epistolary style. After all it is a great pleasure to receive a cordial hand written greeting card with good wishes!

Lidiya Slyusarenko
Yelena Popova