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Exhibition “Holiday Postcard to the Favourite Writer”

We invite the guests of the literary ethnographical holiday “Steed is the Dearest for Cossack. Battle Arts of Vyoshenskaya”, which is going to take place on May 6, at the Museum Stables, to visit the exhibition “Holiday Postcard to the Favourite Writer”. For the first time the visitors will be shown the Victory Day greeting postcards which came to M.A.Sholokhov from the readers living in different parts of the great country. If you like, you can buy the postcard copies to congratulate your family.

M.A.Sholokhov went through the war as military correspondent for the Sovinformbureau, the newspapers “Pravda” and “Krasnaya Zvezda”. Annually, on the eve of Victory Day, M.A.Sholokhov received a lot of congratulations and the warmest wishes from his relatives, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers, students and schoolchildren, teachers, authorities, figures of culture and art, and numerous readers. There are some of the congratulations:

“Dear Mikhail Alexandrovich! I sincerely congratulate you and your family on Victory Day and wish you good health, long years of life and a new writing success! War veteran, senior lieutenant, engineer, Andrey Trofimovich Litvinenko”;

“Our best congratulations to the writer and soldier, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, creator of the immortal images of the Soviet soldier and toiler, on the 30th anniversary of the Victory over the fascist Germany. 10th form students. Kropotkin, the Krasnodar Territory, secondary school number 47”;

“We, the “Krasnaya Zvezda”, send our cordial congratulations on the Victory Holiday to our dear Mikhail Alexandrovich!”;

“Dear Mikhail Alexandrovich, let me sincerely congratulate you on the Day of Victory over Hitler’s Germany, the 9th of May! My father died in this war near Leningrad leaving us five, and our mother. That is why I congratulate you like my father and as my favourite writer. Your books and films made after them have been read and seen many times. Especially “The Fate of a Man”. With best regards. Veniamin Chernyagov. The Kirov Region.”

Victory Day greeting postcards were especially popular in the Soviet period. They were issued in large print runs by the publishers “Pravda”, “Goznak”, “Izogiz”, “Sovetsky Khudozhnik”, “Plakat”, “Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo”, “Planeta”, and others. The authors of the postcards were Soviet artists I.Dergilyov,

S.Kazantsev, P.Chernyshov, N.Zakharzhevsky, A.Lyubeznov, A.Solovyov, R.Abramov, V.Martynov, G.Renkov, V.Voronin and others. Most often the postcards showed spring flowers, well-known monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, orders of Glory, of Great Patriotic War and the order “Pobeda”.

Everyone can buy for memory Victory Day greeting postcards, copies of those sent to M.A.Sholokhov.

During the holiday there will run an exhibition of horse drawn carriages and a personal exhibition of A.Shchebunyayev “Cossacks in the Artist’s World”.

Yekaterina Karbysheva