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“Garden of Russian Writers Named after M.A.Sholokhov” in the Great Writer’s Home Country

During October 6–7, 2018, a ceremony of laying a garden and planting 95 fruit trees – 60 apple-trees and 35 pear-trees – will take place in Stanitsa Karghinskaya the Bokovsky District of the Rostov Region, where Mikhail Sholokhov, the great Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature, spent his childhood, youth and began his writing career.

This event is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of foundation of the Union of Russian Writers and to the 95th anniversary of the Rostov Writer’s organization.

The planting campaign will be joined by N.F.Ivanov, Chairman of the Union of Russian Writers, delegations from the Rostov, Moscow, Tambov and other regional offices, O.A.Anistratenko, Director of the National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, Y.A.Pyatikov, Head of the Bokovsky District Administration. The seedlings will be given by the selectionists of the Federal Research I.Michurin Centre and the Michurinsk State Agricultural University, which will take part in laying the new garden in Sholokhov country as well.

The “Garden of Russian Writers Named after M.A.Sholokhov” will be planted on the left bank of the River Chir, on the territory adjacent to one of the Museum sites – “Farmstead of T.A.Karghin”– and will continue the history of revival of the famous garden which belonged to the enterprising Cossack, the owner of the mill, who early in the XX century, laid out a garden (a rarity at that time in the Upper Don region) opposite his farmstead.

For many years the Museum-Reserve has been working on restoration of the garden with old sorts of fruit trees, and at present they bear fruit. Now Michurin apple-trees and pear-trees planted by the writers from different parts of the country will grow in the home country of the author of “And Quiet Flows the Don”.

Olga Bakhtiyarova