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Exhibition of the Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Opened on Lipetsk Land

On February 27, 2020 Sholokhov Museum-Reserve presented at the Lipetsk Regional Art Museum the exhibition "Mikhail Sholokhov: About the Homeland, Russia, and Don" dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 115th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Sholokhov.

At the opening ceremony the First Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Lipetsk Region Andrei Timokhin, expressed gratitude to the staff of the Sholokhov Museum-Reserve for the exhibition. In response, the director of the Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Olga Anistratenko noted that the exhibition will help to take a fresh look at Sholokhov’s works and will become an incentive for a new reading of his books.

The visitors saw the works of famous illustrators Orest Vereisky, Yuri Rebrov, Victor Galdyaev, Vladimir Baklanov, Nikolai Usachev, Valentina and Leonid Petrov. The illustrators, each of whom has his own unique style of drawing, talentedly depicted episodes from “And Quiet Flows the Don”, “Virgin Soil Upturned”, “Don Stories”, “The Fate of a Man”, “They Fought for Their Country”.

Of great interest there was the portrait of Mikhail Sholokhov, created by the artist V. Dorozhinsky in an original manner: the work is handwritten and includes more than eight chapters of the novel “Virgin Soil Upturned”.

The Cossack flavor of the exhibition was perfectly emphasized by the performance of the ensemble of the ancient Cossack song “Hvartuna” (the city of Yelets, Lipetsk Region), directed by Nikolai Lukyanenko.

The exhibition will work in the Lipetsk Regional Art Museum till April 5, 2020.

Valery Emelyanov