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The First Snow Falls in Sholokhov

"The wind blew through the brittle, prickly snow, and a silvery drizzling ground hissed through the yard" Mikhail Sholokhov. "And Quiet Flows the Don" 

The first snow fell in Vyoshenskaya ... 

In just a day, the height of the snow cover in some places was more than twenty centimeters. 

Considering that there has been no rain in the Sholokhov District since July, this is a generous gift from nature. After all, snow protects plants from freezing, saturates the soil with moisture, maintains the water level in rivers and other bodies of water. 

How beautiful the first snow is! The Don landscapes, picturesque in summer, captivate the traveler with their untouched beauty in winter: the endless steppe, wrapped in a snow-white blanket, sparkles in the sun; the majestic Don-father peacefully awaits the arrival of spring under an ice blanket, and the forests, so numerous in our area, sleep, covered with light, fluffy snow ... 

Mikhail Sholokhov in his works very often turned to the image of nature, gave descriptions of plants and animals, various natural phenomena. Only in the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don" there is more than one hundred and eighty times the mention of snow. 

Here is how Sholokhov describes the freshly fallen snow in the novel "And Quiet Flows the Don": "Grigory woke up before the light. Snow lay on the homespun coat in two vershoks. The steppe languished in the shimmering virgin blue of fresh snow, and, clear, the traces of a hare wandering along the first path were blue near the camp". 

Evgeniya Gudzenko