Museum Collection

The funds of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve keep over 70000 museum pieces.

The documentary fund (over 15000 pieces) contains manuscripts and other documents referring to the life and work of M.A. Sholokhov, the Don culture, social and political life, area study. Among them there are autographs, letters, notes, diplomas, maps, schemes, cuttings, etc. The most valuable things are the writer’s autographs, his correspondence, documentary records of his deputative activity.

The book fund (over 20000 pieces) includes the first editions of the works by M.A. Sholokhov and his works edited in different languages of the world, books with the writer’s autographs, books about his creative work, booklets, albums, atlases, journals, newspapers.

The fund of photo-film-audio documents (20000 pieces) keeps negatives, photographs, slides, lantern-slides, tape-records, films, video and gramophone records. The richest photo material reflects the life and creative work of the writer in different years. The art of cinema is represented by the unique collection of documentaries, feature films screened after Sholokhov’s works and videofilms about the Museum-Reserve. The audio records preserve the voice of the writer, literary radioprograms about his creative work and folk Cossack songs.

The fund of materials memorials (over 10000 pieces) contains a collection of the memorial things belonged to the writer and his wife, the area study materials, objects of the Cossack everyday life.

In the fund of fine arts (over 5000 pieces) there are paintings, drawings, sculptures created after the works and on the motives of the works by M.A. Sholokhov.

Each object is unique in its way possessing artistic and scientific value. The most part of them are displayed in the permanent expositions and travelling exhibitions.