Sholokhov brief biography

Found inaccuracies in the description? Want to offer a photo or video to publish? The main Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovich is a writer, a classic of Soviet literature, a Laureate of the Nobel Prize in the field of literature. He lived almost his whole life on the Don, and all his works are devoted to the life of the Don Cossacks. His main work is the epic novel “Quiet Don”, where the tragedy of the Cossacks during the years of the revolution, the First World and Civil War is brutally and reliably described.

In the year, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize with the wording "for the artistic strength and integrity of the epic about the Don Cossacks at a turning point for Russia." His other novel - “Raised virgins” - about collectivization on the Don - was considered a classic of socialist realism, he was studied by all Soviet schoolchildren. The story of Mikhail Sholokhov was born in the year on the farm Kruzhilin of the village of Veshenskaya; He was the illegal son of Cossacks Maria Kuznetsova and clerk Alexander Sholokhov.

His parents got married in the year, and since that time the boy received the surname Sholokhov. He began to work at the age of 15, worked as a food and tax inspector, an accountant. Twice he was threatened with execution. In the year, Sholokhov came to Moscow, worked, engaged in self -education, published his first feuilletons. Soon he returned to the Don, married, continued to be printed in magazines.

In the year he began work on the novel “Quiet Don”. The first two books of the novel were published in the year, and the writer immediately became famous. The “Quiet Don” was completed in the year. The first volume of the novel “Raised virgins” came out in the year, and the second - only in metro, it is believed that the second volume was lost during the war and later restored.

In the years, Sholokhov becomes a living classic vailed by the Soviet government. In the post -war years, he published excerpts from the unfinished novel “They fought for their homeland”, he himself, according to relatives, burned the story “The Fate of Man”. In years, he almost completely moved away from literature, lived in his house in the village of Veshenskaya, where he received numerous guests.

M. Sholokhov died on February 21. He was buried in the garden near the house, on the high Don coast. In the year of the writer’s death, the State Museum-Reserve M. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was formed in his homeland-Laureate of the Nobel, State and Lenin Prizes in the field of literature, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Active Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the owner of the Honorary Doctor of the Law of St.

Andrews University in Scotch, Doctor of Philosophy of the Leipzig University in Germany, doctors of philology of Rostov State University, deputy of the Supreme Council of all convocations. He was awarded six orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, other awards. In the village of Vyoshenskaya, a bronze bust was installed during his lifetime. And this is far from a complete list of bonuses, awards, honorary titles and public duties of the writer.

All Sholokhov’s works became classic during his lifetime: once they were published by a common circulation of a copy in more than 90 languages ​​of the world, they were repeatedly filmed, and also turned into the opera “Quiet Don”, “Raised virgin” and the Ballet “Quiet Don”. Sergei Bondarchuk was also the director and leading actor in the film “The Fate of Man” and the director of the film “They fought for their homeland”.

All these films today are very successful with the audience. The name of Sholokhov is named a pedagogical university in Moscow, streets in different cities, as well as a grade of lilacs. The monument to the writer is in Moscow on Gogolevsky Boulevard and on Volzhsky Boulevard, as well as on the embankment in Rostov-on-Don. Many monuments are erected by the heroes and characters of the writer's works.

The sculptural composition “Grandfather Schukar” and “Nakhalonok” are located on the embankment in Rostov -on -Don, the sculptural compositions “Grigory and Aksinya” and “Schukar” - in the city of Belaya Kalitva, Rostov region, the sculptural composition “Andrei Sokolov and Vanyushka” - in the city of Uryupinsk Volgograd region. The famous monument to Gregory and Aksinya rises on the shore in the village of Vyoshenskaya and is a symbol of the Rostov region.

Mikhail Sholokhov lived in the village of Veshenskaya from a year until his death. He described it in the “Quiet Don”: “On the gentle sandbanger, above the bottom, lies the village of Vyoshenskaya ... Don Kobarzhina of the Tatar Sagaidak is bending against the village ... Vyoshenskaya - all in the back of the Zheltopeskov. A gloomy, bald man without gardens.

In the square - an old cathedral, which was released from time to time, six streets are laid out along the Don. The main objects of the State Museum-Reserve M. Sholokhov, the largest museum of the south of Russia, a particularly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation are also located here. The museum-reserve of Mikhail Sholokhov is a mega-museum, which includes unique memorial collections, ancient Cossack estates, natural monuments and landscapes, sculptural compositions that are symbols of the Rostov region.

The museum’s heart is Sholokhov’s manor in Vyoshenskaya village. It was here that the writer and his family lived 50 years of life.Here he wrote the second book “Raised virgin”, the story “The Fate of Man” and until the last days of his life worked on the chapters of the unfinished novel “They fought for their homeland”. In the farm Kruzhilinsky is a parental manor and a house in which the future writer was born, and in the village of Karginskaya you can visit the parish school, where the future Nobel laureate studied and sit at Misha Sholokhov’s desk.

And the Karginsky Mill Compound is described by Sholokhov in the novel “Quiet Don”. Every year, a literary and folklore holiday has been held in May in May in Vyoshenskaya. For more than 10 years, literary and ethnographic festivals and holidays are met in different museum territories: Vyoshensky Shermicia, Kruzhilinsky Toloki, Karginsky Fair. All these events and holidays are a story about the history, traditions, life of the Cossacks, based on his literary works.

As in the time of time, guests of the holidays are transferred to the beginning of the 20th century and are completely immersed in the passionate and amazing world of the Don Cossacks and Sholokhov heroes.