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„And Quiet Flows The Don…“
On June 1, 1965, the Soviet writer Mikhail Aleksandrowitsch Sholokhov was awarded for his main work, the two-volume Cossack epic "And Quiet Flows The Don"...
... awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...:
Sholokhov was the son of Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov (1865-1925) and his wife Anastasiya Danilovna Chernikova (1871-1942). In the following picture he is sitting in his mother's arms...:
His parents belonged to the lower middle class, his father worked at times as a farmer, cattle dealer and miller.
Sholokhov attended schools in Kargin, Moscow, Boguchar and Vyoshenskaya until 1918, when at the age of 13 he joined the revolutionaries in the Russian Civil War...:
In 1922 Sholokhov moved to Moscow to become a journalist and began to write. He had to earn his living by manual labor, so between 1922 and 1924 he was a dock worker, stonemason and bookkeeper and periodically attended writing courses. In 1922 he finished his first literary work, a short story. In the same year he published his first satirical article.
In 1928 he began work on the book that would make him famous, "Silent Don", which he did not finish until 1940.
In 1932 he joined the CPSU and in 1936 became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet. Since 1937 Sholokhov was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His work illustrates the life of the Don Cossacks.
He also became known for his work "New land under the plough", published in 1930. In 1941 he received the Stalin Prize, in 1955 the Order of Lenin and in 1960 the Lenin Prize.
During the Great Patriotic War, like so many of his fellow writers, he worked as a front-line correspondent...:
From 1961 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his main work "And Quiet Flows The Don," and in January 1966 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig, which, however, was dated on his 60th birthday, May 24, 1965 ...:
I don't want to hide the fact that Sholokhov was subjected to severe allegations of plagiarism:
According to some experts, "And Quiet Flows The Don" and "Tales of the Don" are based on unpublished writings by the Cossack military writer Fyodor Kryukov.
This accusation was expressed first and loudest by the second well-known Soviet Nobel Prize winner for literature, Aleksandr Issajevich Solzhenitsyn in 1974...:
In the 1980s, researchers such as German Ermolajew and Geir Kjetsaa used scientific methods to show that the assumption of plagiarism was rather unlikely.
It is possible that the "legend of the alleged 'plagiarism' of Sholokhov" was pursued by Solzhenitsyn as a revenge campaign against Sholokhov.
Sholokhov had played a major role in the marginalization of Solzhenitsyn as a writer who was not loyal to the system in the late 1960s.
Everything unproven!
Mikhail Sholokhov died on February 21, 1984 in the Cossack stanitsa (village) Vyoshenskaya, where a large part of his world-famous novel is also set...:
This monument also reminds of him there...:
However:
"And Quiet Flows The Don" is the absolute best book about history of the Don Cossacks in World War I and the Civil War on the book market!
Real people live and speak in the book - and anyone who, given the time and circumstances, thinks they are getting a communist stereotype here will be severely disappointed.
On the contrary: I'm always surprised with what nuances and how highly differentiated a writer in Stalin's Soviet Union could write about the Cossacks in World War I and on both sides during the civil war!
The Soviet film adaptation from 1958 (director: Sergej Gerasimov) with Elina Bystrizkaja and Pjotr Glebow was also very successful...:
Here are two excerpts...:..:
The following picture shows the author with the two main actors during the shooting in the Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya-on-Don...:
Of course, both of them are also in my figure collection...:
From 1992 to 2006, a seven-part television production was shot under the direction of the well-known director Sergej Bondarchuk ("Waterloo")...:
Here a trailer...:
On June 1, 1965, the Soviet writer Mikhail Aleksandrowitsch Sholokhov was awarded for his main work, the two-volume Cossack epic "And Quiet Flows The Don"...
... awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...:
Sholokhov was the son of Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov (1865-1925) and his wife Anastasiya Danilovna Chernikova (1871-1942). In the following picture he is sitting in his mother's arms...:
His parents belonged to the lower middle class, his father worked at times as a farmer, cattle dealer and miller.
Sholokhov attended schools in Kargin, Moscow, Boguchar and Vyoshenskaya until 1918, when at the age of 13 he joined the revolutionaries in the Russian Civil War...:
In 1922 Sholokhov moved to Moscow to become a journalist and began to write. He had to earn his living by manual labor, so between 1922 and 1924 he was a dock worker, stonemason and bookkeeper and periodically attended writing courses. In 1922 he finished his first literary work, a short story. In the same year he published his first satirical article.
In 1928 he began work on the book that would make him famous, "Silent Don", which he did not finish until 1940.
In 1932 he joined the CPSU and in 1936 became a deputy in the Supreme Soviet. Since 1937 Sholokhov was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His work illustrates the life of the Don Cossacks.
He also became known for his work "New land under the plough", published in 1930. In 1941 he received the Stalin Prize, in 1955 the Order of Lenin and in 1960 the Lenin Prize.
During the Great Patriotic War, like so many of his fellow writers, he worked as a front-line correspondent...:
From 1961 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1965 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his main work "And Quiet Flows The Don," and in January 1966 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig, which, however, was dated on his 60th birthday, May 24, 1965 ...:
I don't want to hide the fact that Sholokhov was subjected to severe allegations of plagiarism:
According to some experts, "And Quiet Flows The Don" and "Tales of the Don" are based on unpublished writings by the Cossack military writer Fyodor Kryukov.
This accusation was expressed first and loudest by the second well-known Soviet Nobel Prize winner for literature, Aleksandr Issajevich Solzhenitsyn in 1974...:
In the 1980s, researchers such as German Ermolajew and Geir Kjetsaa used scientific methods to show that the assumption of plagiarism was rather unlikely.
It is possible that the "legend of the alleged 'plagiarism' of Sholokhov" was pursued by Solzhenitsyn as a revenge campaign against Sholokhov.
Sholokhov had played a major role in the marginalization of Solzhenitsyn as a writer who was not loyal to the system in the late 1960s.
Everything unproven!
Mikhail Sholokhov died on February 21, 1984 in the Cossack stanitsa (village) Vyoshenskaya, where a large part of his world-famous novel is also set...:
This monument also reminds of him there...:
However:
"And Quiet Flows The Don" is the absolute best book about history of the Don Cossacks in World War I and the Civil War on the book market!
Real people live and speak in the book - and anyone who, given the time and circumstances, thinks they are getting a communist stereotype here will be severely disappointed.
On the contrary: I'm always surprised with what nuances and how highly differentiated a writer in Stalin's Soviet Union could write about the Cossacks in World War I and on both sides during the civil war!
The Soviet film adaptation from 1958 (director: Sergej Gerasimov) with Elina Bystrizkaja and Pjotr Glebow was also very successful...:
Here are two excerpts...:..:
The following picture shows the author with the two main actors during the shooting in the Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya-on-Don...:
Of course, both of them are also in my figure collection...:
From 1992 to 2006, a seven-part television production was shot under the direction of the well-known director Sergej Bondarchuk ("Waterloo")...:
Here a trailer...:
