Birthday of Mikhail Sholokhov in Vyoshenskaya was first noted no guests

the 115th birthday of Mikhail Sholokhov in Vyoshenskaya for the first time celebrated without guests. Unfortunately, because of the epidemic coronavirus infection all public events had to be cancelled, reports GTRK “don-TR”.

the day Before, on 24 may, the flowers to the monument of the writer in Rostov laid by the Governor of the region Vasily Golubev. At a ceremony in his performance there was also an excerpt from the novel “They fought for the Motherland”.

Veshenskaya several years preparing for the holiday. As the Director of the State Sholokhov Museum-reserve Olga Anistratenko, the house passed reconstruction. The wooden house where the writer lived after the war, fully restored. The operation was observed by the descendants of Sholokhov. According to the grandson of writer Alexander masters managed is to pick up those colors that were in the house in 1949.

on the day of birth of the writer in stanitsa Vyoshenskaya was always fun and crowded. Countrymen called him Grandfather, went fishing, sang songs. To him he could easily ask for help. Thanks to the help of Sholokhov in the village were water, bridge across the don, the roads were laid. His Stalin prize the Nobel laureate gave to the defense Fund, and Lenin passed on the construction of the school in stanitsa Karghinskaya.

To the end of the year in the Internet space will be an online marathon, with 115 representatives of culture and art, politics and sports, medicine will read excerpts from the novel “They fought for the Motherland”. The traditional festival “Sholokhov spring” it is planned to migrate in the fall.

Text: STRC “don-TR”