Birth: 1905-05-11
, Kruzhilin
Death: 1984-02-21
, Vyoshenskaya
Mikhail Sholokhov was a Soviet writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most celebrated work is 'And Quiet Flows the Don', an epic that narrates the life of the Don Cossacks during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Sholokhov is known for his social realism and for portraying the hard life and passions of his people.
