The Don Flows Home to the Sea
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The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940) is the second in the series of the great Don
epic (Tikhii Don
) written by Mikhail Sholokhov
. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940.
The novel follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks
in peace and war, revolution and civil war
. The novel depicts the destruction of Cossack society during the Civil War. Grigory Melekhov, is the protagonist. The book tells of his tragic affair with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour; and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites and the Partisans.
Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov affair
.
Don River (Russia)
The Don River is one of the major rivers of Russia. It rises in the town of Novomoskovsk 60 kilometres southeast from Tula, southeast of Moscow, and flows for a distance of about 1,950 kilometres to the Sea of Azov....
epic (Tikhii Don
And Quiet Flows the Don
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don is the first part of the great Don epic Tikhiy Don , written by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940...
) written by Mikhail Sholokhov
Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. An asteroid in main-belt is named after him, 2448 Sholokhov.-Life and work:...
. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the second half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1940.
The novel follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks were Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don.- Etymology and origins :The Don Cossack Host was a frontier military organization from the end of the 16th until the early 20th century....
in peace and war, revolution and civil war
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
. The novel depicts the destruction of Cossack society during the Civil War. Grigory Melekhov, is the protagonist. The book tells of his tragic affair with Aksinia, the wife of a neighbour; and how he fights for the Reds, the Whites and the Partisans.
Much of the novel used an earlier, unpublished story Sholokhov wrote in 1925 about the Kornilov affair
Kornilov Affair
The Kornilov Affair, or the Kornilov Putsch as it is sometimes referred to, was an attempted coup d'état by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Lavr Kornilov, in August 1917 against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky.-Background:Following the...
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