And Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Sholokhovliterary work· published 1928
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And Quiet Flows the Don (Quiet Flows the Don or The Silent Don, Russian: Тихий Дон, romanized: Tikhiy Don, lit. 'The Quiet Don') is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine Oktyabr in 1928–1932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel.
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And Quiet Flows the Don was adapted into a 2006 television series.
Quiet Flows the Don2006 · television series · 2 min · IMDb ↗IMDb4.9With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.
