The National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve (Russian: Музей Шолохова, tr. Muzyey Sholokhova) is a museum complex in Rostov oblast, Russia which commemorates the life and work of author Mikhail Sholokhov. The main exhibits are located in an apartment where he lived in stanitsa of Vyoshenskaya, and in a house in which he worked on portions of his novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The museum complex was founded in 1984. Its collections comprise over 70,000 items. The collections occupy a complex of five historic buildings in Vyoshenskaya, Karginskaya, Kruzhilinskaya, Rostov-on-Don: khutors, villa of architect N. Sokolov, exhibition center, memorial and historical complex.[2]
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Established | 1984 |
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Location | 60, Sholokhova street, Vyoshenskaya, Sholokhovsky District, Rostov oblast, Russia |
Coordinates | 49°37′35″N 41°43′43″E / 49.626440°N 41.728746°E |
Director | Olga Anistrotenko[1] |
Website | [1] |
Sholokhov's letters, writings, documents, autographs and things are exhibited in the museum.[3] Dwellings with household plots are conserved also.[2] The Sholokhov Museum consists of: