In Soviet times, every student knew the name of this writer. Many of his works were included in the compulsory program in Russian literature from the first to tenth grades. However, today in schools students are not taught the full biography of Sholokhov. A brief description of his activities is given, but this is not enough to make a complete picture of the personality of the writer. Many of his works fell out of the school curriculum. However, this is simply unreasonable, because most of the stories, and subsequently more serious works belonging to his pen, contribute to the education of moral values among students. Why did they stop studying them in schools? Undoubtedly, they can serve as an additional guide to history books, describing past events from the point of view of an eyewitness. These important historical facts are also narrated by the full biography of Sholokhov. Briefly tell about all the achievements of this great man, who is also a laureate of one of the most respected awards in the world - the Nobel Prize, it is simply impossible. His contribution to the development of Soviet literature, and to the formation of public consciousness, is simply invaluable.
Sholokhov Mikhail Alexandrovich. short biography
The great Soviet writer was born in 1905 on the Don, in a small farm, in the family of merchant Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov and former serf peasant Anastasia Danilovna. In 1912, seven-year-old Mikhail was sent by his parents to a parish school for boys. After studying here for one year, he was sent to the Bogucharsky gymnasium. With the outbreak of the First World War, and later the Civil War, his education was interrupted. In the book “Mikhail Sholokhov. Brief biography ”(after the writer received the Nobel Prize, many editions about him, his biography and his works were published) contain the words of the writer himself:“ I was born from the civil war in the Don ”. This means that it was precisely the paintings of this time that had the greatest influence on the formation of the writer’s personality.
When the Upper Don Cossack uprising took place in 1919, the 14-year-old Mikhail kept all the events of this year in his memory and later described them in the novel The Quiet Don. After a year, he begins to earn a living. First he teaches at a rural school of educational program of education, then he works as an accountant, and then a tax inspector. Because he arbitrarily decides to reduce the tax on the poor, he is tried, sentenced to death through execution. This is fate, this is the biography. Sholokhov was briefly and with irony in prison called "impudent." Here he was waiting for his fate. However, soon the sentence, fortunately, was replaced by imprisonment. After serving his term, he decides to go to Moscow, where he earns in different ways. However, in the capital, he feels an irresistible urge to write. His essays, feuilletons, and short stories begin to be published in the press. At 19, he marries the beautiful Muscovite Maria Petrovna, with whom he will live until the end of his days. And a year later, having been in his homeland, he writes “Don Stories” and proceeds to create “Quiet Don”, which is subsequently published in the journal October. Gorky, after reading this work, speaks of a young writer as a talented professional. Then Sholokhov writes “Virgin Soil Upturned”. A happy moment in the writer's career is the recognition of his talent by Stalin.
World War II in the life of Sholokhov
With the outbreak of World War II, he becomes a war correspondent. Sholokhov participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, after which he proceeds to write the novel “They Fought for the Motherland”. For service at the front, he received military awards.
In 1965, for the novel "Quiet Don", Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, and after 2 years he became the Hero of Socialist Labor. Later, the writer and publicist receives several more prestigious awards and prizes. He spent the last years of his life with his wife in his small homeland, where he died at the age of 79. That's the whole biography of Sholokhov. Briefly, but substantively.