Sholokhov's biography. Briefly about the great Russian writer

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

In Soviet times every schoolboy knew the name of this writer. Many of his works were included in the compulsory program in Russian literature from the first to the tenth grades. However, Sholokhov's full biography is not taught in schools today. A brief description of his activities is given, but this is not enough to form a complete picture of the writer's personality. Many of his works fell out of the school curriculum. However, this is simply unreasonable, because most of the stories, and later more serious works written by him, contribute to the education of moral values in schoolchildren. Why are they not taught in schools? Undoubtedly, they can serve as an additional aid to history books, describing the events of past years from the point of view of an eyewitness. Sholokhov's full biography also tells about these important historical facts. Briefly tell about all the achievements of this great man, who is also the winner of one of the most prestigious awards in the world - the Nobel Prize,just 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 a merchant Alexander Mikhailovich Sholokhov and a former serf 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 Boguchar 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 publications were published about him, his biography and his works) contain the words of the writer himself: “I was born from the civil war on the Don”. This means that the paintings of this time had the greatest influence on the formation of the writer's personality.

When the Upper Don Cossack uprising took place in 1919, 14-year-old Mikhail kept all the events of that year in his memory and later described them in the novel Quiet Flows the Don. A year later, he starts earning a living. First he teaches at a rural educational program school, then he works as an accountant, and then as a tax inspector. For the fact that he arbitrarily decides to reduce the tax on the poor, he is tried, sentenced to death by firing squad. This is fate, this is biography. Sholokhov was briefly and with irony in prison called "impudent". Here he waited for hisfate. However, soon the sentence, fortunately, was commuted to imprisonment. After serving his term, he decides to go to Moscow, where he works part-time in different ways. However, in the capital, he feels an irresistible desire to write. His essays, feuilletons and stories are beginning to be published in the press. At the age of 19, he marries the beautiful Muscovite Maria Petrovna, with whom he will live until the end of his days. And a year later, having visited his homeland, he writes "Don stories" and proceeds to create "The Quiet Don", which is later published in the magazine "October". M. Gorky, after reading this work, speaks of the young writer as a talented professional. Then Sholokhov writes Virgin Soil Upturned. The happiest moment in the writer's career is the recognition of his talent by Stalin.

Patriotic war in the life of Sholokhov

With the beginning of the Patriotic War, he becomes a war correspondent. Sholokhov participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, after which he began writing the novel "They Fought for the Motherland". For his service at the front, he received military awards.

In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel "The Quiet Flows the Flows Flows the Don", and 2 years later he became a Hero of Socialist Labor. Later, the writer and publicist receives several more prestigious awards and prizes. He and his wife spent the last years of his life in their small homeland, where he died at the age of 79. That's the whole biography of Sholokhov. Brief but meaningful.