Quiet Don River

"The Quiet Don" is an epic masterpiece by Soviet writer Sholokhov who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is known as the "Cossack version of "War and Peace"". This masterpiece spans the period from World War I to the Soviet Civil War. Through the ups and downs of the Cossack young man Grigory Melekhov, it shows the flesh-and-blood souls of the Don steppe. There is both the cruelty of war in "Saber and Sunflower" and the passionate love in "Aksinia crossing the river under the moon". Through the "three swings between the White Army and the Red Army", it depicts the struggle and awakening of small and medium-sized people in the great era. The surging Don River witnessed the fierce collision between the Cossack tradition and the revolutionary torrent, and finally condensed into a soul-stirring symphony of national destiny.