Sholokhov Family House in the Kargin stanitsa

About museum

In 1910 the Sholokhov family moved to the Kargin khutor, where the writer's father served as head clerk. The house in which they lived from 1920 to 1926 was a typical early-20th-century building for Upper Don khutors and stanitsas. In 1924 M. Sholokhov brought his young wife, M. Gromoslavskaya, to the house. In this house the writer created the greater part of the 'Don Stories' and also conceived the idea for the epic novel 'And Quiet Flows the Don'. In 1984 the house was incorporated into the Kargin Memorial and Historical Complex of the M. A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve. Here you can see the room that served as study, bedroom, and nursery, the writer's desk, autographs of early Sholokhov works, and magazines of the period. Here you can feel the atmosphere in which the writer lived and worked in the 1920s.