The house where M.A. Sholokhov was born

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was born on May 24, 1905 at the Kruzhilin khutor in Veshenskaya, Donetsky Okrug of the Don Host Oblast, now known as Kruzhilin, Sholokhovsky District, Rostov Oblast. This khutor was founded in the late 18th–early 19th century, and the house in which Mikhail lived was built in the 1870s. The building features a reed-thatched roof, windows with decorative trims, high steps, and two floors: upper and lower. The upper floor contains three rooms, while the lower floor has a kitchen and a dining room, where the family ate and carried out household chores. The khutor had a fruit garden, an annex with a bathhouse, a barn-stable, a small shop, and a granary for storing grain. Mikhail's father, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, was a merchant who bought grain from the Cossacks and also acted as a middleman in the buying and selling of livestock. In 1984 the Sholokhov house and estate were included in the Kruzhilin Memorial-Historical Complex of the M.A. Sholokhov State Museum-Reserve.