Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is one of the most outstanding writers of Russian Soviet literature, Nobel Prize laureate, author of the novels “Quiet Don” and “Virgin Soil Upturned”. This publication includes early stories from the 1920s, later combined into collections: “Don Stories”, “Azure Steppe”, “About Kolchak, Nettles and Others”, as well as works dedicated to the Great Patriotic War: “They Fought for the Motherland ", "The Fate of Man", "The Science of Hatred", "Essays on the War Years" are perhaps the most poignant, vivid, tragic and at the same time life-affirming texts created on the theme of war not only in domestic but also in world literature. " The main character of his works, the Finnish writer Martti Larni wrote about Sholokhov, is truth itself... He sees and perceives life as a realistic drama in which humanity plays the main role. This is one of the explanations for his worldwide fame.”